Hi, Sammie,
I've always seen feminine voice as a very important aspect of femininity and at least as big a barrier to passing as height and physique, and most of us don't have your your acting talents and training. My own acting ability is somewhere near absolute zero, inherited I think from my mother. She had a first cousin who was a well known actor who achieved fame if not fortune (he spent it all throwing parties) in Hollywood. My grandparents were keen on her pursuing some sort of career and the principal of a drama school, on discovering the relationship, was only to keen to take her on. The experience was not a success for either of them. Another cousin (legally so at least) traded on the name and relationship to set up a drama school of her own in Canada, much to the indignation of my mother because although that cousin was born in wedlock, her legal father was far away in the army at the time of her conception during WW1.
I've tried practicing while driving alone in the car, or while on the riding mower, but the results are as depressing as my original cross dressing experiments. On the other hand voice is definitely an aspect of feminisation (why does the spell checker on this board flag this and some other related words? Even changing the 's' to a 'z' or adding an extra 'in' doesn't satisfy it) which it would be nice to achieve to some extent, even if I talk only to myself.
I've always seen feminine voice as a very important aspect of femininity and at least as big a barrier to passing as height and physique, and most of us don't have your your acting talents and training. My own acting ability is somewhere near absolute zero, inherited I think from my mother. She had a first cousin who was a well known actor who achieved fame if not fortune (he spent it all throwing parties) in Hollywood. My grandparents were keen on her pursuing some sort of career and the principal of a drama school, on discovering the relationship, was only to keen to take her on. The experience was not a success for either of them. Another cousin (legally so at least) traded on the name and relationship to set up a drama school of her own in Canada, much to the indignation of my mother because although that cousin was born in wedlock, her legal father was far away in the army at the time of her conception during WW1.
I've tried practicing while driving alone in the car, or while on the riding mower, but the results are as depressing as my original cross dressing experiments. On the other hand voice is definitely an aspect of feminisation (why does the spell checker on this board flag this and some other related words? Even changing the 's' to a 'z' or adding an extra 'in' doesn't satisfy it) which it would be nice to achieve to some extent, even if I talk only to myself.