#voiceanalysis — Public Fediverse posts

Query

Any being have any experience of a free audio tool (offline or online) that can analyse a voice recording from an uploaded file or an online source (like YouTube) to produce a frequency range?

We ask because we are trying to answer questions raised by our new voice coach ahead of our second initial assessment with them on 31st July, and part of answering requires us to determine how our ideal voice might sound.

The problem is that we simply do not know what our ideal voice would sound like.

What we do know is that:

• We wish we had the voice we would have had if we hadn't gone through an androgenic puberty from age 10.
• We have lost (or never picked up) most distinguishing features of the local accent where we have lived all our life (barring university).
• We do not want any kind of stereotypical "uwu" or "anime girl" voice.

We'd like to analyse the pitch ranges of voices of people whose voices are gendered fem but do not maintain the kind of stereotypical pitch range that many trans fem folks aim for.

The kinds of voices we find appealling in others are those of:

• Hannah Fry - e.g., the doorbell for fish
• Amelia Tyler - e.g., Baldur's Gate 3 - narrator's outtakes 3
• Claudia Black - e.g., Claudia Black for Dragon Age III

etc.

We can't tell you why we like such voices, as we lack the understanding, analytical skills, and terminology to describe them.

We've managed to do some frequency analysis in Audacity¹, but it's not particularly easy to analyse and compare, and Audacity only exports to text.

Any suggestions? 🩷

#voice #VoiceAnalysis #VoiceTraining #VoiceTherapy #trans+ #TransFem #transgender #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+

¹ Analyze > Plot Spectrum > Algorithm set to Spectrum, Size set to 16384, Function set to Rectangular Window, Axis set to Log Frequency