An organized collection of Selene Da Silva’s clips
If you’re new to this model of voice, it’s a great idea to read this in-depth explanatory guide and listen to the clips linked below before continuing to the rest of the archive. The guide provides important context and will help you navigate this resource more efficiently.
The main building blocks of the perceptual model are size and weight. These are the primary features of the voice that you’ll modify, with the goal of altering the degree of expressed androgenic development of the voice.
In order to achieve a more typical feminine sound, you’ll want to aim for a smaller size and a lighter weight, while keeping them in balance. The opposite goes for masculinization: you’ll aim to increase the percieved vocal androgenization by targeting a larger size and a heavier weight while keeping them balanced. If you’re on testosterone, you’ll be able to achieve greater masculinization.
These following clips explain size, weight, and their interactions (fullness):
After you’ve become familiar with size, weight, and fullness, it’s a matter of exploring them and finding a configuration that is both comfortable and nice to your ears. If you’re getting discomfort or odd qualities such as nasality, the Purity section is where you’ll want to go.
Additionally, personality-expressing features also matter a lot for gendering voices. These clips below act as an introduction, and more in-depth ones can be found in the Personality section.
More information on these topics can be found in their respective sections.
Remember that you’re not actually supposed to listen to every single clip in this archive. Aside from the essentials above, you’re completely free in regards to the clips you choose. Go at your own pace and don’t feel like you have to rush things or understand all the material immediately.
Size
Ear training and general explorations for vocal size.
- Size v2
- Size
- Venicebitch size explorations
- justanobody69 hello towards fullness
- A/B test
- underfull to full
- tongue out ah size change
- size isn’t about gender
- /i/ scaling
- /i/ scaling towards overfull
- Loche size change to full hw
- justanobody69 scaling size on a phrase
- tongue out size stuff
- size scaled /i/ -> other vowels
- fry explorations
- domo size/”opc”
- ???
- oni size lesson 6/15
Direct explorations (short and to the point):
- hello size
- hello super light
- inflection and size
- broad non-gendered size change
- large to small
- alvin meow stuff
- pivoting from one size to another
- scaling on /m/
- size scale /e/
- andrea hw julia child
- fry scale a
- falsetto -> modal through size change
- hollow/falsetto -> full
- scaling polysyllabic words
- static phone, changing size
- voiced velar fricative moment
- B3 light weight into size scale
- tongue out lordtritun
These clips can help you if you’re struggling to separate size from other qualities.
Weight
Vocal weight is separate from pitch, and it can be thought of as a spectrum of roughness and softness. Loudness is also correlated with weight, but it’s possible (and quite useful) to be loud yet light (or low yet heavy).
- weight
- weight monika
- heavy to light
- light weight low pitch
- increasing weight with a static pitch
- pitch slide weight exploration
- aww into sustain
- candle blowing
- faenomenal weight explorations
- falsetto start
- light airflow /s/ light weight
- light weight but not whispery
- gradient from falsetto -> modal with weight
- ascending in pitch with heavier weight?
- B3 light weight exploration
- ugne b3 practice
- Oni Weight lesson 6/2
These clips can help if your voice is “breaking” or if you can’t access higher pitches with ease. Also see SOVTEs under the Other heading.
- abducted vs adducted falsetto
- abducted vs adducted falsetto impact on size
- Adduction explorations
- aDducted vs aBducted falsetto
- Addressing yodels/breaks/bifurcation events
- Assessing yodel range
- Strategies to address yodel/break/bifurcation
- aBducted low shit
- adducted falsetto
- adducted vs aBducted falsetto
- “m2” two ways
- connected F4 practice
- abduction and rasp
- induce yodel from above
Clips on volume and pitch:
Fullness
‘Fullness’ is essentially the balance of size and weight; the closer they are to each other, the more typical and “full” the sound is. Large size and heavy weight go together, while small size and light weight go together. If the size and weight aren’t in balance, one’s voice may sound atypical and/or cartoony.
The clips below cover theory and explorations across the range of fullness.
- Fullness
- size + weight
- exaggerated size vs weight
- twang fullness clarification
- lighter from overfull
- overfull underfull full
- hollow to full and 4210k
- twang
- poopeater lol underfull -> full
- extreme opposite size/weight targets
- identifying overfullness
- Does falsetto sound fake?
- falsetto is hollow often but not always!
- falsetto isn’t bad
- mechanisms are a meme
- falsetto is a meme
- “falsetto”
- u/happyfleece puberphonia demo
- smaller + lighter target
Purity
‘Purity’ (or ‘clarity’, or ‘efficiency’) is an umbrella term for vocal qualities that tend to be atypical or undesirable (such as nasality, breathiness, constriction, and some others). The clips below mainly cover breathiness and constriction.
- xion focus and clarity
- purity
- breathiness
- cst weight breathiness stuff
- breathy vs efficient demo
- slide up to B3, but be careful to avoid air leak!
- diagnosing constriction/effort on size change
- wigwoo “airy” but not “breathy”
- wigwoo 2: electric boogaloo
- efficiency explorations with ari
- clarity comparison
- trex fry
- fry vs fvf diagnosis
- fry airflow stuff
- rasp on weight, size, or pitch change
- Oni efficiency lesson 6/22
Clips on nasality & knödel (think Kermit/Meatwad for examples of knödel-ey voices):
- nasality intro
- nasality exploration
- nasality vs overfullness
- nasality vs overfullness
- differentiating nasality and orality
- nasality on size change
- size change without nasality
- fran drescher nasality
- nasal vs oral sounds and pinching the nose
- nasality vs overfullness fran drescher
- knodel size change
- knodel examples
- oni lesson on avoiding knodel and nasality
Personality
Below are demonstrations on ‘personality-expressing features’, which are responsible for communicating one’s gender expression (among other social traits) independently of their physiology. This is part of how you can get feminine male voices and masculine female voices; it’s just a matter of tuning body feautures and personality features.
[This section was previously named Speech]
- Personality-implying features vs body-implying features
- personality-implying features vs body-implying features vol. 2
- static personality-implying features, changing body-implying features
- body-implying features, then personality-implying features
- femme personality without size change
- body-implying features -> personality-implying features
- body vs personality gay voice loading333
- accent stuff
- personality shift
- up-talk
- Dynamic variation
- prosody
- fluidity vs angularity femme/masc
- peppy pitch contour
- pitch fluidity vs angularity for u/smollbabyboi
Clips on pronunciation, an important personality feature:
- pronunciation impact
- vowel shift
- vowel replacement
- vowel stress and precision
- pronunciation change
- masc vs femme pronunciation examples
- u/jayfire129 pronunciation
- pronunciation overview
- consonant pronunciation
- vowel modification
- vowel modification vol. 2
- pronunciation
- consonant articulation
- “i don’t fuck with that shit man” vowel shift
- large pronunciation change
- personality bias
- Does pronunciation impact gender perception?
- “mexico” sharpness change
- “loch” dull to sharp
- sharpness vs dullness, isolated size
- small and dull to large and sharp
- /ɹ/ words, playing with sharpness
- /l/ sounds, playing with sharpness
- sharp vs dull + size and weight
- small dull to sharp
- mia sharpness
Masculinization
Lectures and explorations specifically focusing on masculinization.
- masculinization overview
- Vaan masculinization lesson 7/30
- Kimonka Masculinization Intro
- hyponasality in trans masc voices
- trans masc weight stuff
- elikilifili masc tips
- increasing size, then adding weight, aiming for full
- underfull -> full masc
- overfull -> full masc
- masc size change examples
- masc weight change examples
- masc fullness, two approaches
- masc pronunciation
Other
Useful clips that don’t quite fit into any other category.