An organized collection of Selene Da Silva’s clips

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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

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Ear training and general explorations for vocal size.

Direct explorations (short and to the point):

These clips can help you if you’re struggling to separate size from other qualities.

Weight

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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).

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.

Clips on volume and pitch:

Fullness

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‘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.

Purity

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‘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.

Clips on nasality & knödel (think Kermit/Meatwad for examples of knödel-ey voices):

Personality

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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]

Clips on pronunciation, an important personality feature:

Masculinization

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Lectures and explorations specifically focusing on masculinization.

Other

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Useful clips that don’t quite fit into any other category.