A whole course, ten minutes at a time.
Free videos and guides about voice training are everywhere, and many are excellent. What's hard is finding twenty minutes on a Tuesday night. Trans Voice Coach makes the practice small enough to actually do, and does the planning for you.
Seven stages, one after another, then round again.
76 practised days for a full pass. Days you miss don't count against you: the course moves when you do.
- 1Resonance Making your voice sound smaller and brighter, by changing the space it rings in. Sixteen days, because everything else builds on it. For example: Meow, like a small cat. Big dog, little dog.
- 2Vocal weight Lightening how thick the sound is, without going breathy. For example: Heavy or light, on the same note. Quiet, not breathy.
- 3Pitch Finding a comfortable range, not a target note, and staying there without strain. For example: The top of comfortable, not the top of possible.
- 4Intonation Letting your voice move more as you talk, so it doesn’t sit flat. For example: Flat, then not. One word changes the meaning.
- 5Articulation Lighter, more forward consonants, especially the S sound. For example: The bright hiss. S and sh, side by side.
- 6Breathiness Using a little air on purpose, and noticing when it tips into strain. For example: The sigh slide. Breathy onset.
- 7Vocal fry Spotting the low crackle at the end of sentences, and using it as a sign you’re tired. For example: Catching sentence-final fry.
Every exercise shows you the move, then talks you through it.
- The move, drawn A small looping drawing of what's changing, with a link to the lesson that explains it.
- What to do Plain instructions, written to be followed with your eyes half closed.
- How you'll know it's working So you know when it's working, not just when the timer ends.
- What to try when it isn't Tucked behind "Not working?" until you need it, like: "say them with no pause at all, so there's no gap for the pitch to drop into."
Over fifty exercises in all, plus extras on twang, vowel space and speech rate in the library.
The community's words, explained as you go.
The app uses the same terms you'll hear in voice videos and from voice teachers, with a plain gloss beside them. What you learn here carries over to everything else you read and watch.
- Resonance
- How bright or dark your voice sounds: the size of the space it rings in.
- Vocal weight
- How thick or thin the sound is: how much of your vocal folds is vibrating.
- Pitch
- How high or low your voice is. Introduced third, on purpose.
- Intonation
- The melody of how you talk: how it rises and falls.
Around the session, never in the way of it.
Learn
Short articles with drawings: what resonance, vocal weight, pitch and intonation are, how long this usually takes, looking after your voice, and finding a voice therapist.
Progress
Your first week of readings beside your latest, a calendar of the days you practised, and your streak, reported and never dangled.
Free practice
A live pitch line, for when you just want to see what your voice is doing. No exercise, no target, no score.
Then and now, out loud
Choose to keep your first reading, and at four weeks, three months, six months and a year, if your readings show a change, Progress offers to play it beside a new one. Only when you tap.
A reminder that keeps quiet
Pick a time and get one gentle nudge a day. It never says what the app is for.
Light and dark
Follows your phone, or set it yourself in Settings.
How long does this take?
Months, for most people. There's usually an early stretch where you can feel things changing, then a long middle where it's hard to hear anything at all. That middle is where people give up, and it's exactly where Progress earns its place: it shows the movement you can't hear yet.
When you get where you want to be, the app says well done and lets you go. It's built to be finished with.
Your first session takes ten minutes, and starts with a cat noise.
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