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Part of this podcast might be of interest to a few here:
"In a bonus segment recording during a live podcasting event at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Sarah first speaks with Ben Munson of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis about markers of gender and sexual orientation in spoken language and then Adrienne Hancock of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., talks about using what we know about gender and communication to help transgender women change their speech and communication style. "
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It's a lot of work
There used to be a list of around 50 male and female words, and they were taped to the side of my monitor. Speech pathologists can be helpful. Privately, I used one for about three sessions, and later the VA sent me to one. It is not easy but one's voice can be significantly modified.
It varies
To change a post-pubertal voice which is in bass/baritone can be very hard whereas if you are a tenor it can be relatively easy. Melanie of Melanie Speaks fame started as a tenor.
In my opinion it can be a greater test of trans-desire to change that than even GRS is.
When I first started training myself I would have never imagined being able to do what I can do now in such a casual fashion. I even got the Kathe Perez seal of approval, though I did not learn much from her in the two classes she gave at Southern Comfort, and she wanted to feature me on her website.