Adjectif - January 10th, 2005

For the first time I can remember I have a specific future that I'm looking towards for the coming year...

• I'll be taking my second Japanese language class starting later this month. Learning a language makes me go *squee*.
  
• I intend to start electrolysis in the next month or two (or three). It will be interesting to see what reactions will be like as this will be the first time I will have shaved since I was 18.
  
• I also intend to find a therapist to start down the more official road. Not only for the practical reasons, but also because I think it will be genuinely helpful. I do dispair at the prospect of finding someone local. It seems likely that the closest I'll be able to find will be an hour or more away. (It is pretty rural where I live.)
  
• More work on the Voice. More on this in a moment...

Voice is one of those critical, often difficult and extremely personal issues for anyone transitioning. It's also one that I find especially interesting due to my interests in linguistics and language. While it was a concern for me, I wasn't too worried as I've always had a pretty good ear for the sounds of language.

A month or so ago I figured out how to produce a reasonably female-sounding voice that didn't sound like a caricature. I played some with using frequency analysis tools (which were fun, but for me, unhelpful). The voice just came to me one night while lying in bed. I'm not yet able to articulate exactly how I'm creating the voice.

In order to give myself tasks in practicing the voice, I'm going to go through my old posts and record readings of them. I'll then post the readings as comments. I suppose that once I finish going through once, I may go back and start again. It should provide an interesting view of the evolution of my voice.

[Edit: Hahaha, practice will I? Okay, so that didn't happen... and I'm not totally happy with where my voice stands today but I am pretty confident that I'll achieve it.]