I seem to be in a good place right now in regards to the general health of my larynx. A good time to start on my voice.
I can actually sound feminine with relative ease, but there’s a catch: only with a strong regional British accent. Can I sound like a woman from Belfast? Yes! Glasgow? Absolutely! Birmingham? Yeah. Am I from any of those places? Nope!
I can also sound feminine while I’m singing, but I’m not going to go around acting like I’m in a Gilbert and Sullivan play, so I need to work on sounding like a feminine me. So I need a famous woman or character who has close to a relatively neutral RP English (leaning slightly towards Scottish but not much) and a large amount of spoken recordings like interviews and acting roles.
Any suggestions?
NB: my accent is in no way posh or plummy. Kind of lower middle class.
Honestly, my accent (despite being in Cascadia since I was eleven) has a touch of general English-from-elsewhere sound.
I figure if I leave the country on vacation or permanently, it might come in handy?
Basically, don’t fix anything. Join us, we the inappropriate-accent-for-location people.
Yeah, my normal speaking voice doesn’t sound like where I’m from in the slightest. I mean not even close. But I don’t want to adopt the accent from where I’m from, because I live in another country and noone would understand a word. I have a trans acquaintance who did adopt that accent and it was even weirder than finding out she’d transitioned. She sounds a bit like she’s someone’s gran who just got done making a large batch of treacle scones and is asking if you want her to fix you a plate of mince and tatties.