Combination voice therapy and surgery

Voice feminization surgery only focusses on pitch and due to Leung et al. (2018) Speaking fundamental frequency contributes to 41.6% of the variance in gender perception. So if we would only work on pitch, it wouldn’t be enough to be perceived as female. This is why voice therapy in is highly recommended.

How to find your voice

1

Voice assessment

Analysis of the voice recordings

Acoustic-spectographic measurements

Expectations voice

Use of the voice in daily life

Make a plan with your voice goals

2

voice therapy

2 weekly voice training for flexibility and a healthy voice

Train your voice goals with focus on resonance, pitch, articulation, intonation, non-verbal communication.

Since we can perfectly train your voice without surgery, we can do the whole voice training before the surgery and you can still decide if you want/need the surgery afterwards.

3

Voice surgery

Shorten the vocal folds

Reducing the mass of the vocal cords

4

Post surgery voice therapy

Voice recovery

Voice flexibility

Improvement of vocal fold closure

Improvement of mucosal wave

Singing exercises

Voice feminization with focus on resonance, articulation, intonation, non-verbal communication

(minimum 5-10 sessions recommended after surgery)