If you feel your voice doesn’t match your outward or inward appearance or identity, some individuals seek treatment to augment their vocal abilities to improve this mismatch. Pitch is not the only component that might want to be changed. Individuals might desire to sound more or less feminine, more or less masculine, or have a variety of sound abilities. Sometimes this is with cisgender individuals, and sometimes this is with transgender or nonbinary individuals.

Hormone Replacement Therapy Testosterone usually helps drop the pitch of the voice with no therapy needed, but sometimes this is not enough. Aaron Ziegler and colleagues published data on how testosterone therapy for lowering the fundamental frequency (or pitch) of a person’s voice in transgender patients is not always effective alone in achieving voice-gender congruence without voice-specific intervention additionally.

Voice sessions can focus on voice production knowledge, pitch acquisition, resonance manipulations (changing the tongue posture and laryngeal size can influence formant frequencies in the sound signal making a voice sound a certain gender)  mannerisms and non-verbal communication, on syntax and syntax and semantics, pitch as well as resonance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]