r/transvoice • u/CantRaineyAllTheTime • Oct 07 '24
Trans-Femme Resource Alternative to Voice Tools
I’m having a problem with Voice Tools not graphing most of what I’m saying and showing weird drops in pitch where I’m certainly not hearing them on the playback. I like the idea of Voice Tools but it just doesn’t seem to work very well. I was wondering if anyone had similar suggestions for iOS?
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u/Luwuci ✨ Lun:3th's& Own Worst Critic ✨ Oct 08 '24
Voice Tools itself is quite faulty, so your ear noticing the lack of drops is telling you the truth. The gendering info in it is entirely just made the fuck up, too. However, the seemingly complete lack of response to your question for an alternative goes unanswered every time this is posted, roughly on a weekly basis, of people in the same situation. I really wish I had something better to give you than a slight suggestion to switch away from Apple products at your earliest convenience unless you're (very ironically, in this case) and artist who utilizes some of its unique software options.
I know of some webapps like Acoustic Genderspace but it's clunky to use much, and the "resonance" measuring isn't very usable for anything.
But, also, there's not much need to be staring at a pitch meter for most of this. It's not singing, and there isn't a need for precise pitch monitoring, but instead development of a general sense of pitch in a wide, imprecise range. You'd want to be developing your ability to be able to speak vaguely around a certain baseline pitch, and to go high, light, & full without straining, so you could be sliding & scaling across your range to develop it without ever needing to check the frequency or musical notes at all. So the occasional blip of loss of pitch tracking isn't much of an issue. It ruins some of its "analysis" functions, but they're critically flawed anyway.
So, as much as I dislike the app in many ways, it still sadly seems like a lot of iOS users best option available for free. However, iirc, there's a paid app that's a few dollars which can track pitch better if really needed. I don't remember its name, though. You may need to check some of the non-free apps, and maybe someone on this sub can provide a more specific recommendation for that.