Femininizing Speech in Trans Women through Twang and Medialising Techniques
Thursday 21st August 2025, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (London Time)
To feminize transwomen's voice and communicative expression involves knowledge and understanding of what contributes to a feminine-sounding voice.
Related to the trans womens' desires and needs, we form an explorative cooperation during voice and communication training. There are several methods and techniques to gain feminine-sounding voice. In this course, twang and medialising will be in focus. This evidence based presentation includes two steps:
1) The first involves learning the techniques, and..
2) learning to speak with natural speech sound.
Britt Bøyesen is a Speech and Language Therapist, educated in the University of Oslo. She has worked with voice and voice disorders for 25 years. She has lectured at several universities, in Speech and Language Therapy and voice disorders. Britt has an MA (cand musicae) from the Norwegian Academy of Music. She has singing pedagogy education from Bergen Conservatory of Music and Barratt Due`s Institute of Music. Britt has been working with professional voice users.
For the past 8 years, she has had a specialization in voice and communication in trans women. She has published the study Using Twang and Medialization Techniques to gain Feminine-Sounding Speech in Trans Women (Bøyesen and Hide, 2024). Britt presented the study at PEVoC (Pan European Voice Conference) in Tallinn. She also held a workshop at PEVoC in Ghent where she interactively demonstrated the techniques of twang and medialising, as well as talking of strategies for generalization to spontaneous speech. She has participated in an interdisciplinary project; Speech and Language Therapy and Music Therapy, which was developed for gender diversity people.
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Britt Boyesen
Britt Bøyesen is a Speech and Language Therapist, educated in the University of Oslo. She has worked with voice and voice disorders for 25 years. She has lectured at several universities, in Speech and Language Therapy and voice disorders
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