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NOTE: This is an open discussion. Auditions and puppetry are not available at this time. This discussion is all about my techniques - how I do my girl voices. This is my story!

When it comes to voice work and puppetry, I work on my girl voices, not just guy voices, but when I do a girl voice, I first start off with singing notes La la la seven or eight notes up and stop at that point and drop the singing to make it sound like speaking. Then I make it high and bouncy to sound like a real girl (I sound like a 15 year old or a 21 year old girl), but I try to make it higher and squeakier while speaking in the same pitch. And I can do other things with that voice, like make it higher (childlike) or lower (adultlike), same pitch, different octaves. That is how I do different girl voices.

At some point, I get a sore throat (laryngitis)
- when I keep practicing or working on it in one day
- when I do other voices, and then my girl voices
- when I do my girl voices without water or hot tea
- when I speak in the same pitch but not make it bouncy
It sounds like a high pitched male in such cases. It should sound feminine. Because I work on my girl voices and I should get the hang of it [I should experience it for a long time; I should get the feeling of doing the same girl voices]. Because the more I practice, the better I will be.

I have learned to do these girl voices from other men who taught us and they are good at it, except my techniques came from my way of thinking and putting it in practice. New ideas (or alternatives) from these tutorials. And that is how I do my girl voices for a guy with a low pitch voice. Any male can do the same thing. If you want to try, then I encourage you to try it.

I work on my girl voices to be a good voice actor and a good puppeteer (someone who works with puppets, like Jim Henson before he died, like the puppeteer who played with Gordon "ALF" Shummway (Alien Productions), like Sheri Lewis on Lamb Chop before she died, like James Kemp on YouTube with his puppets, you get the idea. But I have my very own puppets and I give them their own voices. Some of them calls for girl voices, the rest call for guy voices, and high pitched male voices, it is based on their appearances. An idea will hit me).

The girl voices I do are somewhat important. If I had no voice actress or female puppeteer to help me, then it makes me want to put it in practice.