Honestly I wanna make a podcast but I'm so insecure about my voice
I feel you anon. I was actually more worried about that than ANYTHING else, voice reveal feels very intimate, like too much of me and it gave me pause for a while, I actually was like, who is going to play Caro? Surely not me. When I launched the podcast, I was terrified people would be like 'That doesnt sound at all like how I imagined Caro' since they already had a following from my comics. But guess what, that didnt happen!
I started out doing little live streams and stuff, getting reassurance from my listeners and that helps SO MUCH, many of them told me they already heard Caro with my voice as their voice head canon, so that also helped. I asked around for reassurance from people who loved me. And then I just threw myself out there, cuz you know what? You're playing a character. No one is looking at you. Its all imaginary. And now I don't even think about it, except when people tell me they really like the voice acting or that my voice is soothing, or that my voice is EXACTLY what they imagined.
Your podcast is your puppet, and your voice brings it to life. Don't be afraid. It's going to be better than you think.
also I dunno if this is relevant to you, but I'm going to add this in here because I have SO MANY trans and enby readers and listeners and i know voice dysphoria is real. I am not on T, but a lot of people assume I am because of how i speak (which is actually so gender euphoric for me as a person who identifies masc.) I do pitch my voice a bit physically without equipment, not much but some, and that will come natural with time whichever way you are going. You can hear the difference of me naturally pitching my voice in the Halloween Interruption episode really well. In the beginning when I'm playing Caro, I'm speaking very slightly lower than my natural tone, and when I switch characters, I'm using my Customer Service Voice which is a higher octave to achieve a more femme tone. Neither of these are terribly different, but the listener suspends their belief and their mind convinces themself that it is two very different characters. No matter WHAT your voice sounds like (trans or not) your listeners will suspend their belief and hear the character. it'll be ok, i promise. And as you listen to yourself during editing, theres a lovely possibility youll grow fond of the sound of your own voice. I did <3
