I say in the article. It corresponds to how breathy a voice is.

Sorry, I didn’t get it. Younger men participated in this specific experiment that’s why they got a lower average(110Hz)?

Oh, no, I didn’t realise you’d linked to a paper (weirdly that’s the first one I ever read). I was just saying that I took the average 120Hz from a bunch of papers, like an average of their averages. I have them all in a file so I can pick them out if you want? They all have quite low participant numbers though, so it’s not surprising that the average wavers a lot. The Re et al 2012 paper had 32 participants, so I could see how that might not be representative of young men in general.

Does that mean as we age our voices get higher?

I think they tend to get lower actually, although not by much (5-6 Hz). I’m not sure how much of that is down to people doing things like smoking which unnaturally deepens the voice. But I haven’t seen a big study of average voice pitches by age, so I can’t say for sure.

Also off topic,How deep is your voice rn?Did it stabilise?Are you doing any exercises these days?

I’ve actually just got back into doing the neck exercises recently. I had a shoulder injury for parts of the summer, so I stopped doing them for a while and, having housemates, I’d often forget to do them at night or have a few beers then go straight to bed. I’ve probably been doing the routine seriously for three weeks now though. I can hear that my voice is definitely deeper, although I’m not sure of the exact figure (it’s 9AM here at the moment so I’ll take a reading in the afternoon and let you know).

My voice never exactly stabilised though. It got deeper and less changeable, as you can see in the graph on the homepage – but I never felt like there was a point when I didn’t have to do the exercises anymore. And it went back to normal when I injured my neck and had to stop for a few months. Now that I’m doing the exercises again, my voice seems to be deepening more quickly though – another guy who writes to me has noticed the same thing in himself.

I’m kinda curious bout this topic since we have been studying larynx in my science class and they say its size can’t be changed.

That may well be true but, like I say in the Q&A, the depth of your voice comes from the size of your vocal chords and their tension. It’s literally just like a guitar string. This is why your voice is deeper when you have a cold – your larynx doesn’t change (to my knowledge), but your vocal chords become swollen and get bigger. It’s also why your voice is higher when you’re dehydrated – that lack of water literally shrinks them. My theory with the neck exercises is that they somehow allow your neck muscles to relax, which removes tension from the vocal chords. Not sure how physiologically valid this is, but I don’t have a better explanation and it’s what Morgan Freeman says too…

There’s this muscle called thyroartenoid muscle that lowers the pitch by relaxing the vocal cords.
So wouldn’t doing exercises that specifically make them stronger have a larger effect on voice?

Uhh, maybe? I don’t really know. I didn’t think the neck exercises would work until I tried them out. I’ve kinda been experimenting on myself and seeing what happens…

Are you doing the exercises these days?How deep is your voice now?
Did your voice get stabilised now?Like no more increment or decrement?

What do your think would happen if you stopped doing the exercises for a while?Increased pitch or remains same?

Soz for the many q,but thought since you have already experimented we can gain valuable data.

Sorry, Kinda found out this site through your app yesterday.I don’t have any issues with my voice(I’m at 103Hz) but getting it deeper won’t harm lol tho the topics itself makes me much more interested.

Hey,Thanks for the reply.
Sorry, I didn’t get it. Younger men participated in this specific experiment that’s why they got a lower average(110Hz)?
Does that mean as we age our voices get higher?
Also off topic,How deep is your voice rn?Did it stabilise?Are you doing any exercises these days?
What’d you think would happen after not doing the exercises(neck) for a while? Will it get higher pitched again?
I’m kinda curious bout this topic since we have been studying larynx in my science class and they say its size can’t be changed.

Hey Ignis, yeah, I take that figure from a number of papers that give the average pitch of the male participants in experiments. It might be skewed somewhat by the fact that younger men tend to participate in these experiments, but the guys who download this app tend to be fairly young so in a way it’s more specific.