Comments on: How to Tell if You Have Vocal Fry (and why does it matter)

By: Nicolette Ribeiro

Nicolette Ribeiro — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:29:01 +0000

Hello, I am a research assistant at the voice lab at Nova Southeastern University. I was wondering the copyright rules of one of your above images, the one of the spectrogram of vocal fry (the vocal fry is circled in the image) I would like to use it in an academic presentation if possible. thanks!

By: Vocular

Vocular — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:23:45 +0000

In reply to Mory. Hi Mory, there isn’t actually a minimum recording length. Instead, we display a Reliability rating based on the amount of data we were able to detect from your voice. 20+ seconds tends to do the job and the frequency bands around the app button turn yellow once the sample is very reliable.

By: Mory

Mory — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 06:56:20 +0000

What is the minimum length of voice recording needed to get the analyze in your app?

By: Vocular

Vocular — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:25:19 +0000

In reply to Oblomov. Well, the academic figures are about 120Hz for men and 200Hz for women, so I'd call that roughly twice as high. But that doesn't change the overall point, that vocal fry stands out more in female voices than in male ones.

By: Vocular

Vocular — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:14:00 +0000

In reply to Oblomov. I never said that voice pitch counts more than actual results. The point is that human beings assess qualities like competence or leadership based on a range of features, and voice depth is one of them. The CEO study only showed that businessmen with deeper-than-average voices tended to earn more, it never claimed that this was more important than any more performance-based factor.

By: Oblomov

Oblomov — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:38:29 +0000

“This might be true for a few weirdos who write in to these shows, but it ignores basic differences in the way men and women speak. Female voices tend to be roughly twice as high as male voices” Female voices are not twice as high, not even on average, as their vocal folds length is 2/3 on average, roughly the distance from tenor to soprano, transposed to more average voices like high baritones and light mezzos. It translates to half an octave and it’s often quite less.
The difference is the greater use of head resonance for women and speaking more in the middle part of their range, while men tend to speak middle low, which adds to the difference, which still has lots of variation, even on same people. Now a smaller vocal tract on women also contributes to the difference in brightness and perceived height, but what you illustrate here is socialization.

By: Oblomov

Oblomov — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:24:35 +0000

That salary rise as pitch fall is bullshit, see Marchionne, as critical of capitalism as I can be, it’s not so dehumanizing to the point voice counts more than results :D, lol.