Can you deepen your voice

Buy or borrow an audio recorder. Make a short recording of yourself as you read a passage from a newspaper or a book. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Many singers and performers rely on ginger tea before a big performance.

Although there is no scientific evidence to back up the practice, many performers claim it helps them relax and can warm up the vocal cords. If can afford it, you might like to try a few speech or voice lessons. If so, talk to a speech or singing-voice teacher to see what one may suggest and the costs involved. Try singing some lower pitched songs or find a song you like and lower an octave as vocal practice.

Avoid speaking in hard, rough tones, or harshly clearing your throat. That can injure your voice, over time. Helpful 31 Not Helpful 2. Helpful 19 Not Helpful 1. Do not strain your voice by forcing sounds that are uncomfortable, such as rasping grinding your vocal cords. Helpful 29 Not Helpful 4.

If you have a high voice such as tenor, do not strain or harshly try to change your natural voice. Helpful 25 Not Helpful 7. Related wikiHows How to. How to. More References 8. About This Article. Co-authored by:. Co-authors: Updated: November 9, Categories: Featured Articles Speaking Skills.

Article Summary X To talk with a deeper voice, relax your throat and try to speak through your mouth instead of your nose. Deutsch: Mit tieferer Stimme reden. Nederlands: Met een zwaardere stem spreken. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 2,, times. My voice is now deeper than it's ever been! My voice does sometimes crack though, but that's OK.

Around my age, kids are still going through puberty, so it's cool. Thanks very much! Rated this article:. More reader stories Hide reader stories. Did this article help you? Cookies make wikiHow better. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Tyler Aaron Mar 23, Charles Price Feb 18, Your message gave me a lot to think about and practice for better speaking. I think it will help me sing better and lower as well. Doris Clifton Feb 22, The information given in this article shows that wikiHow researches to find the best, most accurate information available.

Been using it since a couple of months now, and i began with depth of hz and hz average. Going in the right direction, but slower progress than average it seems. This whole thing got my attention after a strange experience. She has always had a very creaky voice with lots of vocal fry. But it was always only parts of sentences. Suddenly during normal conversation, she dropped absurdly low in vocal fry throughout her whole sentences, and kept talking this way for maybe a minute.

I thougt i was having a conversation with Barry White all of a sudden…. I got so surprised so i didnt say anything. As a male i would have been accused for harrassment probably. She did not seem embarrassed or even aware of the situation.

If a man suddenly would speak like Mickey Mouse, he would probably be called out for it immediately though…. I began doing research online, and found out its more common among females to use this vocal quality. Speculation is that they try to sound more like men to be taken serious. I just find it sad to see yet another feminine quality tossed to the roadside in the name of equality. One question though: why does your app exclude vocal fry?

If the reality is that women now actually have registers down in Morgan Freeman territory, should it not be recognized? I agree with you, that vocal fry sounds horrible regardless of gender, and that it should be reduced to a minimum. It just sounds healthier and more pleasant without it. Hey Sonny, thanks for the nice message! Yeah, I agree with you. Somebody looking to sound more authoritative may want to lower their pitch, but dipping into vocal fry has the opposite effect, so it made sense to exclude it from the overall figure at the top.

I think the microphone on Android devices have trouble registering under 58 hz. I tried to analyze her from an interview on Youtube. Hey, sorry for the late reply.

Had a lot of jobs to do outside I live on a farm. Did you ever find where and when you bottomed out after doing the neck exercises? I plan on doing atleast one more month. The median and average is going down more than my depth strangely enough.

Some mornings im down to 80hz and 97hz respectively. Would love to keep those numbers throughout the day…. How exactly did you perform your crunches? I may be over complicating it, is it just a normal crunch with your neck tucked in and elbows out? Hello, I just lie on my bench and then lift my head from flat to roughly 90 degrees.

You should feel like your SCM muscles on either side of your voice box are doing all the lifting too. Ah I see, thank you!

I feel it right by my SCM Muscles exactly. No worries. Oh, that was nothing. How long are your breaks in between sets? I am doing minutes right now. Tis is to inform u that My voice was very thin I mean vocal tone sound is very thin when I speak with other people face to face and on cell or Mobile phone heard not normal voice or abnormal voice for that reason I am facing criticize by other people or they think I am a abnormal man not I am ok only my vocal tone sound problem.

I had visited ur website but I am not clear what I have to do? Pls advice me as a easy way or understandable way to change my voice tone. Actually this problem stop my career, honor,arise mental depression. What can I do now? May be for than reason I am lose many years and I can show my intelligency,Strenght,Creativity, self confidence and others. Hello iRobbani, well, just so I understand what you mean about your voice being thin, what Hz is your voice currently? Initially, I just lay on the floor of my dorm and did them there.

You could also just lie on a bed instead. Thank you for the app. Yeah, I mean sometimes is like 86 hz average but most of the time is 90 hz average and 80 hz of depth, the app says that is similar to Jon Hamm. Thank you for answering man. Really thankful for your fast reply, but do you think it will deepen with time or it will stay just as it is?

Hi bro, does my head need to be hanging off the edge of the bed or can I do the exercise by just lying on the bed or the floor? Hey, you can do either. Hi bro, does my head need to be hanging off to do the exercises or i just lie down on the bed and do it like that?

I will keep doing the exercises and report the results in a month. Also what can I use to put weight on my forehead? Yep, I keep a chart, I see a little fluctuation, I was just worried about doing the exercises wrong. I will start doing the exercises with weight now, I will report the results in a couple of weeks. Is there any chance your neck was quite well-built already?

Be careful not to overdo it though. Your head likely weighs between 5kg and 6kg, so an increase of 1kg is actually pretty big. I largely blamed choir for this, as I was active in that during my early years. I ended up buying Vocular off of Google Play. Reliability is Excellent at and my variance is I really need to work on lowering my voice, and plan to employ some of the suggestions here, because yeah, being mistaken for a woman every time I answer the phone, or play a game with new friends online…it gets so old.

Hi Scott, sorry for the late reply here. Good to hear from you too! Feel free to email me too, if you want to know more about any of this.

We may be adding some of these measurements to a new version of the app soon. You could use the app to check your voice though and log its changes. Hi James. I did the exercises with and without weight and I never trained my neck before.

I will keep doing the exercises to see if i find any progress. Hi Alex, thanks for reporting this. Any idea why this might be? Did you measure your voice shortly after doing the exercises? Did you take recordings at the same time each day too? Did you notice any change in your SCM muscles too? Sorry if these are obvious questions. I measure my voice before doing the exercises and at 5 pm. I do the exercises every day though. I will keep doing the exercises though to see if i have results later.

I do the exercises similar to this video but without that weight. Do you experience upper body tension at all? I have that problem some days and I think it affects my voice, makes it sound reedy and strained. I will try to do the exercises every other day and do them some more weeks to see If i have results. I will report it if that happens. Okay, maybe that explains it then.

Might be worth trying exercises with a neck harness, starting with a light weight 2. My voice was deepest when I was doing both the SCM exercises and using the harness. The graph shows 3 months of change, but my voice started getting deeper after 2 weeks. It was higher for the first week though. My voice is around average. I am a male and have nasal voice. Can I make it any better with neck and breathing exercises? Hi Jason, how old are you?

You should be able to practise speaking with your fingers on your nose and train your vocal energy lower, so it sounds less distorted by the blocked nasal cavity. I always had a problem with allergies, flu and blocked nose when I was little. These problems have improved since the last few years.

I also have bad posture rounded shoulders and forward head … I have doing these exercises for neck and some exercises for shoulders for a week now. My posture have become a lot better. So I suppose this will help me too. My voice can already go down to about 62 hz without straining too much. Will this work to go even lower? Hey bro could you upload a video doing the exercises?

Hi Matt, yeah, this video shows how I do them actually. Can you not just speak in a slightly higher voice? I can use the pitch tracker on the app and speak with a voice Hz higher at will. Initially Hz, although I was already breathing diaphragmatically by then. Hey Miles, I think that broadly comes down to the size of their vocal cords. Some men just have just have shorter or thinner vocal cords, which is why I tend to talk about getting a deeper voice, rather than a deep one.

There are psychological factors too — some guys talk with a higher voice just out of habit or adopt bad posture which puts a strain on their voice. Also, a lot of nasal voices are low-pitched but people perceive them as being high-pitched e.

Richard Ayoade. Thank you for your response. Just another question, how much time were you doing the exercises and noticed that your neck was bigger? Good question. The only thing I can say is that I had a tuxedo shirt which ended up so tight I would leave the top button undone until the last minute because it felt like it was stopping the blood from getting to my brain. That used to fit comfortably too. Best way to relax your SCMs is to strengthen your neck and relieve upper body tension, which can be caused by bad posture, a bad exercise routine, stress, etc.

You should notice after a hot bath, your voice gets deeper. Would the exercises and hydration make a significant difference in my case? I might give it a shot though and see if I can get down to 50Hz.

I also have a solid monotone with minimal vocal fry. And I got a hz of It can get very annoying so I have to basically yell all the time. Hey man, yes I know this really well, I have totally same problem. My voice is hz. Iam unable to talk loud, my loudest yell is about 50 db. It took me some time to get used to it, but now, I dont see it as problem. About month ago, I got hurt. I was not able to speak, my larynx was blocked with some shit. Not a nice story. It took me 2 weeks to get from it.

I must say, Iam happy that I can even speak :D. Also, corpse has channel on youtube, a lot of people talk about his voice nowadays. Would it suffice to only do neck crunches, or should I be doing a variety of exercises to strengthen different neck muscles I assume crunches primarily work on the SCMs?

Is the deeper voice that results from these exercises permanent or does it need to be constantly maintained with continued neck exercises? If I really concentrate of taking a deep breath and speaking from my belly, so to speak, I can produce a nice, rich, lower tone…. Can you relate to this at all?

Hi Mike, sorry for the late reply here. Oh yeah, I can definitely relate. I think upper body tension has something to do with it. Thanks for your reply. This is truly astonishing! Good job! It makes me wonder if most females have the physique and ability to habitually speak in average male register. I mean men speak at the bottom of their register and women in the middle. Is it just habit? I suspect it has to do with the fact that we have been handling plastics, eating birthcontrol pills and other drugs and medicine, eating processed food with unnatural additives, breathing exhaust fumes and drinking water with heavy metals in it for the last 70 or so years.

The lines between genders are dissapearing more and more. Another little detail i have noticed, is that in old photographs and movies you never ever see a woman with a prominent adams apple. This has definetly changed over the last 40 years or so.

Nowadays its pretty common to see women with this attribute. This would correlate with the drop in voice depth probably. This is also why the male voice drops so suddenly during puberty — testosterone lengthens and thickens the vocal cords, so the frequency falls from the s to the s. I believe testosterone is also lower in men with higher life satisfaction although men get a boost in T when they win a contest. Testosterone is actually lower is pre-industrial societies too.

Do you mind if I ask how you did it? Clears up everything. Hello, ideally, I do them once every two days and I do 3 sets of 20 reps, so 60 head lifts in total. I tend to do them at night too because they can make your neck feel uncomfortable if you do them early on and then have to work at a desk or something like that. Hi Steve, I noticed a change straightaway — my voice was higher for about a week.

My neck felt different after a couple of days too. Good article! How about an unethical and unhealthy tip? Cigarette smoking, I believe this works by causing edema in the vocal cords. Do you have any studies on this? I was young n had a wonderful angelic voice. When puberty stroke me it bcam raspy and everyone pointed it out.

I then had to squeeze and tighten my vocal cords unknowingly. I tried the neck exercise and i noticed sum subtle changes. I mostly immitate deep voices and it really amaze me but it strains me more. How would you help me speak with a constant deep voice at least the one I obtained as i continue with the exercise.

Do you have any say on this as a vocular? Hey man. I am 14, almost fifteen. I have a normal voice, average in my school, however I want a deep one. Chances are, you know about Corpse. If not, look him up on YouTube. I love his voice. I really want a deep voice like his. Do you think I can do it or wait till 20 or something?

Corpse is 23 and has gerd a medical condition that damages his vocal chords , he also is forced to speak fairly quietly listen to how close he is to his mic , and has a HUGE amount of vocal fry that also affects to depth of his voice. Feel free to do the exercises and try to add some depth to your voice. In terms of deepening your voice, how deep is it now?

But also, during puberty, your voice falls from Hz to somewhere around Hz on average. So it might just be worthwhile waiting, maybe tracking your voice once a month.

If i was to do 6 sets of the neck rep thing would it make the process quicker or make my voice deeper and would it be bad for my health? Never tried 6 sets, but generally with lifting weights I stick to 3, so I did the same thing here. I only really look at the numbers. In terms of vocal fry, a certain amount of it is unavoidable.

Median also determines how low you can get with the musical pitch I believe. Greatest basses usually have less than 60med or so. How is your progress going by the way? Progress with the app is going pretty well. How long will it take to get a deep voice? I am And if I follow these steps, will I get a fry range voice? What that did for me is make them get used to vibrating every day and for long periods of time which by default made them thicker and more resistant. However, note that my voice was in the countertenor range before 12, then it lowered to somewhere to the normal vocal range of a teenager with cracks and all that, but as I said I did hurt my voice for quite a bit before I realized what was happening, which by default lowered it to about 90 hz and weakened it, and it took some time to repair it.

Once you got them down you can focus on maintaining it and going lower slowly. What exercises are you referring to in your 4th paragraph? The ones that you say got your voice down to F1? Hi there! Hi Kai, sorry for the late reply. You caught quite late over here in the UK. Is there an example of a voice which would be ideal for you?

No worries! Generally more on the masculine side, but not incredibly deep sounding. I plan on asking my doctor about possible ways I could safely lower my voice and whether these exercises could work or not, but I did want to get your opinion first, since you did write the post. Thanks for replying anyways though!

Did your morning voice also become deeper, or was it like the difference between your morning and day voice which became smaller? What if my voice depth is about 59 Hz while the highest one is 77Hz is that considered as deep voice or its just my coincidence to think that it is? My voice depth is htz and I am 24 years old. Do you have any recommendations to make it deeper.

Wow, from to Do you recommend a neck harness over the regular neck crunches by the way? This is where you should focus on speaking from. Learn how to breathe from your diaphragm.

Breathing from your diaphragm as opposed to your chest will make your voice both more powerful and deeper. When you breathe, your stomach should rise, and your chest and shoulders should remain still. These are full, diaphragm breaths. Speak from the diaphragm. You want your breath to come from your diaphragm, and go out through the part of your face you identified in step one. Practice this often, saying anything you like, but focusing on these two parts of your body.

You will notice that you can get more power in your voice with less vocal strain, resulting in a louder, deeper voice. Keep practicing. At first, breathing this way will feel unnatural and you'll probably switch back to your normal way of breathing and speaking often.

But if you practice for a couple of weeks, as often as you can remember, eventually it will become second nature. Learning to breathe from your diaphragm is one of the easiest ways to naturally improve your voice. Method 2. Start speaking from your stomach instead of your throat. Consciously lower your Adam's apple by slowly swallowing, the last movement of a swallow before your throat goes up is the position you want.

Another way is to lower the back of your tongue into your throat. This sounds difficult but play around with it till you find something that works. Start off slow. If your close friends or family suddenly hear you go from a 1st soprano to a bass you're going to be found out and have decongestants thrown at you. In conversation say a few words at the beginning and end of a sentence in a lower tone. Just be subtle. Be careful, and reign it back if you start to feel serious strain. Lower the end of your sentences.

Whenever you find yourself speaking and you've forgotten to try to consciously lower your pitch, just take a deep breath, clear your throat, and finish whatever you were saying with a lower voice.

Ending sentences with a high pitch indicates a question, therefore, consciously lowering the end of your sentences will help you sound more confident. Practice consciously lowering your voice for a while till it becomes habit. Like any other habit, you will forget often at first. With enough practice, what once was a conscious habit will become something you do unconsciously.

The only key is to continue consciously speaking in a deeper tone until it becomes natural. Method 3. Decide whether more costly options are right for you. Depending on your reasons for trying to deepen your voice, you might decide that it's worth pursuing options that cost money. Voice training and surgery are two of these options, both with large potential for success. If you want a lower voice to improve your confidence or social or dating life, you may want to stick to the slower but safer and cheaper options.

Look into voice lowering surgery. The documentary Do I Sound Gay? There is, of course, another reason why a man might want to change the way he speaks: studies have shown that women tend to be more attracted to men with deeper voices quite possibly for the same outdated-but-prevailing reasons. While it is impossible to permanently change your voice without medical intervention, there are a range of exercises that men can practice in order to speak with a deeper pitch, although their implementation is dependent on the individual and their specific goals.

Raval advises that anyone looking to recalibrate their tone or vocal register should first seek the guidance of a speech therapist or voice coach, in order to avoid accidentally damaging the vocal folds. It's possible that the way you usually breathe is having an impact on the way your voice sounds. Try inhaling deeply through your nose, bringing the air all the way in and as far down as possible; then, while exhaling slowly, say something.

You should feel a vibration as you speak. This technique—popular among singers and actors—might be able to help you control the pitch of your voice. We've all, at some point, idly blown bubbles through a straw into a soda or milkshake.