![]() Unless you’re a singer or actor, you probably haven’t gotten any instruction on how to use your voice properly. So what does your best natural voice sound like? A good voice is one that is filled with warmth and expression it should also have an even resonance that’s easy on the ears, it should carry well so people can understand exactly what you’re saying, and it should be flexible and have a wide range of natural pitches. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt had higher-pitched voices, and yet each was a memorable and convincing orator - because they made the best of their natural voices. If your voice is higher-pitched than you’d like, despair not. As one voice actor told me: “The manliest voice is the voice you’ve already got. ![]() ![]() After talking to a few voice actors and reading up on books about voice theory, I’ve learned that we’d all be better served if we spent our time developing our natural voices to their full potential, not artificially lowering them. How to Develop Your Natural Voice to Its Full Potential (And Make It a Bit Deeper, Too)Īlright, so we all can’t sound like Dean Martin, but that doesn’t mean we can’t work on developing a more pleasant-sounding voice. There’s actually a way you can deepen your voice just a bit (and I mean just a bit) without straining your voice while also maintaining understandability. There’s no point in sounding like Barry White if no one understands a word of what you’re saying. Your primary concern when speaking is to communicate. I finally gave up and just started using my normal voice. When I’d talk to people they’d lean their ear towards me and ask me to repeat what I just said. I thought I sounded like a grown-up, but nobody could understand what I was saying. I remember when I was an insecure 13-year-old, I’d speak with an artificially lower pitch. To hear and feel what I mean, speak in the lowest pitch that you can, and pay attention to where you feel the sound emanating.ĭid you do it? You felt the vibrations primarily in your throat, right? Because men usually want a deeper voice than the one they have, they’ll artificially lower it by projecting their voice from the lower part of their throat. (Researchers theorize that this, by the way, is why women prefer deeper voices they signal that a man has more T, which back in primitive times might of meant he was a stronger and more virile protector and provider.) Boys who produced more testosterone during puberty turned into men with thicker and longer vocal cords, and consequently, naturally deeper voices. As your body went into testosterone overdrive during puberty, the hormone went to work on your vocal cords, causing them to lengthen and thicken. Remember all that embarrassing voice cracking? That was your vocal cords being exposed to increased amounts of testosterone. Puberty was your magic window for developing that signature Darth Vadar voice. Hate to break it to you, but unless you can travel back in time to when you were 12 years old, there’s nothing you can do to naturally lengthen and thicken your vocal cords. So, if you want a deeper voice, you just need to thicken and lengthen your vocal cords. Longer and thicker vocal cords produce lower, James Earl Jones-like pitches. The deepness of a voice is primarily determined by the length and thickness of the vocal cords. Why You Need to Stop Trying to Sound Like James Earl Jones Instead, you just need to make the most of what you’ve got. You don’t have to have a rich baritone voice to be successful in love or life. So if you sound like Super Mario (or, God bless you, Toad), you’ll probably never sound like Sean Connery. You’re pretty much stuck with the voice nature gave you. And a strong, deep voice can make a man seem more confident and authoritative.īut here’s the deal: There isn’t much we can do to deepen our voices substantially. Women prefer men with deeper voices, and find what they say more memorable than men with higher-pitched ones. Perhaps in that moment you wished for a manlier, more pleasant-sounding voice.Ī deep, strong, masculine voice is not without its benefits. Perhaps you were surprised about how nasally or high-pitched it was, or how hard you were to understand. Have you ever listened to a recording of your voice and cringed? This article was originally published in November 2011. With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past.
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