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Fun fact of the day:

The pitch of your voice is determined mainly by 2 factors– your vocal cord length and their tension. The tension affects the speed at which your vocal cords vibrate, producing different sounds.

We can't rly change the length on our own, but we can affect the tension.

If you're aiming for a lower pitch, you want to relax the cords, not quite fully loosening it. You want to relax the muscles in your throat, allowing your vocal cord to vibrate more slowly, resulting in a lower pitch.

Obviously the opposite is true if you want to achieve a higher pitch.

Basically, when you're sick your vocal cords swell with inflammation. So they kinda become thicker in a sense. You know how on a guitar the thicker strings have a lower sound to them? The same concept comes into play here. Thicker strings/cords vibrate at a lower frequency, which gives you the low pitch. It also helps that the mucus adds some friction to the cords giving it a more raspy sound.

If you want to get a lower sound like that in everyday talk you can do vocal training :) There's a lot you can look into but here's some things that helped me:

1. Diaphragm Breathing

You want to focus on breathing from your belly (not the head, throat, or chest). Put your hands on your stomach & breathe in through your nose. As you breath in you want your stomach to move out. When I was in vocal lessons they had me try this laying down with a heavy book on my stomach so I could tell easier.

Most people speak using shallow chest breaths, which tenses the neck and raises vocal pitch

2. The Invisible Yawn

Take a big breath in through your nose then start to yawn with your mouth still closed. You should feel the back of your throat open up. It should feel wide and your tongue should drop.

This creates a larger space in the vocal tract. A larger space acts like a larger speaker cabinet. It amplifies lower, darker frequencies

3. Humming

Put your hand on your chest. Take your diaphragm breath again and then hum. Keep humming and lower the pitch of your hum. Your hand should feel the vibrations.

This is to help your voice have more resonance and get it out of your throat and head

4. Speak Slowly!

A lot of times we speak fast and that raises our pitch subconsciously. Stay slow take breaths and it'll be easier for your cords to relax and you can be more intentional with your pitch.

Hopefully some of these help!! Also disclaimer I am not a vocal trainer, I'm just a transmasc med student who took vocal classes.

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