Voice Pitch

[nnoooooooopppeee]

Hi, I'm 14 (nearly 15) and almost everyone I know around my age has a deep voice but as far I can tell my voice hasn't changed. I think I'm average concerning everything else (Hair, Penis Size, Height, etc...). Just wondered if/when everyone else had their voices break.

[thekidd_dub]

your voice is one of those thing that you may not notice yourself but other around you may notice because when my voice started changing around sophomore year in high school I was the last one to notice my friends would tell me it got deeper but all I knew was that it would crack every now and then

[West Coast Sheriff]

My voice has always been more or less high pitched. It's just gradually deepened over time. I notice if I'm taking to a girl my voice is higher than if I were talking to a guy.

[ska8er]

U have a lot of time yet to have ur voice
deepen. It will happen when u least know
it. It may be cracking and u dont hear it.
With me when I would read things in front
of my class the girls would snicker and I
wondered y until a friend told me I was
squeeking.

[nnoooooooopppeee]

Thanks for all the replies, it never really breaks or cracks it just sounds high pitched and most people tell me I sound like a girl.

[ska8er]

Thanks for all the replies, it never really breaks or cracks it just sounds high pitched and most people tell me I sound like a girl.

That's the way I sounded but in a little
time it changed. I didn't realize it until
my friend and I were doing a challenge
on You Tube and I heard how I spoke.
It freaked me out but girls told me they
liked it-that it was hot.

[eric2001]

I'm like you. My voice is slightly deeper than maybe last year but not that much.

[Ragle]

My voice sometimes sounds like a rusty grater.

[Vermilion]

I really wouldn't worry your voice will deepen with time :) my voice broke at like 11

[nnoooooooopppeee]

Yeah it feels like it will never happen. Just wish I could wake up one day and have my voice at least start to break ��

[Vermilion]

Yeah it feels like it will never happen. Just wish I could wake up one day and have my voice at least start to break ��

I'm sure it has broken a bit. You can record your voice and listen to it and see what you think.

[nnoooooooopppeee]

Argh! I can't stand listening to myself on tape!! I hate being recorded or taped for exactly this. Not just wether or not my voice has broken but I feel like I talk a bit weirder than other people, like slurred words (slightly).

[Sanchez16620]

My voice is and always had been deep were all different and change at different rates

[Bluebyrd]

If you've noticed no change at all, expect some soon.

[jockeyboy97]

Before my voice changed I sounded like a girl, one day my Mom's girlfriend from work called our house and I answered the phone and she says "hi Alice" and I had to say this is not Alice it's Tony. True story and I was more pissed than embarrassed. So yes your voice will change just give it a little more time.

[Hermes]

Thanks for all the replies, it never really breaks or cracks it just sounds high pitched and most people tell me I sound like a girl.

When you say like a girl do you mean a girl your own age or a little girl, like 8 years old or younger? Girls voices change too, though not by as much, so if your voice pitch is similar to girls your age then yours has already changed a bit and will continue to change more.

It may also be worth deliberately varying the pitch of your voice and here's why. When you speak (or sing) your brain is controlling the pitch either directly or indirectly by controlling the tension on your vocal folds.

If, out of habit, each time you go to speak you use the same amount of tension on your vocal folds then as your larynx and vocal folds get larger your voice will naturally drop and the process may be so smooth you don't really notice. This would be indirect control - the brain sets the tension and the pitch is whatever it happens to be.

On the other hand the brain may try to set the pitch directly, i.e. you may have an unconscious memory of a certain pitch and your brain applies whatever tension is needed to get that pitch in the same was as when singing and attempting to sing a certain pitch. In this case, over time your larynx and vocal folds enlarge and the tension required to maintain that pitch increases. During that time, despite the fact the physical changes are happening your voice pitch does not change. Eventually you get to a point where the pitch you are accustomed to speaking at is no longer possible (at least in normal voice) and you may have a period of cracks and squeaks (from flipping into head voice/falsetto) after which your brain probably settles on a pitch about an octave lower than before and it then seems your voice has changed overnight.

If you're in this second category it can help to deliberately explore. Stay away from anything that seems uncomfortable or which appears to make your hoarse.

In my case I wasn't much aware of the pitch of my speaking voice though at the end of the first year of secondary school (12 y/o) I went back to my primary school for a visit and someone there commented that my voice had changed. I sang (and still do) and what I did notice is that I had new, lower notes at the bottom which appeared over a period of time and higher notes that had once been easy were not as easy.

[nnoooooooopppeee]

When you say like a girl do you mean a girl your own age or a little girl, like 8 years old or younger?

Yeah, just a like a little girl.

If, out of habit, each time you go to speak you use the same amount of tension on your vocal folds then as your larynx and vocal folds get larger your voice will naturally drop and the process may be so smooth you don't really notice. This would be indirect control - the brain sets the tension and the pitch is whatever it happens to be.

On the other hand the brain may try to set the pitch directly, i.e. you may have an unconscious memory of a certain pitch and your brain applies whatever tension is needed to get that pitch in the same was as when singing and attempting to sing a certain pitch.

I'm not sure which of these apply to me, sometimes I feel like I speak in different registers and vocal ranges when speaking towards different people, but then again I'm not sure if my voice has started to deepen at all (in contrast to it being deeper but still speaking at the same pitch.) as I've not seen any signs of changes, i.e. an Adam's apple or being able to put on a deep voice.

[Pichu]

My voice is still super high compared to my friends too, but it has gotten deeper since I started puberty.

Just give it time, man, it'll catch up to everything else c: