Deep voice still sounds like a kid

[Swagetti]

I don't exactly sound high but I am on the deeper scale. I'm 15 and can grow a decent mustache and hair near the ears are coming in so I am guessing I am nearly done :/

The thing is when I speak I have a "raspy/grunting/lazy" tone. It still sounds like the exact time someone breaks their voice. I am almost done physically growing according to my tanner stage (like 4.5-4.8) but I really hope this isn't the voice I get stuck with.
Does your voice develop separately? Like can someone grow facial hair and etc but have their voice deepen last?

How long did it take for your voice to fully develop? And when did you start? My voice breaking a few months before turning 13 was my first puberty sign then everything else came.

[Jaffe]

Mine started to change when I was 14, finished when I was 15. It took forever. At least 6-8 months if I remember it right. It was in the middle of everything else.

[Swagetti]

Dang this sucks. I guess I should be done by now since I started at 12.. Can you imagine a typical adult with your voice? My voice sounds raspy and monotone as hell.

[Jaffe]

Actually I sound a lot like my dad, now. Not quite, but kinda.

Maybe thats just your voice? But you could ask your doctor, maybe something happened to your throat at some point. They could at least check it.

[Swagetti]

Hmm. Now I remember. I had some sort of throat problem since I was 9 until 14. I felt something was stuck in my throat and I was CONSTANTLY grunting to try to clear my throat. For some reason I never got to get that checked up. Thanks for the help!

[TylerK]

Well you can grow up and have a high-voice, look at this podcast and listen to Jordan Gilbert's voice (Guy on the right, you'll be able to tell by his voice). Just listen for like 20 seconds, Jordan sounds like a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPFhL_g5Mo

[Hermes]

Voice change usually happens around the time of peak skeletal growth. There are also two parts to it:

1. You larynx grows. This means the basic pitch (fundamental) of you voice becomes lower.
2. Your face grows. This changes the size of the cavities in your head which reasonate and amplify certain frequencies in your voice.

These two happenning at slighly different times can cause your voice to sound a bit weird for a short while. It can also account for a different perception of your voice on the telephone compared to face 2 face as telephones don't transmit the fundamental frequency.

If you are hoarse, though, I wonder if you are trying to make your voice do something extreme. You should talk at a pitch that is comfortable.

You could try a recording, like TylerK did.

Well you can grow up and have a high-voice, look at this podcast and listen to Jordan Gilbert's voice (Guy on the right, you'll be able to tell by his voice). Just listen for like 20 seconds, Jordan sounds like a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPFhL_g5Mo

I think there are a couple of things going on in this video clip:

1. Proximity effect. Those two microphones are likely to be cardiod polar pattern. That means as you get close to them certain frequencies are emphasised. The DJ has his mouth right up to the mic which would give his voice extra depth, though in this clip it has also given it a muddy sound. The interviewee, Jordan Gilbert, is further back from the mic and the effect would not be so apparent on his voice.

2. I can definitely hear lower frequencies in Jordan's voice which is a sure sign he is not a little kid but his vowel formants seem a bit higher than average. This goes back to the thing about face shape. I am guessing as a singer he would be a tenor rather than a baritone (most men are baritones). I do wonder if he has the beard to make sure people realise he is a man, or just because it has become a bit fashionable.

[TylerK]

I think there are a couple of things going on in this video clip:

1. Proximity effect. Those two microphones are likely to be cardiod polar pattern. That means as you get close to them certain frequencies are emphasised. The DJ has his mouth right up to the mic which would give his voice extra depth, though in this clip it has also given it a muddy sound. The interviewee, Jordan Gilbert, is further back from the mic and the effect would not be so apparent on his voice.

2. I can definitely hear lower frequencies in Jordan's voice which is a sure sign he is not a little kid but his vowel formants seem a bit higher than average. This goes back to the thing about face shape. I am guessing as a singer he would be a tenor rather than a baritone (most men are baritones). I do wonder if he has the beard to make sure people realise he is a man, or just because it has become a bit fashionable.


Jordan is just a guy with a super high-pitch voice for behind his age. He is 24 but he sounds like he is 12-15 on the internet. Look up any videos of Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert, he sounds the same in all of them. Some think it's because he smoked weed when he was 15 (which was true), and that might have screwed with his voice.

[CuriousConner]

Everyone's voice changes in different degrees

[Alot8]

My first voice crack happened at 14 and now I'm 15 and it's really deep.

[Bluebyrd]

There's no specific order in which you go through puberty so you still have time for your voice to break.