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Women Using 'Vocal Fry' To Sound More Authoritative, Secksy

icyfroth — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:07:16 GMT

A NEW trend has emerged in the way young women speak and it has speech therapists worried.

'Creaking', also known in the US as 'vocal fry', is when a woman lowers her voice so much that you can hear each individual vibration of the vocal folds.

The habit has become common among young female women, although it isn't clear why.

Professor Andrew Butcher from Flinders University has a few theories.

"It used to be the case that it was breathy voice that was thought to be attractive in a woman. That was the sexy, attractive type of voice quality and now it seems to be the opposite," he said.

"Breathy voice is not closing your vocal folds properly and creaky voice is not opening them properly.

"I don't know whether it's a question of wanting to sound more authoritative, more masculine or more attractive. I'm not a young woman so I can't say. Who knows how these things start."

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Sami and Yumi on the Mix breakfast show use it a lot. I find it a bit annoying.

Click Here To Hear What It Sounds Like

Re: Women Using 'Vocal Fry' To Sound More Authoritative, Secksy

spotweldersfriend — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:01:02 GMT

Those wacky Yanks.They like everything deep fried.

Re: Women Using 'Vocal Fry' To Sound More Authoritative, Secksy

lurker17260 — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:06:26 GMT

I know a woman who does exactly that. Drives me nuts too.
She is very bossy and knows EVERYTHING! She does the eye rolling thing as well. aarrggggghhhh

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tulip*place — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:11:18 GMT

Not sure exactly what is sounds like...

but think Tammy May from the My Budget ad and Sophie Faulkner have it.

Re: Women Using 'Vocal Fry' To Sound More Authoritative, Secksy

icyfroth — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:13:00 GMT

@tulip*place wrote:
Not sure exactly what is sounds like...

but think Tammy May from the My Budget ad and Sophie Faulkner have it.

does the link not work?

I couldn't check it here on my work computer.

Re: Women Using 'Vocal Fry' To Sound More Authoritative, Secksy

lurker17260 — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:18:44 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
@tulip*place wrote:
Not sure exactly what is sounds like...

but think Tammy May from the My Budget ad and Sophie Faulkner have it.
does the link not work?
I couldn't check it here on my work computer.

It worked for me.

Re: Women Using 'Vocal Fry' To Sound More Authoritative, Secksy

spotweldersfriend — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:18:58 GMT

Works for me.

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polksaladallie — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:00:46 GMT

It has been a concern for medicos for a long time.

I've heard the women who use it described as having man envy.

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lionrose.7 — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:04:34 GMT

Nearly as bad as women who talk Baby talk all the time, drives me crazy

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icyfroth — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:44:26 GMT

The nasally thing too.

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bright.ton42 — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:06:26 GMT

That's a really entertaining vid Icy, and I know exactly what she means. I didn't know it was

called Vocal Fry though. It's sort of the opposite to how a friend of mine talks, she is 40 but talks

in this high little girl squeaky voice.

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lionrose.7 — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:28:21 GMT

Bright I know someone like that, it happened when she got married LOL

I had not seen her for a few years and I as so taken back at how she talks now, that high little girl near baby talk voice.

Drove me mad.

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bright.ton42 — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:55:01 GMT

Lion I was going to say maybe it's the same one I know, lol,

but she's not married.

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soul_art — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:05:31 GMT

Well there ya go. A girl at the jewellers does it, a girl at the bank does it...AAAARGH!!!

yes, it sounds sooooo bad, like finger nails down a black board. Last time I spoke to the one at the jewers I was really tempted to suggest she see a speech therapist to fix her "broken" voice lol

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lionrose.7 — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:16:37 GMT

Bright I was thinking the same thing LOL just as well may have been a OMG moment 🙂

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*elizabeths-mum* — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:23:14 GMT

It makes me think of Kath and Kim when they are the women in the designer kitchen wares shop. 😄

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poddster — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:35:39 GMT

I wonder how that translates to typing ?

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poddster — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:37:22 GMT

Could it translate to voluminous verbosity I wonder?

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meh_too — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:06:11 GMT

terry biviano speaks like that. watching that wag show a couple of years ago, i thought what accent is that? irritating to listen to

Re: Women Using 'Vocal Fry' To Sound More Authoritative, Secksy

icyfroth — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:10:25 GMT

ha ha god they're funny.