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

[icyfroth]

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

[bright.ton42]

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.  

[lionrose.7]

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.

[bright.ton42]

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

but she's not married.  

[soul_art]

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

[lionrose.7]

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

[*elizabeths-mum*]

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

[poddster]

I wonder how that translates to typing ?

[poddster]

Could it translate to voluminous verbosity I wonder?

[meh_too]

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

[icyfroth]

ha ha god they're funny.