From my understanding, physically smaller people have higher voices not because of their total mass, but because during the growing process their vocal cords develop(ed) with less length. So I would not expect significant personal weight loss to correspond to a higher speaking voice in terms of frequency.
Underweight singers tend to have a more fragile vocal system that is more prone to injuries, and often a significantly decreased endurance. Maintaining a healthy weight, not being over or underweight, will set you on the path to vocal health.
On the flip side, losing weight may lighten your voice if you're a female and deepen your voice if you're a male. If you're not losing a dramatic amount of weight, likely, you won't notice a difference at all in your voice. If you were severely obese before the weight loss, you might notice more clarity in your tone.
As with the strings of a guitar or piano, when vocal folds are longer and thicker, they tend to vibrate more slowly and so produce a lower-pitched voice, whereas shorter and thinner vocal folds vibrate more quickly and thus produce a higher-pitched voice.
This is because the structure of the vocal box is smaller and it creates higher pitched sound waves and the smaller the vocal box gets the higher the pitch is going to be and the bigger the vocal box becomes the deeper the sound going to sound.
Your entire body acts as your instrument when you sing, so body size and body type play a role in how your voice sounds and functions. But there isn't a generic blueprint for how a singer should look – everyone is unique and common beliefs may not apply to everyone. Weight, height, and size can all affect your voice.
Taller people's lower airways are larger, allowing more room for vocal sounds to reverberate and create deeper-pitched tones. Not that this quality is exactly easy to hear.
Scientific studies have shown that extra fat around the face and neck can alter the shape of the throat, which in turn alters the sound of the voice. In many cases, these vocal changes are attributed to extra breaths or shorter vocal sounds that are commonly produced by those with low breath capacity.
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As adults age, the vocal cords become thinner, and the cartilage of the larynx becomes harder and less flexible, altering the voice. Aging often changes the pitch of the voice, causing it to become higher in older men and lower in older women.
The biggest changes to your voice will happen during puberty and will usually end by the age of 18. Your adult pitch is then reached 2 or 3 years later. But your voice won't completely stabilise until early adulthood. Your voice can carry on changing through your 20's, and even into your 30's.
Does body weight affect height? A 2011 study suggests that there is “no association between adult height and weight status.” But there *are* a bunch of ways that having a higher or lower weight can impact both your standing height and perceived height. Plus, “you can't eat yourself taller” applies only after puberty.
After about age 30, you start to lose muscle mass all over your body, a phenomenon called sarcopenia. Your vocal folds aren't spared from this shrinkage, Hunter says. As the muscle fibers within the folds become less bulky, your voice sounds higher.
Ectomorphs – lean singers breathe higher up in their thoracic system and tend to fall into a pan-costal breathing technique (shallow breathing). They breathe more with their rib cages than their chest. A diaphragmatic breathing technique, where you draw deeper breaths, is thought to be better for singing.
In short, yes, your body type and shape have little to do with how well you control your voice and how well you use your resonators. They can! A powerful voice comes from using the muscles in the diaphragm. With training and practice, people of all sizes and shapes can develop a strong, powerful voice.
When you lose weight, you inevitably lose some fat, including that which naturally occurs in your face and neck. And when that happens, volume in your face and neck decreases, says Nina Desai, M.D., a dermatologist in Manhattan Beach, CA. That creates skin laxity (derm speak for sagging) and folds.
Research confirms that deep voices give men an aura of power and sexual allure. Men with low, resonant voices are more likely to be perceived as attractive, masculine, respectable, and dominant.
Husky voices signal "sexual interest" and can help women stand out from the crowd, say researchers. Perhaps less surprisingly, the study found men also drop their pitch when they meet women they are attracted to.
Researchers at Aberdeen University have confirmed that women are attracted to guys with deep voices – as long as they say nice things. But it seems a woman's preferred pitch in a man's voice depends on the pitch of her own voice.
This is despite it being “spoken over” by the various other sounds that make up speech. Taller people generally have bigger lower airways, including lungs, and this extra space creates a deeper sound.
Both boys and girls experience voice changes as they grow older, but girls' voices get only a little deeper.
At puberty, guys' bodies begin producing a lot of the hormone testosterone (pronounced: tes-TOSS-tuh-rone), which causes changes in several parts of the body, including the voice. For starters, a guy's larynx (pronounced: LAIR-inks), also known as the voice box, grows bigger.
Finally, you can train yourself to raise the pitch of your voice. What you need to try do is speak with your head voice', rather than speaking from your chest. Open your mouth a little more, use more air, and push' your voice up into your head.
It may not surprise you that genetic factors influence vocal quality. After all, voice qualities are largely determined by the size and shape of your larynx, neck, throat and facial structures all determined by genetics. But the influence of environment is too strong to be ignored.
The ability to sing isn't necessarily something you're born with. You can be born with the right genetics and physiological features that put you at a better vocal disposition to become a singer, but that doesn't mean singing is innate. You have to learn how to use this vocal apparatus to be able to sing.