As your body went into testosterone overdrive during puberty, the hormone went to work on your vocal cords, causing them to lengthen and thicken. Remember all that embarrassing voice cracking? That was your vocal cords being exposed to increased amounts of testosterone. Puberty was your magic window for developing that signature Darth Vadar voice. Hate to break it to you, but unless you can travel back in time to when you were 12 years old, there’s nothing you can do to naturally lengthen and thicken your vocal cords. So, if you want a deeper voice, you just need to thicken and lengthen your vocal cords. Longer and thicker vocal cords produce lower, James Earl Jones-like pitches. The deepness of a voice is primarily determined by the length and thickness of the vocal cords. Why You Need to Stop Trying to Sound Like James Earl Jones
Instead, you just need to make the most of what you’ve got. You don’t have to have a rich baritone voice to be successful in love or life. So if you sound like Super Mario (or, God bless you, Toad), you’ll probably never sound like Sean Connery. You’re pretty much stuck with the voice nature gave you. And a strong, deep voice can make a man seem more confident and authoritative.īut here’s the deal: There isn’t much we can do to deepen our voices substantially. Women prefer men with deeper voices, and find what they say more memorable than men with higher-pitched ones. Perhaps in that moment you wished for a manlier, more pleasant-sounding voice.Ī deep, strong, masculine voice is not without its benefits. Perhaps you were surprised about how nasally or high-pitched it was, or how hard you were to understand. Have you ever listened to a recording of your voice and cringed? This article was originally published in November 2011. With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past.
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