How deep is my voice?

When they speak, adult men average about 115 Hz and adult women about 199 Hz (Leung and colleagues, 2022). For a man, under about 100 Hz is deep: deeper than roughly three in four men. Bass singers often speak around 85 to 95 Hz.

No. Your browser measures the pitch of your voice many times a second and throws the sound away. Nothing is recorded, stored or uploaded, and the microphone switches off when the test ends. Only the numbers are kept, so you can share or track them.

Because your speaking pitch is what people hear. A held vowel is often higher or lower than the way you actually talk, so the test measures you reading normally and takes the median: the pitch you spend most of your time around.

Speaking pitch moves with the time of day (most voices are lowest in the morning), loudness, mood and how warmed up you are. A few hertz either way is normal. Take the test on a couple of different days for a fair picture.

Partly. Practice can teach you to speak at the lower, more relaxed end of the range you already have and with a fuller sound. It can't change your anatomy, so the gains are modest: studies of voice training report drops of one to three semitones. Our guide explains what works and what doesn't.

Yes. Phone microphones work; hold the phone about 30 cm away and read at your normal volume. A headset microphone is a little more accurate. The test filters out room noise and checks each moment of sound for a clear pitch before counting it.

No. It measures pitch, not health. If your voice is hoarse for more than two weeks, speaking hurts, or you're an adult man whose voice never dropped, see an ENT doctor or a speech-language pathologist.