Vocal Fry bye bye

[Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock]

Yup - it's right up there with the baby voice in my book. Makes it very hard to take her seriously.

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Kate

On Jul 4, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

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> Vocal fry=2C otherwise known a creaky voice=2C is not a good hiring affecta=
> tion.See http://theatln.tc/1jQQnLD   "Women using fry were viewed more nega=
> tively than men doing so=2C and the negative perceptions were stronger when=
> the listener was also a woman....They were less likely to say they'd want =
> to hire the person with the fry voice=2C mostly because they found them to =
> be less trustworthy.    One reason for this=2C the researchers suggest=2C i=
> s that women using vocal fry speak at lower pitch=2C but people tend to pre=
> fer voices that are at the average pitch and timbre for the speaker's gende=
> r.  "
> So why should lower pitch gender mistrust.  I think it's the affectation=2C=
> or practiced fakery=2C that the edgey part.  It's not genuine.
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> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now FL 12.See how Englis=
> h spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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