Do you vocal fry?

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/vocal-fry-creeping-into-us-speec.html

Ladies? Anyone gonna fess up and admit to vocal frying?

Another link, for those of us that don't hang with enough U.S. teenage girls to have any clue what this is like in practice.

YouTube

Originally posted by WoodPush
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/vocal-fry-creeping-into-us-speec.html

Ladies? Anyone gonna fess up and admit to vocal frying?

I blame Autotune. It has demolished teenagers' ideas of what a natural voice sounds like.

Richard

Originally posted by WoodPush
Another link, for those of us that don't hang with enough U.S. teenage girls to have any clue what this is like in practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsE5mysfZsY

That was funny! I heard a 56 year old female executive, the president of the New York Times talk that way in an interview, it was really disconcerting. I don't think she even knew she sounded like that.