The creaky voice teens are conversing with is technically called vocal fry. You just drop down to your lowest voice and go into what s called a fry - that sort of popping sound, explained Legacy ...

You may have heard of the hot new linguistic fad that's creeping into U.S. speech and undermining your job chances. Or maybe you know it as the debilitating speaking disorder afflicting North American ...

Journalist Jessica Grose is no stranger to criticism of her voice. When she was co-hosting the Slate podcast, the DoubleX Gabfest, she would receive emails complaining about her "upspeak" — a tendency ...

Britney Spears and Ke$ha might influence dance moves and belly-shirts but now they might be influencing the way young women speak. Thanks to pop songs, young women ...

“Vocal fry” among women has been a hot topic the past few years, even getting its own feature film mention with the movie In a World. It’s an especially hot topic in the public radio world, as a voice ...

Apparently, a lot of today's young women want their voices to sound like Ke$ha or Britney Spears. At least, that's what a small new study published in the Journal of ...

Glottal inverse filtering (GIF) is a pivotal signal processing technique that permits the extraction of the glottal flow waveform by effectively cancelling the influence of the vocal tract and lip ...

"That was the first moment I felt [my voice] was hurting my career beyond just irritating a couple listeners," Grose tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Grose sought help from a voice coach in an effort to ...

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