I have heard as a general rule, that most people speak
about a fourth above their lowest note. That would
put me speaking at the A2 area, but I usually speak
around D3 area. I'm a baritone and when I tell people
that I sing, a lot of people have asked me if I'm a
tenor. I've tried speaking down in the more
baritonish range, but my voice tired rather quickly.
I don't think this answers anything that you asked,
but this is my experience with speaking versus singing
voice.
Trevor
--- valevanni@m... wrote:
> During last autumn, I began having voice problems
> (loss of high
> range, rigidity of /i/ and /u/ vowels...). A
> laringoscopy showed that
> my cords were swellen and reddened. Then, I began
> working with a
> speech therapist about hard onsets and troaty
> speaking. Now hard
> onsets have bettered very much, but troaty speaking
> remains.
> High range remains a dream :-(
>
> This afternoon, a laryngoscopy showed that swelling
> has gone, but
> reddening is still there (and the rest of larynx too
> is reddened).
> During this period I'm also examinating a possible
> reflux.
>
> Another thing I find changed is the speaking pitch:
> once it was about
> B3, now it's about F3 (and, when I speak, I find F3
> too tiring, too
> low!). The ent said that according to him, F3 is
> already rather high,
> because men's voices are usually in the C3-E3 area.
> He said that for a light tenor like me, F3 is right.
>
> A thing: is it possible that all male speaking
> voices are contained
> in a so narrow space (2 tones)?
>
> The ENT said that, looking my cords, my natural
> range should be about
> C3-C5 (like it was before the problem came), and I
> should try to work
> with the speech therapist (in speaking exercises) in
> the C3-E3 area.
>
> I find it strange that is good to speak on the
> lowest part of one's
> own voice: wouldn't be better to speak on the
> middle-low part?
>
> For example, you other, on what pitch do you speak?
> (in relation to
> your singing range).
>
> Vale
>
>
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