🔬 Science May 14, 2026 · Jennifer Ouellette

Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype

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Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype
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Vocal fry, aka "creaky voice," is a distinctive drop in pitch, usually at the end of sentences, associated with the speech patterns of young women in particular. Britney Spears is the go-to example of the trend, having famously used it in her 1998 smash hit, "Hit Me Baby (One More Time)," and she's far from the only one.
But what if that popular gender-based stereotype is wrong? Jeanne Brown, a graduate student at McGill University, has found that vocal fry is actually more common in men than wo

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