Recently I was chatting to a friend that I was helping. He was in my office and we sat and chatted about the current problem. I am a voice coach and do it for free. I have helped hundreds of guys get a deeper voice and I enjoy it. But Allan put it so succinctly, I had to share it with you here.

Allan was flipping burgers at the local franchise while completing his studies. His experience is very common for a guy with a high pitched voice. The way Allan put it, he was “tolerated” by others. He often woke in the mornings with a reasonable voice timber, not Barry White, but at least a good sounding Barry Manillow. But by 10 am he was sounding like “Screech”.

He was relaying all this to me as his voice was indeed changing and showing variations that really had no relevance to the meaning he was communicating. I found I had to consciously filter out his meaning for him and decipher, what he was actually saying and what his involuntary voice inflections were doing.

This is part of the problem. Poor communications. However the worst part is the assessments of others. Making the voice deeper improves your odds in so many ways. It is the one thing you can do about your self that will have the most dramatic long term impact. From women to job prospects, from business dealings, to important life challenges. A deeper voice seems to just tip the odds your way. This is what Allan was talking about. He was tired of just being tolerated. I didn’t blame him one bit.

When you make a humming sound, using the deepest tone you currently have, with your head dipped down, your chin to your chest, you can notice something revealing. The minute you make that same exact tone, but lift your head up high, with your chin to the sky, that same tone becomes higher.

What this shows, is that tension is the answer to a deep crisp voice. A voice box can become tense for many reasons and the resulting voice can become quite squeaky or high pitched. This has nothing to do with the size of your vocal chords. When you lifted your head in the exercise above, the vocal chords were stretched tighter, causing the sound of the tone to become higher.

Think of your vocal chords like a string on a guitar. If you have ever seen a guitar close up, you will have noticed that there is a heavy thick string at the top and a light thin string at the bottom. People like Barry White could be associated with the top thick string, and average men may be closer to the bottom thin string.

But the thing is, when you loosen even the bottom thin string, it can begin to sound very deep. Despite its thickness, even the thinnest string can sound quite deep and give a low tone if it is loosened sufficiently.

The quickest way to deepen your speaking voice is to release the tension that must exist in your vocal chords, if your voice is thin or squeaky. The vocal chords are a muscle group that can easily be conditioned and trained to relax and reverberate deeply.

The majority of men that ask how to get a deep voice are not wanting to become tenor singers or Barry White impersonators – they simply want to increase the depth of their tone as they feel that their voice is too high pitched. Having a squeaky or high pitch voice can utterly destroy your confidence, especially when it comes to girls as unfortunately most girls adore a big, strong, deep, crisp sound from a man, it literally makes them melt.

So what produces the tone of your voice? It’s the vocal chords, a small muscle group in the throat that produces sound when the air in the lungs is released and passed through those vocal chords which makes them vibrate. The sound of that vibration in your voice box is the tone that comes out of your mouth when you speak.

The difficulty a man with a high pitched voice has, is not the size of his vocal chords, but the tension of those vocal chords. The more highly strung those chords in the throat are, the more highly strung the sound they make. Learning how to relax that tension is the answer to how to get a deep voice.

Getting a deeper voice can easily be achieved with some simple exercises. Exercises that will lengthen and loosen the chords in the throat and force the voice box to become relaxed therefore providing you with a lower tone to your voice. It is simply a matter of conditioning the chords in the voice box to vibrate in a smooth deep timber.