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.

Getting a deeper, crisper timber in your voice can have a positive impact on your life. After all, life is mostly dependent on social interaction, and having a light, thin voice in a man especially, can not only be embarrassing, but socially ineffective, so here are a few tips.

1) Relax, before speaking, make sure you are relaxed. Many people who fail to have a deep crisp voice simply don’t remember to relax and that anxiety is translated into stress elements in the vocal chords. So ideally, you will always remember to think before making any words. This is a small point, because there are several reasons why the voice is strained or high pitched, but it is definitely worth keeping in mind because, even if you say nothing, sometimes it is more powerful than speaking up in a squeaky voice.

2) Eye contact gives you confidence, so always remember to make eye contact when speaking. A lack of confidence socially can lead to awkward sounding voice inflections. When your confidence is high, typically your voice will lower because you feel a greater sense of self control. This comes with good body posture, head up, and of course vocal timber control.

3) Be assertive. Not aggressive, many people confuse assertiveness with aggression. Assertiveness is controlled aggression and it is designed to give you control of your social environment. Showing assertive qualities is not always wise, depending on what the social environment is, however, being assertive approximately 10% of your social time helps allow for confidence to build, others in you and you in yourself.

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 sound your voice makes, can have a positive or negative cumulative impact on your life and your future. Having a “head voice” refers to the voice being nasal and high pitched in quality because the sound is not being projected from the solar plexus just below the chest, but is instead projected from the back of the head.

Having a consistent, deep crisp voice timber can affect your life in many positive ways because socially, people like and trust a guy with this kind of voice resonance. This is not to say having a head voice is a bad thing, but people will assign a value judgment to men who don’t have that kind of consistent quality timber.

A deep crisp voice exudes confidence and confidence allows people to trust and like you right away. This can have implications in job interviews and meeting beautiful women. It can have an impact on all manner of lifes “hoops” that people must pass through. Having that crisp, confident, deep, voice can assist greatly in helping you get what you want and need from life.

One of the causes of that nasal sound can be stress elements that creep into the vocal chords during the course of the day. Many men typically report quite a nice resonance at some points of the day, especially when they first wake up in the morning. There is periodically a chesty voice timber. But as the day wears on, the voice deteriorates quickly into that high pitched or squeaky nasal sound. This can get frustrating for many men and they would do anything to learn how to get a nice deep and reliable baritone on a consistent basis.

You may notice that some days you wake up in the morning to find a nice deep, chesty timber in your voice. You may have also had the experience of that same comfortable, quality sound completely disappear by 10 am and the voice becomes weak or even squeaky.

This happens to millions of men and the reasons are various. Many men would do almost anything to get that crisp, deep voice on a consistent and reliable basis. The quality of a nice deep voice timber is highly valued in society. How many times have we heard a woman say “his voice made me melt”

There is a disposition in people, especially in women, to like and instantly trust a guy with a deep clear crisp voice. That’s why rock stars make millions of dollars, their voice. But even in the most mundane of situations, a deep crisp voice will often make circumstances more positive and desirable when the mans voice is deep and resonant all the time.

A deep crisp voice exudes a certain level of confidence and losing that voice, most often, most men report a drop in confidence too…or is it the other way around. Could it be that a social circumstance makes you uncontrollably nervous, so much so that your confidence level drops? There are many factors that contribute to voice problems, everything from diet, lack of hormones (testosterone) psychological reaction, even the possibility that habit has made you tense the larynx creating ongoing tension. This is the case for many men that experience the phenomenon of a deep crisp voice in the morning but lose it over the course of the day. The muscle is stressed as the day wears on.