Ive been told that I speak at the wrong pitch. What does that mean?
The pitch of the voice is a perceptual judgment of the average musical note at which we speak. It corresponds in a complex way to the rate of vibration of the vocal folds. When an individuals pitch is identified as being incorrect, on a verage it may be too high, too low, or lacking in variation. (The opposite of lacking in variation would be “sing-song”, but that is rarely a problem of patients with voice disorders.) Although there are ranges of normal pitch levels for adult men and women, these normal ranges are quite wide. Therefore, it is often the case that the voice team uses clinical judgment (based upon experience with many patients) to determine whether the pitch is incorrect for a specific patient. Habitual use of incorrect pitch may be a symptom of, or a contributing factor to a voice disorder. Or the problem may not involve incorrect pitch at all, but rather incorrect resonance of the voice. Lets look at examples of each of these. The use of incorrect pitch may be a symptom
