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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0762 – How Hormones Affect Your Voice
Description: 2023.02.01 – 0762 – How Hormones Affect Your Voice  Hormones - We know how boys’ voices change as they go through puberty, but so do girls’. Testosterone and oestrogen not only affect the voice directly in the vocal folds, changing their shape and so the sounds they make, but also indirectly as the overall body shape changes. Muscles and ligaments develop which can lead to increased lung capacity and other alterations affecting breathing and resonance. For women this is not a one-off hormone flow: menstrual cycles will affect the voice directly in the larynx. During Days 24-28, a wo...