Voice Hz Test

This voice Hz test measures the fundamental frequency of your speaking voice, the number of times per second your vocal folds vibrate, and reports it in hertz (Hz). The headline number is your median pitch: the middle value of every clear, voiced moment in your recording. If you came here asking "what is my voice frequency?", that number is the answer. The sections below explain what it means and how it compares with other adults.

What your voice test results mean

Your result shows four measurements.

• Median pitch (Hz). Half of your voiced moments were above this value and half were below. We use the median because a few cracked, squeaky or gravelly syllables barely move it.
• Comfortable range. The span from your 10th to your 90th percentile pitch. It shows where most of your speech sits and leaves out the rare highest and lowest moments.
• Intonation. How much your pitch moves while you talk, given as a standard deviation in semitones. A semitone is one step on a piano keyboard, and 12 of them make an octave. A low number means a flat, monotone delivery. A higher number means more melody.
• Voice clarity (approximate). An estimate of the harmonics-to-noise ratio in decibels: how much of your sound is clean, regular vibration rather than breath or noise. Treat it as a rough guide. Your microphone and room affect it more than they affect pitch.

How your voice Hz compares with other adults

The comparison uses the Sydney Voice Lab's 2025 normative reference sheet, which lists average conversational pitch as 115 Hz for men, with a standard deviation of 21 Hz, and 199 Hz for women, with a standard deviation of 28 Hz. Choose men or women with the toggle, and the test shows what share of that group speaks higher than you, for example "deeper than 70% of adult men".

The five bands are cut at the 10th, 30th, 70th and 90th percentiles of each group:

These cut points assume pitch is spread in a bell curve around the published average, which is a simplification. Norms also differ between studies. A German population study of 2,472 adults aged 40 to 79 found conversational averages of about 112 Hz for men and 169 Hz for women, well below the Sydney figure for women. The textbook ranges quoted by Wikipedia run from 90 to 155 Hz for a typical adult man and 165 to 255 Hz for a typical adult woman. Read your band as a rough position, not an exact rank. Our guide to average voice pitch compares these norms in detail.

How the voice Hz test works

Like any voice pitch test, it starts with a recording: about 12 seconds while you read a short passage aloud. Reading the same text gives everyone a similar mix of sounds, which makes results easier to compare.

Your browser then analyzes the audio in 10 millisecond steps with the McLeod pitch method, through the open-source pitchy library. Each step gets a pitch estimate and a clarity score. The test keeps only clear, voiced frames between 60 and 500 Hz, which removes silence, breaths and most background noise. It also drops sudden octave jumps, a common error where a detector reads a voice at double or half its true pitch. The median of what remains is your speaking pitch.

This voice hz test does not measure two things people often ask about. The first is your singing range, which needs a sweep from your lowest to your highest note. The second is resonance, the quality shaped by the size of your throat and mouth, which is a large part of why two voices at the same pitch can sound different.

How to get a clean reading

• Use a quiet room and switch off fans, music and the TV.
• Keep the microphone at the same distance for the whole recording.
• Read at your normal conversational volume. Louder speech reads higher: in the German study, men averaged about 112 Hz in conversation and 130 Hz in a raised "classroom" voice.
• Use the voice you actually talk with. Pushing it lower or higher gives a number that does not describe you.
• Take the test two or three times and go by the typical result, not the best one.

Private, free and no sign-up

All analysis happens in your browser. The recording is never uploaded, stored or sent anywhere, and you do not need an account. The test is meant for people 13 and older.

What your number does and does not say

Your speaking pitch is mostly a matter of anatomy. Adult men's vocal folds are about 60% longer than women's, which is the main reason male voices are lower, and the folds lengthen and thicken during male puberty. A high or low reading is not a grade. Research on pitch and attractiveness finds modest effects at most, and a psychologist interviewed about voice tests called the effect small.

Where to go next:

• The voicecel test shows your result on the 2023 meme scale, with friendlier labels.
• The voicecel test for women compares you with adult women, which the original meme never did.
• The deep voice test turns your pitch into a 0 to 100 deep voice score.
• How to make your voice deeper explains what training can and cannot change, before you try anything.

Questions

What is a normal voice frequency in Hz?

Adult men speak at about 115 Hz on average and adult women at about 199 Hz, according to the Sydney Voice Lab's 2025 normative reference sheet. The typical spread is 21 Hz for men and 28 Hz for women, so roughly 88 to 142 Hz for men and 163 to 235 Hz for women covers the middle 80% of adults.

What is a good voice Hz?

There is no good or bad number. Your speaking pitch is set mostly by the length and thickness of your vocal folds, which differ between people for ordinary anatomical reasons. A result tells you where your voice sits compared with other adults, not how pleasant it sounds. Research on pitch and attractiveness finds small, inconsistent effects.

Why does my voice Hz change every time I test?

Small changes between takes are normal. Speaking louder raises pitch, so a reading taken while you are excited or projecting will come out higher, and a noisy room or a different microphone can shift it too. For results you can compare, test in a quiet room at your normal volume, keep the same distance from the microphone and look at the typical result across two or three takes.

How accurate is an online voice pitch test?

Measuring speaking pitch is a well-understood task, and a clean recording gives a stable median. This test uses the McLeod pitch method, keeps only clear voiced frames between 60 and 500 Hz and drops octave jumps. The main sources of error are background noise, very quiet speech and an unusual speaking voice during the recording.

Does this voice test record or upload my voice?

It records about 12 seconds through your microphone, but the analysis runs in your browser. The audio is never uploaded, stored or sent anywhere, and there is no sign-up. When you close or leave the page, nothing about your voice is kept. The test is intended for people 13 and older.

What is the difference between pitch and frequency?

In everyday use they mean almost the same thing. Frequency is the physical measurement: how many times per second your vocal folds vibrate, given in hertz (Hz). Pitch is how high or low that sounds to a listener. The number this test reports is your fundamental frequency, often written F0, which is what people mean by voice pitch.