Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it!

Dr Geoff Lindsey • July 16, 2023

Dr Geoff Lindsey

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Business Inquiries: [email protected] Hi! I want to share the fascination and fun of speech, language and accents, and I'm so grateful to anyone who feels able to support this work via my Patreon. I studied at University College London and got my PhD at the University of California Los Angeles. I've taught at universities including UCL, Edinburgh and Cambridge, published research in many areas, and worked as a forensic analyst. I've given invited lectures and workshops around the world. I wrote the influential 'English After RP' (Palgrave Macmillan), and my blog contains over a hundred audio-illustrated articles. I'm co-editor of the free searchable online pronouncing dictionary CUBE. I've also worked in film and TV as a screenwriter and director. I wrote the screenplay and arranged the music (performed by Lang Lang) for the animated fantasy Magic Piano, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination.

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Thanks so much to anyone who feels able to support my channel 🙏🙏🙏 https://www.patreon.com/c/drgeofflindsey Patrons get access to my videos ad free! Go to https://www.piavpn.com/drgeofflindsey to get 83% off Private Internet Access with 4 months free! -- An exploration of vocal fry: what it is, who does it, what it means–and why some people hate it! 0:00 Introduction: what is vocal fry? 2:17 Is vocal fry used at the end of sentences? 6:30 Teens and rich people who don't give a ****? 8:40 Vocal fry and glottal stops 10:56 Vocal fry from males 11:20 Vocal fry in other English accents 12:25 Vocal fry in RP 15:40 Vocal fry in other languages 17:02 Is vocal fry a pathology? 17:43 Vocal fry in singing 18:03 Are women better at vocal fry? 20:22 Vocal fry vs. breathy voice 22:27 What does vocal fry symbolize? 24:40 Vocal fry and Uptalk 25:23 Annoying creaks 26:08 Creaking and horror Chat with other speech/language fans on my Discord: https://discord.gg/XBf483kt Stuff Mom Never Told You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7BBNEwyOjw Boston U: What Nasal Endoscopy Can Tell Us About Voice Health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZcMgzHpQI&t=3s Mayo Clinic Minute: What happens when you vocal fry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwUEu3McHg8 Praat speech analysis app https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ Science Friday https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-why-of-vocal-fry/ BBC news 1939 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqN_KbZSCKk C. S. Lewis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3jYLGcDUFE Identifying Vocal Fry Using Deep Neural Networks https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359646703_DeepFry_Identifying_Vocal_Fry_Using_Deep_Neural_Networks Vocal fry and perceived fluency https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360487285_Creaky_voice_and_utterance_fluency_measures_in_predicting_perceived_fluency_and_oral_proficiency_of_spontaneous_L2_Finnish Chao, M., & Bursten, J. (2021). Girl Talk: Understanding Negative Reactions to Female Vocal Fry. Hypatia, 36(1), 42-59. doi:10.1017/hyp.2020.55 C. S. Lewis plaque by Albert Bridge Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C_S_Lewis_plaque,_Belfast_-_geograph.org.uk_-_449812.jpg