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Voice pitch analyzer: your speaking pitch in Hz

A passage to read aloud

Every voice has a pitch of its own. It rises when we ask a question and falls when we finish a thought. Reading the same few lines each time, at the same loudness, makes the measurement easier to compare from one day to the next.

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Press Start, allow the microphone, then talk for 10 to 30 seconds

Start the voice pitch analyzer

Your pitch is worked out in your browser from the microphone and thrown away frame by frame. Nothing is recorded and nothing is uploaded. It measures the pitch your vocal folds produce (the fundamental frequency), from 60 to 500 Hz.

Last updated: October 29, 2026

Typical speaking pitch

Note names are the nearest note to each end, worked out from A4 = 440 Hz.

What the numbers mean

Your speaking pitch is the fundamental frequency of your voice: how many times a second your vocal folds vibrate. The analyzer reads it about a dozen times a second whenever your voice is clearly voiced, and skips pauses, breaths and voiceless consonants such as s and f, which are made without the vocal folds vibrating. The average is the median of all those readings, so a few misreadings do not pull it. The middle 80% leaves out the highest and lowest tenth of your readings, and the pitch movement is the width of that middle 80% in semitones: a flat, even delivery gives a small number, a lively one a bigger number.

Pitch is one part of how a voice sounds

In listening studies, pitch is the strongest single cue to whether a voice is heard as a man's or a woman's, and resonance, the formant frequencies that shape each vowel, also plays an important part. In one study, shifting a recorded voice's pitch alone usually did not change which sex listeners heard, but shifting pitch and resonance together usually did. A number on this page describes one property of your voice, not the whole of it.

Speaking pitch and singing range

Your speaking pitch is one point inside the much wider range your voice can sing. To find that range, from your lowest to your highest held note, use the vocal range test. To see the exact note of a sung or played tone, use the pitch detector.

What is a normal speaking pitch?

For young adults, typically about 90 to 155 Hz for men and 165 to 255 Hz for women (Baken and Orlikoff, 2000, from Fitch and Holbrook, 1970). A 2020 study in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, citing earlier research, gives typical averages of 100 to 150 Hz for men and 180 to 230 Hz for women; its own 169 speakers, aged 17 to 87, averaged 111 Hz and 198 Hz. These are typical ranges, not limits.

Why does my pitch move so much?

Speech is never one note. Pitch rises and falls with stress and intonation all the time, which is why the analyzer reports the median of everything it heard and the middle 80% of your readings rather than a single number.

Why does it show nothing when I whisper?

A whisper is made with breath alone, without the vocal folds vibrating, so it has no fundamental frequency to measure. Talk at your normal loudness.

Can I use it to practise changing my voice?

Yes, as a way to check your average from one session to the next: read the same passage at the same loudness and distance each time and compare the averages. Pitch is only part of how a voice comes across, so a speech therapist or voice coach can help with the rest.

Does it record me?

No. Your pitch is worked out in your browser from the microphone and thrown away frame by frame. Nothing is stored or uploaded.

Sources: Baken and Orlikoff, Clinical Measurement of Speech and Voice, 2nd ed. (2000), p. 177, from Fitch and Holbrook (1970), as cited in Wikipedia, voice frequency; Taylor et al., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2020); Hillenbrand and Clark, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2009) on pitch and formants.