At what age do most guys voice change? When did yours change?
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Mine changed very rapidly after my 15th birthday on January 23, 1997. That year had a really bad cold/flu season, so after I got over a bad cold, my voice came back sounding different. It's rare for me to lose my voice due to a cold, but as it healed it developed a manly "falsetto" quality (sounds real strained on the high notes & the lows sound like a different person). I had 1 register sounding like a man, 1 register sounding like a kid, & another I could never get to sound the same twice (could still scream like a girl too). But not until the summer (97) did I shave or look like a man cuz it takes awhile for your body to feel the full effects of all that testosterone that's had you thinking about girls for 3 or 4 years! But when it does kick in, that's when you grow that 5-8" in height & your penis nearly doubles in length!
The odd thing about all of this is that despite my "late" voice change in the middle of my freshman year, I was an early bloomer for pubic hair & had a sparse quantity since 5th grade. But you see, unlike girls, we guys tend to develop more slowly & our secondary-sex characteristics are preceded by spermarche. (Girls usually reach menarche less than 2 years after the appearance of breases & pubes.) So when it does decide to change, it's a rapid thing -- I went from a little chipmunk kid at Christmas to what sounded like someone's dad by Easter! And then in the summer (97) I was introduced to acne, onion-smelling armpits, & fits of rage at my parents! I'd been getting "morning woodies" for 3-4 years, but I felt the urge to "play with it" all day & all night that summer! I also slept a lot more, so perhaps that's what helped to stabilize the voice breaking by my sohpomore year.
Most boys, however, experience a more gradual change & go through a "hoarse stage" somewhere between 8 & 18. I'm the exception because my voice never went through that, "My baby, you got a cold?" "No, Aunt Mary, it's freaking June!" stage as did my cousin Garrett between 10 and 15 (even his little sister Lauren was like that to a lesser degree). As a kid I sounded like a deeper-voiced chipmunk (like a man on high-speed playback), and now I have a smooth baritone voice rich in vibrato (wavering at the end of the notes). Some people don't but can make good money singing rock or bluegrass, though. My girlfriend Iris & I have a rare gift, she's a good mezz-soprano (nice vibrato, though breath control could use some help) who can harmonize my baritone beautifully! Together we'd like to form an Iris-Cyrus duet but don't have the $ to get it started.
13-14
I'm not a guy, so mine didn't change. But it happens around puberty - at about 13ish.
When I was kicked in the balls.
anywhere from 13--18. and mind didn't change due to the fact that i am a girl!
Mine changed around 13. At the same age, the other secondary sexual characteristics started to develop, like facial and pubic hair, acne (luckily was something temporary), rebel behaviour at home and school (well, not a characteristic but it happens due to the disbalance).
12-15 mine changed at 14
usually between the ages of 12 to 18,its a part of puberty and happens naturally.
early to mid teen years mines changed @ 14
My son will turn 13 in 2 months, and his voice is just beginning to get deeper now.
mine changed at 11 yo, as I live in a very hot country.
I have no idea
around early teen years
12-14
i was early so maybe 13 or so.not sure
It usually changes around the 14th birthday with any age between the 11th & 18th birthdays being within the normal range. Most of my boy cousins changed at age 14, but of course by that I mean the age by which they sound like a grown man! I DO NOT consider a boy of 13 with a hoarse or husky voice to be changed because IF IT IS WITHIN MY OWN RANGE, IT IS NOT A MATURE MALE VOICE! My boyfriend Cyrus likes to say his voice changed between 13 & 15, but I corrected him on that one because I've SEEN home videos transferred from VHS to DVD which prove he DID NOT sound like a man at age 14 -- he changed right after his 15th birthday! So the average age by which a boy's voice becomes TOO DEEP & MASCULINE FOR ME TO EMULATE is around 14 or the end of 8th grade. Believe me, I have a good ear for music & voices, I can tell if a person has a cold the day before they get the fever, so I KNOW when a boy's voice is changing! And since I VIVIDLY remember my jr. high & high school days, I know it is more rare than not for a boy's voice to be SIGNIFICANTLY lower & manlier than mine before age 14. (It's about as rare for a 6th grader to sound like a man as it is for a junior to sound like a little boy, although such extremes do occur in a good 2% of boys.) So for a boy under 14 to have the voice control, let alone the slight vibrato, that I have with those lower notes (actually I'm better with those than I am in my higher octaves where I get winded & have trouble holding notes) is rare, thus, NOT UNTIL AT LEAST 14 DOES A BOY SOUND LIKE A MAN! I sound like a normal woman, so I DO NOT consider a boy with a voice like mine to have a "changed voice!" How can anybody even say that about me? (Yes, I take it personally when people say my voice is "deep" for a female because IT IS NOT!)
My range is very broad, about 3 octaves starting at least an octave below Middle C at a pitch of about 125 hertz (vibrations/second). Cyrus can reach notes below 50 that sound like flatulence, lol! (You can hear the individual vibrations, UUUM!!) So because of this ability I have to use my 3 lowest notes to almost "sound like a guy" if I throw in that nasally "falsetto" quality, A BOY HAS TO DO A LOT OF GROWING BEFORE HE FITS MY DEFINITION OF CHANGED! So to all those people who say the average is 13, YEAH RIGHT! A man's voice is something you just can't fake, so I highly doubt the average 8th grader sounds like Cyrus! They can grunt & groan & try to sound stupid all they want, but when they don't have the facial hair or the height, THEY RARELY FIT MY DEFINITION OF THE MALE VOICE! Remember, if IRIS can hit a lower note than you can, YOU DO NOT HAVE A MAN'S VOICE! Now I realize that the timbre (tone color) of the male voice is quite different from that of the female, making a tenor's high notes more masculine than the lows of an alto. However, 125 hz is way to high for the "absolute do" (bottom limit) of a grown man (if it is, he probably has "puberphonia"). I think it's an ABOMINATION that jr. high choirs call the high-voiced boys "tenors" when some of the "basses" can't talk as low as I can (they should be called boy-soprano & countertenor, or male alto, or cambiato)! I don't care if you're 100 years old, if you CANNOT sustain anything lower than 125 hz, YOUR VOICE HAS NOT ACHIEVED ITS ADULT-MALE PITCH!
Mine changed very gradually at ages 16 through 18, I barely noticed it changing. I was always short & skinny, got picked on alot, so you know my voice was always really, really high like a girl (high soprano, couldn't tell I was a boy). Being a year younger didn't help either, cuz at 16 I was a senior & looked like a freshman. Now I am 23 & my voice is a fine, fine tenor like Justin Timberlake, but it only adds to my cute, boyish look that the girls cherish! I'm only 5'6" but who cares? The ladies LOVE me!
i dunno, i'm 13 mine hasn't changed much if atall.
Man, I wish mine would hurry up & change! I'll be 16 in November & I still sound like a little kid! I hate it!
it certainly isn't 8th grade cuz while lots of the boys at my school have, most haven't. I like older guys partly cuz of this.
boys r immatur, i got my period last yr. but most boys my age 13 dont sound that guyish, they sound like us girls.
Boys are unbelievably immature is right! As a group, they don't sound like men until most of the girls have had periods for 2 or 3 years! It's just like potty-training -- girls beat boys by a landslide! (The average menarche is 12.5 while the average vocal change occurs around 14.5.) But the sad part is, while girls benifit from maturing later, boys would rather mature early. It's almost as if males can't WAIT for adulthood while females realize that childhood is the happiest part of their lifespan. I mean, just look at how most illnesses are said to be "more common in boys than in girls" in childhood, yet the very same ones become "more common in women than in men" when adult groups are studied! Examples include, but are not limited to, asthma, allergies, obesity, depression, and many psychological conditions. Even the common cold, according to something I read, has the following prevalence in the typical family from least to greatest number per year: father, mother, daughter, son. (It's like there's a bigger difference between the a boy and a man than there is between a girl and a woman.) Adolescence, it appears, is the turnabout in which males increase TREMENDOUSLY in strength and health while females may or may not in some cases. So while it might take a boy a few years longer to achieve a manly voice than it does for a girl to start her period, it appears to pay off in the way that they grow up bigger and stronger due to this late change. I guess it's because women need to develop their secondary-sex characteristics AS SOON AS THEY CAN REPRODUCE while men have all their lives to reproduce & don't need a mature body to make a baby. Their bodies are for other things like heavy lifting & combat, which is why they're supposed to mature a little later & over a longer time period.
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