To make your voice deeper without hurting your vocal cords:
1. Activate your lower lungs
Deep diaphragm breathing from your lower lungs instead of shallow chest breathing strengthens your lung capacity and breath control so you can tap into fuller, more robust vocal tones. Inhale slowly through your nose to expand your abdomen, hold it for a few seconds, and exhale slowly through your mouth.
2. Hold your head high
Slouching and hunching over restricts the airflow in chest muscles, but when your head is aligned with your spine, your lungs have more space to expand, giving you more breath control during speaking or singing. Always keep your feet shoulder-width apart with your neck relaxed to release tension.
3. Exercise your vocal cords
- Humming: Engages the vocal cords by resonating in your chest so you can reach lower notes, making your voice deeper.
- Vocal fry: Helps produce a creaky vocal sound at the lowest pitch possible so you can access and strengthen your lower vocal range.
- Sirening: Involves sliding your voice smoothly up and down a pitch range to enhance vocal flexibility and improve pitch control.
- Lip trills: Sounds like “brrr” or “trrr” are made by blowing air through pursed lips to warm up the voice, relax tension, and promote airflow control.
- Yawn-sigh: Opening the mouth wide and releasing a slow, extended sigh with an “ah” sound helps ease tension in the throat muscles for a relaxed vocal tone.
- Tongue exercises: Practicing tongue twisters with repeated phrases and complex sounds improves articulation, diction, and tongue coordination for clearer speech.
4. Mimic voice styles
To learn how to deep your voice, imitate the deeper voices of characters from movies, TV shows, or audiobooks by matching their tone and pitch. You can explore different vocal ranges, like Vin Diesel’s lines as Groot in “Guardians of the Galaxy.” In a single line, ‘I am Groot,’ his tone ranges from baritone and gravelly to low velvety gravitas.
5. Project your voice
Experiment with loud and soft tones and volume, but maintain a relaxed throat to avoid strain and achieve a deeper resonance. Practice making your voice deeper by speaking in Scarlett Johansson’s soothing, husky voice or following Gilbert Gottfried’s loud, shrilly, high-pitched tone.
6. Slow it down
Slowing down your speech rate can naturally lower the pitch of your voice. Adding strategic pauses also adds weight and depth to spoken words.
7. Whisper away
Whispering is a technique you can use to explore lower registers by speaking in a controlled, low-pitched manner. This helps you maintain depth and resonance at softer volumes.
8. Be vocally creative
Develop unique personalities and voices for your own characters by exploring tones, accents, and pitches. This is an imaginative activity that helps you explore different vocal ranges creatively.
9. Centralize your vibrations
Relaxing and vocalizing deeply and rhythmically helps you concentrate on your vocal vibrations to produce low, resonant tones. It also relaxes and grounds you
10. Morph your voice
Imitate non-speech sounds with your voice, like drumbeats, whistles, a clock ticking, wind blowing, or waves crashing, to experiment with tones and depth. You can draw vocal inspiration from pros like Alan Tudyk, who created the vocal sounds for HeiHei, the rooster in Moana, and Tuk Tuk, the armadillo from Raya and the Last Dragon.
