About this episode

The episode discusses a study analyzing vocal fry in Canadian public figures, revealing surprising findings about gender differences in voice creaking.

Send us Fan Mail 📖 Read the companion essay on Substack 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd5BbCEeC3Z6dp-nNjWRbBw 🎙️Available for Broadcast: https://exchange.prx.org/group_accounts/253118-heliox_where_evidence_meets_empathy Researchers analyzed 92,000 individual vowels from 49 Canadian public figures — including Céline Dion and Justin Trudeau — using an automated acoustic pipeline with zero human bias. What they found overturns a decade of cultural certainty: men creak more t...

Topics covered

• vocal fry
• acoustic analysis
• Canadian public figures
• gender voice differences
• cultural perceptions

Keywords

• vocal fry
• acoustic pipeline
• gender differences
• Céline Dion
• Justin Trudeau
• voice analysis
• cultural certainty

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