Why your voice is like a fingerprint

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  • čas přidán 20. 08. 2024

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  • @Salted_Potato
    @Salted_Potato Před rokem +712

    Vox has the greatest array of journalists I have ever seen in any channel. Serious talent all around to cover so many versatile topics with high quality!

  • @DSQueenie
    @DSQueenie Před rokem +821

    This is interesting because my sister and I have very very, I’ve always been told identical voices, similar voices. Even our parents can’t really tell
    them apart if we speak to them from another room.
    The only way we are told apart is by our word choice.

    • @watsonunlimitedmusic
      @watsonunlimitedmusic Před rokem +35

      Yeah that's the one statement here that doesn't entirely hold true..

    • @jdredman
      @jdredman Před rokem +85

      @@watsonunlimitedmusic Sure it does. Identical, but not the same. The OP and their sister likely have the same upbringing. Had they been separated at birth and moved to another state or even country, they'd likely sound vastly different.

    • @dyamoy
      @dyamoy Před rokem +3

      Question…have you used this particular “feature” to your twin’s /demise/? 😅

    • @DrDjones
      @DrDjones Před rokem +4

      Identical or similar ... make up your mind already

    • @visitstothebank
      @visitstothebank Před rokem +6

      I understand what you are saying me and my brother are 4 yrs apart but we sound identical, I can tell the difference in our voices it’s small but I see it but most ppl can’t.

  • @boy638
    @boy638 Před rokem +554

    But just like how there are non-twins that look uncannily similar to each other, there must be people's voices that sound virtually identical but we just have yet to find it?

    • @TheOfficialNathanMacLeod
      @TheOfficialNathanMacLeod Před rokem +125

      I presume so but accents and languages would mask it to some extent.

    • @ymmwina
      @ymmwina Před rokem +27

      I knew two identical twins who sound exactly the same, and I've heard other stories of strangers sounding the exact same (leading to pranks and stuff). This video is so interesting but in my life, i have met people who sound identical sooooo....

    • @Ginamichelle767
      @Ginamichelle767 Před rokem +11

      Vocal doppelgangers!

    • @gamemeister27
      @gamemeister27 Před rokem +20

      Yeah I found an ASMR video where the guy sounded way too similar to me for my own mental health

    • @alexxxO_O
      @alexxxO_O Před rokem +9

      I've literally heard people with UNCANNILY similar voices to me.

  • @Imbatmn57
    @Imbatmn57 Před rokem +289

    My mom and i sound really similar on the phone, if its analyzed you could probably see the difference but most people cant tell who's actually calling.

    • @Imbatmn57
      @Imbatmn57 Před rokem +15

      Its the same with her sisters, my grandmother would always wait till they said something only they would say, till she figured out who "its me" is.

    • @DSQueenie
      @DSQueenie Před rokem +5

      It’s the same for my sister and I. We’ve always been told our voices are identical.

    • @triciac.5078
      @triciac.5078 Před rokem +6

      My mom, her sister and I all sound the same on the phone.

    • @jamestdawson
      @jamestdawson Před rokem +7

      I think there are many variables as I once dated a young woman who sounded nearly identical to her mother despite being adopted.

    • @hopeweiss9549
      @hopeweiss9549 Před rokem

      same

  • @mmleehan
    @mmleehan Před rokem +134

    When you sound like somebody that I used to know

    • @mysticmarble94
      @mysticmarble94 Před rokem +7

      OUT 🥸🥸🥸

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 Před rokem +3

      Kimbra sounds like Katy Perry.

    • @anonymousc.8934
      @anonymousc.8934 Před rokem +18

      You didn’t have to cut me off 😢

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 Před rokem +15

      @@anonymousc.8934 Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing!

  • @RarelyAChump
    @RarelyAChump Před rokem +590

    "There will be no one who will ever sound like you", but there will be technology that can already 😅

    • @perhapsyes2493
      @perhapsyes2493 Před rokem +39

      Full pedantry mode: That's not a "someone", that would be a thing. (Until AI declares itself/is declared sentient, that is ... which might be very close)

    • @brettito
      @brettito Před rokem +4

      @BunsGlazing obviously you have never left your own town because there are people in the world that do not speak English natively. I feel bad for you.

    • @nightspicer
      @nightspicer Před rokem +3

      there are some people that can do insanely accurate impersonations

    • @samiam2003
      @samiam2003 Před rokem

      💀fr

  • @Dr.Kraig_Ren
    @Dr.Kraig_Ren Před rokem +75

    *Why no one sounds like you*
    _Even I don't sound like myself when I hear my recordings...._

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 Před rokem +27

      That has to do with where your ears are. Other people hear you a little differently than you hear yourself because they are at a different distance and angle from your mouth than your own ears are. If you record yourself with a phone, try putting your phone right next to your ear and "see" if it sounds more like you.

    • @samiam2003
      @samiam2003 Před rokem

      💀

    • @ShazeemKhan
      @ShazeemKhan Před rokem +1

      ​@@gabor6259 OMG I never thought of that, it works! Lol

    • @RailzNY
      @RailzNY Před rokem +1

      Tell that to WhatsApp after listening to a message you've just sent

  • @Hawk259
    @Hawk259 Před rokem +76

    I love this! I’m a Speech-Language Pathologist! This is my jam! So happy to see more education about these areas 🤗

    • @foxque2149
      @foxque2149 Před rokem +1

      As a SLP I proudly enjoyed the video too, high five!

    • @eLLeGx3
      @eLLeGx3 Před rokem +2

      Another SLP here!!! Totally got excited about this video too.

    • @tyr3759
      @tyr3759 Před rokem

      A FSD here! Totally not excited, but it's interesting.

    • @nzs316
      @nzs316 Před rokem

      So how do we differentiate ChatGPT from the real person. Today they are very close.
      Give it another couple months and it may be impossible to differentiate the copy from the original.

    • @megzmeow
      @megzmeow Před rokem

      Speech and language therapist in the UK here! Just started specialising in dysphonia - this will be so useful to so many people! More please!

  • @Davi_L
    @Davi_L Před rokem +24

    When I was in 8th grade a classmate of mine moved 5,000 miles across the world. 7 years later I was visiting that country sitting in a lobby talking on the phone and some random person walked over and said "Davi, is that you?" It was him.

  • @nateridgely6778
    @nateridgely6778 Před rokem +29

    I’ve always noticed that people who look alike don’t always sound alike, but anybody who sounds like someone almost always looks like them

  • @paulcarlachapman628
    @paulcarlachapman628 Před rokem +42

    As others have commented, sometimes a vocal imprint seems to run in families. I sound like my mother did and my daughters sound like me. Both my brothers sound like Daddy did. Then you will see sibling singing pairs or groups who can achieve amazingly close harmony because they sound so much alike. Voices are interesting.

  • @nikkitronic80
    @nikkitronic80 Před rokem +48

    This was very interesting. I used to sing a lot and be pretty good at it too. I sang in choir all through school, used to do musical theater and just sing for fun at home or in the shower. Then I became addicted to drugs for many years and never sang, it was a sad, terrible time in my life. I’ve been sober for four years now and when I try to sing, it comes out as a shadow of my former singing self. I thought I’d try to get back into choir but I can hardly hold a tune anymore. I can just feel that my muscles have atrophied down in there. I wonder if with practice it’s something that can come back? Because it’s pretty bad lol, I sound awful now lol

  • @kfemme68
    @kfemme68 Před rokem +13

    I do know one thing that changes things... for me it was being in a major car accident and having tubes in my throat for so long or so many (I'm not sure which was the culprit for sure) but it damaged my vocal cords and makes it very hard for me to sing at all anymore. But being alive after that accident wasn't a guarantee so I'm just thankful I'm alive.

  • @10nsolly
    @10nsolly Před rokem +215

    Is there an explanation for people who can do impressions really well?

    • @debangan
      @debangan Před rokem +107

      Training their vocal chords to make diverse range of sounds. Then adjusting them to sound like somebody else. It is never 100% accurate though.

    • @bobbymoss6160
      @bobbymoss6160 Před rokem +27

      muscle control. end of explanation.

    • @SoftTofu123
      @SoftTofu123 Před rokem +14

      lets say you draw something. it's unique. but I can always try to copy it as best as I could. maybe it's close enough that i can trick others. it's basically the same thing.

    • @LuukvdHoogen
      @LuukvdHoogen Před rokem +9

      I think many great impressions have to do with timing and mimicking someones thought process. When I see a great impression I think: 'that is exactly how she would say that!' in stead of 'that is exactly the right frequency and resonance!'

    • @encouraginglegacy
      @encouraginglegacy Před rokem +2

      @@LuukvdHoogen
      Good point here.

  • @stellarsyd
    @stellarsyd Před rokem +16

    When we think about this musically, it is just so beautiful

  • @sonnychoi
    @sonnychoi Před rokem +96

    Just so you and the other presenters know, none of you sound annoying or weird!
    From my personal experience, people who comment on how "irritating" or "unattractive" on another person sounds, are the people I want to listen to the least.

  • @gradientcube
    @gradientcube Před rokem +14

    Vox has been making some amazing videos lately.

  • @leonhardeuler675
    @leonhardeuler675 Před rokem +46

    5:38 as a podiatrist, I can tell you that the foot is the sole. Not the larynx.

  • @abmindprof
    @abmindprof Před rokem +22

    Thanks, as a linguist I appreciate videos like these. It must have been hard to narrow down. There's so much more that could be said, such as languages that use voice changes (most obviously tones but also various stretches and relaxing) to make meaning, smokers voice, and so on.

  • @jasminek3612
    @jasminek3612 Před rokem +31

    What’s creepy is when sisters sound almost exactly the same

  • @AxeSoul
    @AxeSoul Před rokem +14

    PLEASE do more videos on voices/vocal stuff!

  • @AudreyYun
    @AudreyYun Před rokem +7

    voices might not sound EXACTLY alike, but plenty of voices sound very very similar so as to be practically the same to the ear.

  • @astaridjatmiko8187
    @astaridjatmiko8187 Před rokem +5

    "The larynx is a person's soul". Yep, i can't agree more.

  • @ltfreeborn
    @ltfreeborn Před rokem +111

    This is essentially, a video to boost self confidence.

    • @user-op8fg3ny3j
      @user-op8fg3ny3j Před rokem +15

      Kinda felt like it was personal when she brought up the old comments that got under her skin

    • @JeskidoYT
      @JeskidoYT Před rokem +1

      @@user-op8fg3ny3j most videos on this channel stem from just one idea related to someone's personal life. a subjective question turned into a semi objective research.

  • @xanthespace5141
    @xanthespace5141 Před rokem +21

    A question I haven't thought about but uh thanks for giving an answer?

  • @delyar
    @delyar Před rokem +2

    I am a musician and mainly work with singers, I very much like this presentation

  • @andrewsantamonica6025
    @andrewsantamonica6025 Před rokem +4

    2:36 that pause though!

  • @mellow-jello
    @mellow-jello Před rokem +12

    Voices are unique, and that said, tech will come close enough that when listening to a facsimile by AI, you won't hear the difference.

  • @tessiepinkman
    @tessiepinkman Před rokem +19

    This was super cool! I had an idea of how this all worked, but not at all in this detail. Thank you for always providing us with interesting topics, and most importantly; topics with *substance* - because that's really quite rare.

  • @zumabbar
    @zumabbar Před rokem +9

    whoa wait. whispering strains your vocal cord????????

    • @ananas_anna
      @ananas_anna Před rokem +3

      Yep. Which is why when you have laryngitis, you should never whisper.

  • @dennis9052
    @dennis9052 Před rokem +4

    Guys, the fact that larynx can say a lot about a person is one of the most unquestionable truths I have ever heard.
    Nice video to all Vox's team!🎬

  • @justlisten82
    @justlisten82 Před rokem +2

    Now I'm even more interested in how some people can mimic and impersonate others so well.

  • @DrewRobertson1
    @DrewRobertson1 Před rokem +2

    I work with a guy who, if I didn't know any better, was my cousin. He sounds identical. It kind of prevents me from having a normal convo with him without cracking.

  • @voicetube
    @voicetube Před rokem +1

    I'm a voiceover artist for a living… And I approve this video… :-)

  • @TeKaMOTO
    @TeKaMOTO Před rokem +2

    Never noticed anything about the way you speak, but now that you mentioned it, I immediately hyper focused on it and noticed you hardly move your jaw when you speak.

    • @flashsurfing
      @flashsurfing Před rokem

      She also speaks through her mostly closed teeth, especially noticeable on the end of words

  • @Surenwithhisvideos
    @Surenwithhisvideos Před rokem +3

    Thanks Leonardo Di Caprio for that pristine explanation 🙂

  • @Avius_River
    @Avius_River Před rokem +1

    Perfect timing for this video

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 Před rokem +4

    That's a lot of sticky notes in the background LOL

  • @robrodell
    @robrodell Před rokem +2

    Wooooooooooooooonderful video. As a trained singer, 5:13 reminds me to "prektis prektis prektis!" as declared by Mary McDonnell in the movie Sneakers, so that my cords (aka folds) don't atrophy as quickly.... Thanks Vox.

  • @josh8560
    @josh8560 Před rokem +3

    Only OG's remember the orignal title of this video...

    • @miyotto
      @miyotto Před rokem

      Yeah, I put this on my watch later list and I'm surprised that the title has been changed

    • @har5814
      @har5814 Před rokem

      What's the title though?

  • @koguma8823
    @koguma8823 Před rokem +12

    what about identical twins?

  • @Liolia22
    @Liolia22 Před rokem +6

    I beg to differ; me, my sister, and my mom all sound identical when we say “hi” in Russian on the phone 😆 but yes, once we start talking longer, we likely sound different (but it may be related to our varying accents). (Edited for grammar/word choice)

  • @christianhansen3292
    @christianhansen3292 Před rokem

    the pitch of that guy's squeaks at the end are amazing!

  • @dirkdiggler.
    @dirkdiggler. Před rokem +5

    I dont even sound like me when i hear myself

  • @artemcaesar3535
    @artemcaesar3535 Před rokem +1

    The last part was a brilliant :3 I feel roughly the same when I try to produce high pitch sounds ))

  • @2468whodoweappreciate
    @2468whodoweappreciate Před rokem +10

    Thank you, I learned a lot in this video.

  • @ra5aus
    @ra5aus Před rokem +3

    I'm an identical twin and everyone says we sound exactly the same, our mother & my brothers wife gets confused.

  • @hamza-chaudhry
    @hamza-chaudhry Před rokem

    That guy was engaging

  • @outtersteller
    @outtersteller Před rokem +4

    So how does relate to stuttering ???
    I struggled with this while growing up. It runs in the family but always dissipates during puberty.
    I just wanna understand how it works and why.
    Trying to connect the dots with this explanation.

  • @sullychow4123
    @sullychow4123 Před rokem +1

    I was fascinated and horrified by that keyhole camera footage of the vocal folds

  • @ntobekomtimkulu239
    @ntobekomtimkulu239 Před rokem +1

    Could we have a video like this describing accents?

  • @brokenwizards9122
    @brokenwizards9122 Před rokem +12

    3:50 The reason this video was probably made.

  • @ZachPincince
    @ZachPincince Před rokem

    Nobody gonna talk about that casual F7 at the end? 👀🤯

  • @ShazeemKhan
    @ShazeemKhan Před rokem +1

    Loving the content, just subbed. Greetings from Trinidad 🇹🇹

  • @_Sameeeta_
    @_Sameeeta_ Před rokem +1

    So we’re just gonna ignore dude hitting a WHISTLE NOTE at the end?!?!?

  • @abdullahibnemobin7725
    @abdullahibnemobin7725 Před rokem +2

    @Vox
    Would suggest if there can be a part-2 of this to explain how does vocal mimicry works?

  • @antonco2
    @antonco2 Před rokem +4

    Your channel is named Vox, you make a video about voices and you don't joke about it?!

  • @samiam2003
    @samiam2003 Před rokem

    lol the coming to america thing

  • @Haobey
    @Haobey Před rokem

    POV: you missed half of what they said because you were playing with your vocal folds

  • @CHLOE_IN_100SKIES
    @CHLOE_IN_100SKIES Před rokem +1

    learning that made me more aware of my throat 😂

  • @BBQBeerKars
    @BBQBeerKars Před rokem

    Short answer: Nobody!
    ‘Cuz I be amazin’

  • @hopsiepike
    @hopsiepike Před rokem

    Penguin parents find their young in the vast collective nesting grounds, by each one’s unique voice.

  • @Thunder10nutella
    @Thunder10nutella Před rokem +1

    Oh myy- i literally had the same question running in my mind yesterday when i was studying, This definitely helped me better :D

  • @MrDavidMcNick
    @MrDavidMcNick Před rokem

    Some Vox producers don't really show up on camera, but I sure am glad Kim is one that does.

  • @KaDrop
    @KaDrop Před rokem +7

    so I have a question, since it’s a muscle, couldn’t you pull/sprain your vocal muscles?

    • @TYsdrawkcaB
      @TYsdrawkcaB Před rokem +7

      you can strain them, but not really pull or sprain them.

  • @OhMaiGuy
    @OhMaiGuy Před rokem +1

    "Bigger, longer, thicker, more muscular"
    ✌🏾😮‍💨

  • @billsykes5392
    @billsykes5392 Před rokem +1

    Looking forward to Big Tech unethically using this as a biometric identifier 😊

  • @mugumyapaultheafricannomad9488

    I'm watching an answer to a question I have never asked myself. Lol

  • @chirag.r
    @chirag.r Před rokem +1

    Amazing!!

  • @Saleehhh
    @Saleehhh Před rokem +1

    My two brothers sounds the exact same, they are not twins

  • @lamMeTV
    @lamMeTV Před rokem

    Dont get upset about some comments. You are a content creator, its the life you chose. Pretending that humans are better than they are sets you up for failure.

  • @mihakrivec8449
    @mihakrivec8449 Před rokem

    Man has got that PIANO RIZZ🥵

  • @vennstudios9885
    @vennstudios9885 Před rokem +1

    NOOOOOO YOU DID NOT
    YOU DID NOT JUST MADE TWO SMALL BALLOONS CLASH TO EACHOTHER
    NOOO

  • @0rod
    @0rod Před rokem

    That clip of the vocal folds were the most terrifying thing I’ve witnessed

  • @MiguelAngel_Romero
    @MiguelAngel_Romero Před rokem +1

    Wait a second... Whispering strains your vocal cords????

  • @jdredman
    @jdredman Před rokem

    I can almost always pick out my kid from all the other kids' voices at the playground.

  • @greegeo
    @greegeo Před rokem +38

    Only if school was this informative and cool :/

    • @paavoilves5416
      @paavoilves5416 Před rokem +11

      It is, but a video with cool graphics is just easier to digest

    • @SophieMerau
      @SophieMerau Před rokem

      @@paavoilves5416 Unpopular opinion

    • @SophieMerau
      @SophieMerau Před rokem +1

      @@paavoilves5416 It isn’t cool.

    • @yungchop6332
      @yungchop6332 Před rokem

      Got that middleschooler "I hate school because they give us homework" mindset

    • @sifyh.9561
      @sifyh.9561 Před rokem

      It can be! I study English Literature and Linguistics and I learned all of this at school!

  • @AlphaGeekgirl
    @AlphaGeekgirl Před rokem +1

    In my family, if I visit my mother and I answer her phone, I can have a 10 minute conversation with her friends and they do not know that they’re not talking to my mother. Scarier still, is my sister and her two sons all sound the same on the phone. My brother-in-law cannot tell whether he’s talking to his wife or his boys.

  • @Nmnmmnn1
    @Nmnmmnn1 Před rokem

    “Margot Robbie in wolf of Wall Street” 😂😂😂

  • @heyjaydance
    @heyjaydance Před rokem

    6:05 okay Mariah 😂

  • @riyanbabar8416
    @riyanbabar8416 Před rokem

    This video is amazing ❤❤

  • @FedericoMaggiore
    @FedericoMaggiore Před rokem

    Very appreciated! You explained it in the simplest way possible, great! Btw the last note Justin did was a whistle, wasn't it?

  • @shahdnone7281
    @shahdnone7281 Před rokem

    I was just thinking about this the other day!

  • @WaveRaider-ox4nh
    @WaveRaider-ox4nh Před rokem +1

    JERSEY!

  • @Min5
    @Min5 Před rokem

    i love all the vox voices

  • @Stop_arguing_with_strangers

    This video just made my throat feel weird

  • @santha_psk
    @santha_psk Před rokem +30

    what about mimicry artists then?

    • @TYsdrawkcaB
      @TYsdrawkcaB Před rokem +17

      it’s all about manipulation. also, mimicry artists can never sound exactly like the person they’re trying to mimic. the best of us might be able to fool some security, but we’d never be able to sound identical to those we’re trying to imitate

    • @QWERTY-gp8fd
      @QWERTY-gp8fd Před rokem +1

      @@TYsdrawkcaB laughs in ai

  • @hurricanemarigolds2818

    I have trouble telling some voices apart, kinda surprising voices would truly be unique. Some people look startlingly similar to eachother too, almost like they have the same base template lol.

  • @LalitoTV
    @LalitoTV Před rokem +2

    So if pitch affects the tension, and women have higher pitches, does that mean that it's more likely for women to damage their vocal folds?

    • @Yalda581
      @Yalda581 Před rokem

      No the tension affects the pitch, so does the basic vibration of the vocal folds. There is always a pitch where your vocal folds are at ease. For women it is just higher. Maybe there is a density reason for it

    • @nurfuerdieplaylist
      @nurfuerdieplaylist Před rokem

      I'd say no, the higher pitch in women's voices is probably not due to higher tension but their overall size. The strings on instruments also produce higher pitches just by pressing them against the neck (of a guitar for example), which changes the vibrating length but does nothing to it's tension. But maybe being smaller would also make them more prone to damage? Idk. Just my two cents :)

  • @omarshema3089
    @omarshema3089 Před rokem +1

    Blessed is God the best of Creators

  • @nobodyoh288
    @nobodyoh288 Před rokem +1

    Ai has entered the chat.

  • @velociraptor5962
    @velociraptor5962 Před rokem

    Fascinating.

  • @parsarahimi71
    @parsarahimi71 Před rokem

    She was thinking about the third one 1:00 XD

  • @cloud.mp4298
    @cloud.mp4298 Před rokem

    So if I do some impressions then I'm committing identity fraud?

  • @saloo769
    @saloo769 Před rokem +3

    Thank you Vox for the video
    Very interesting

  • @languist
    @languist Před rokem

    This reminds of the days when we had compulsory linguistics theory at university :D

  • @2nd3rd1st
    @2nd3rd1st Před rokem

    The host and The Magicians actress Stella Maeve look very similar. Interesting.

  • @cabbagedraws4700
    @cabbagedraws4700 Před rokem

    I've gotten, this person sounds like you a few times lol

  • @legendsofmyself
    @legendsofmyself Před rokem

    Great!. Thank you

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    @FS-me8mj Před rokem +1

    Subahanallah!