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title: Does the menstrual cycle affect how a girl's voice sounds or how she speaks?
description: No, the study found no clear differences in voice pitch, intensity, speed of speech, or other vocal qualities between the two phases of the menstrual cycle.
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/menstrual-cycle-influences-on-voice-and-speech-in-adolescent-females-2009/
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Survey study, 2009

# Does the menstrual cycle affect how a girl's voice sounds or how she speaks?

No, the study found no clear differences in voice pitch, intensity, speed of speech, or other vocal qualities between the two phases of the menstrual cycle.

 Early or limited evidence

23 adolescent girls not using birth control

## What they did

Measured voice and speech in 23 adolescent girls not using birth control during both the follicular and luteal phases. They used computer software to analyse fundamental frequency, voice intensity, speed of speech, and vocal modulation.

## What they found

Voice characteristics were similar in both phases. Fundamental frequency was 192.6 Hz, minimum formant 891.7 Hz, maximum formant 2471.5 Hz, and vocal intensity was 61.5 dB. Speech speed was 5.2 seg/s in meaningful sentences and 1.9 seg/s in meaningless sentences.

## What it means for you

The menstrual cycle doesn't seem to affect how adolescent girls speak. This is from a small cross-sectional study, and all participants were teenagers.

23

adolescent girls

192.6

Hz, fundamental frequency

61.5

dB, vocal intensity

## About the study

Original title Menstrual cycle influences on voice and speech in adolescent females Authors Meurer EM, Garcez V, von Eye Corleta H et al. Journal Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation Year 2009 Study design Survey study Read the paper [doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2007.03.001](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2007.03.001)

## Topics

[Oral contraceptives and drospirenone](https://niyora.com/research/topics/treatment-hormonal-contraceptives/)[Adolescents and young people](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-adolescents/)

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