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10 Simple Ways to Make Your Voice Sound More Attractive
Your voice can seduce or drive people away
Love is blind. Or so 2020’s hottest reality show claimed. In each episode, daters spoke behind closed doors and chose a partner based solely on conversations.
But the show’s attempt to rule out superficial traits like appearances had one obvious flaw —someone’s voice is a huge part of sexual attraction.
When someone has a smooth voice, it can make you want to slide under your sheets for days with them. And when someone has a nasal sounding voice, it feels like you are trapped in a locked cage with Fran Drescher.
Voice is a make or break trait because we make assumptions about someone’s personality from their voice. In one study, participants accurately predicted what someone looked like from their voice alone and matched faces to voices with around 70% accuracy.
AI did even better. The computer program, Speech2Face was able to generate a photorealistic face from a small voice clip. And it really looked like each speaker.
You are probably already aware that your voice is affected by your lungs, diaphragm, and voicebox. But your voice also changes with your facial structure, expressions, posture, fluctuating hormones, and even your mood. In one study…
