How is sound produced in the vocal cords.What is the difference in the vocal cords of men and women?
Answers
The process of converting the air pressure from the lungs into audible vibrations is called phonation. When the air passes through the elastic vocal folds and causes them to vibrate, the type of phonation is called voicing. The vocal folds give the singer a wide range of control over the pitch of the sound produced.
The vocal cords or vocal folds are two sets of tissue stretched across the larynx. They can vibrate when air passes through the larynx. ... Men and women have different vocal fold sizes. Adult male voices are usually deeper': males have larger folds.
Adult men and women typically have different sizes of vocal fold; reflecting the male-female differences in larynx size. Adult male voices are usually lower-pitched and have larger folds. ... The difference in vocal folds size between men and women means that they have differently pitched voices.