HOUSTON, TX (KTRK) -- The new Bachelorette has it. Celebrities have it. Your wife --maybe your girlfriend ---or even you may have it. It's a sort of creak when you speak, and its afflicting young ...

Vocal fry, aka “creaky voice,” is a distinctive drop in pitch, usually at the end of sentences, associated with the speech patterns of young women in particular. Britney Spears is the go-to example of ...

fry on the right track. “Patriarchy is inventive,” she writes. It’s true. It is. So inventive in fact, it keeps finding reasons to dismiss young women’s voices. Vocal fry is just the latest in a long, ...

Has anyone else noticed a "movement" to label people who find vocal fry annoying as bigots? It's weird… Radiolab and Freakanomics both had segments on vocal fry and they both sorta made it into a "if ...

Vocal fry? What’s that? It’s a creaky, low in pitch voice that is becoming common among young American women. Some people find it annoying. A University of Miami researcher and his collaborators say ...

SALT LAKE CITY— Oh baby, baby. Britney Spears’ famous croak could actually be giving listeners a sign. Spears’ signature sound, an effect called “vocal fry,” makes female singers sound more expressive ...

Trends come and go but there is one trend popularized by celebrities like Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian that actually can have long-term health consequences. NY1’s Erin Billups filed the following ...

Whether or not you’re familiar with vocal fry, you’ve heard someone using it. Kim Kardashian’s use of vocal fry is notorious, as is Zooey Deschanel’s. (Searching for a good vocal fry example? YouTube ...

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Vocal fry, or glottal fry, is the lowest voice register—below falsetto, head, and chest voices—and is characterized by a low-frequency rattling or frying sound. Although it feels like vocal fry reared ...

For decades, vocal fry lived a relatively quiet existence. A creaky or breathy sound that occurs when your voice drops to its lowest register, this phenomenon was long known to linguists, speech ...