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I never heard anyone with this speech impediment but the larynx is muscle and sometimes, with age, it weakens.  Like other muscles in the body.  My mom developed a raspy, weak voice when she was in her late 70's.  It bothered her a lot but she assumed it was an age thing.  One day, just making conversation, she mentioned it to her cardiologist and he said  "that can be fixed easily".  He referred her to an ORL specialist who did a procedure with a laryngosocope.  It took about 30 minutes, she stayed in reovery for 4 hours but only because she had heart condition.  A few days, maybe a week later; she had her strong  voice back.  

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Good grief who cares?

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@chrystaltree wrote:

I never heard anyone with this speech impediment but the larynx is muscle and sometimes, with age, it weakens.  Like other muscles in the body.  My mom developed a raspy, weak voice when she was in her late 70's.  It bothered her a lot but she assumed it was an age thing.  One day, just making conversation, she mentioned it to her cardiologist and he said  "that can be fixed easily".  He referred her to an ORL specialist who did a procedure with a laryngosocope.  It took about 30 minutes, she stayed in reovery for 4 hours but only because she had heart condition.  A few days, maybe a week later; she had her strong  voice back.  


@chrystaltree, voice fading is not a speech impediment; it's an affectation.


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@Alison Wonderland wrote:

No, vocal fry doesn't bother me.


 

 

whatever it is called i guess i never notice it.

so i have to say it doesnt bother me.

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@suzyQ3 wrote:

@chrystaltree wrote:

I never heard anyone with this speech impediment but the larynx is muscle and sometimes, with age, it weakens.  Like other muscles in the body.  My mom developed a raspy, weak voice when she was in her late 70's.  It bothered her a lot but she assumed it was an age thing.  One day, just making conversation, she mentioned it to her cardiologist and he said  "that can be fixed easily".  He referred her to an ORL specialist who did a procedure with a laryngosocope.  It took about 30 minutes, she stayed in reovery for 4 hours but only because she had heart condition.  A few days, maybe a week later; she had her strong  voice back.  


@chrystaltree, voice fading is not a speech impediment; it's an affectation.

 

I never heard of it.  Maybe it's a regional thing.  Whatever it is, people where I live don't deliberately make strange sounds.  


 

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@suzyQ3 wrote:

@chrystaltree wrote:

I never heard anyone with this speech impediment but the larynx is muscle and sometimes, with age, it weakens.  Like other muscles in the body.  My mom developed a raspy, weak voice when she was in her late 70's.  It bothered her a lot but she assumed it was an age thing.  One day, just making conversation, she mentioned it to her cardiologist and he said  "that can be fixed easily".  He referred her to an ORL specialist who did a procedure with a laryngosocope.  It took about 30 minutes, she stayed in reovery for 4 hours but only because she had heart condition.  A few days, maybe a week later; she had her strong  voice back.  


@chrystaltree, voice fading is not a speech impediment; it's an affectation.


Thank you, @suzyQ3. Came to say this, but you had it covered.

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Well I thought you found a new term for what Sandra Bennett does and that really DOES drive me crazy.  She will be talking in a normal tone and then her voice fades out and she finishes the rest of the sentence in a whisper - like it's a secret.  That's not a good thing to do when you're SELLING something.  It seems like they would want us to hear every word.

 

Back to the vocal fry.  I always thought the girls who did that were trying to sound secksy (can we put the real spelling without getting deleted now?).  Smiley Happy  It sounds just the opposite to me - very annoying and like you just finished 9 shots of tequila and just can't form the words properly.

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@chrystaltree wrote:

@suzyQ3 wrote:

@chrystaltree wrote:

I never heard anyone with this speech impediment but the larynx is muscle and sometimes, with age, it weakens.  Like other muscles in the body.  My mom developed a raspy, weak voice when she was in her late 70's.  It bothered her a lot but she assumed it was an age thing.  One day, just making conversation, she mentioned it to her cardiologist and he said  "that can be fixed easily".  He referred her to an ORL specialist who did a procedure with a laryngosocope.  It took about 30 minutes, she stayed in reovery for 4 hours but only because she had heart condition.  A few days, maybe a week later; she had her strong  voice back.  


@chrystaltree, voice fading is not a speech impediment; it's an affectation.

 

I never heard of it.  Maybe it's a regional thing.  Whatever it is, people where I live don't deliberately make strange sounds.  


 


@chrystaltree, it's a type of speaking that is hard to describe.


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@santorini wrote:

Well I thought you found a new term for what Sandra Bennett does and that really DOES drive me crazy.  She will be talking in a normal tone and then her voice fades out and she finishes the rest of the sentence in a whisper - like it's a secret.  That's not a good thing to do when you're SELLING something.  It seems like they would want us to hear every word.

 

Back to the vocal fry.  I always thought the girls who did that were trying to sound secksy (can we put the real spelling without getting deleted now?).  Smiley Happy  It sounds just the opposite to me - very annoying and like you just finished 9 shots of tequila and just can't form the words properly.


@santorini, I remember that well when I used to watch QVC occasionally. My thought is that people sometimes do that in order to make you have to work to hear what their saying,  to get people's attention. And yes, I recall thinking that it was annoying.


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@santorini wrote:

 

 

Back to the vocal fry.  I always thought the girls who did that were trying to sound secksy (can we put the real spelling without getting deleted now?).  Smiley Happy  It sounds just the opposite to me - very annoying and like you just finished 9 shots of tequila and just can't form the words properly.


Never thought of it as trying to sound sexy, that would be more of a breath-y, whisper-y voice I would think.  This sounds more like someone who smoked with the windows up.

 

For those who have no idea what voice fry sounds like, think Elmer Fudd.