Modal Register, Vocal Fry, and Uptalk: Identification and Perceptual Judgments of Inexperienced Listeners.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to identify the accuracy with which graduate students in a department of communication sciences and disorders identify modal register, vocal fry, and uptalk presented in audio samples of female celebrity speakers, and to report these listeners' perceptual responses to a variety of attributes (eg, trustworthy, competent, educated).

Study Design: This investigation was an anonymous online survey study.

Methods: As part of an anonymous online survey, graduate students in a department of communicative sciences and disorders listened to training modules and then classified female voice samples according to the three features under investigation (ie, modal register, vocal fry, and uptalk).