deep cold voice

[YBtheOutlaw]

so basically i'm pre everything, and my voice's natural frequency is around that of a prepubescent boy. i'm not sure if i can call it the natural frequency, as i can fluctuate it between sweet female voice to deep resonant male voice without much effort (i sing, btw) and the frequency i stick to now is just the voice i'm comfortable with mentally. lately i've been trying out my deepest just to see for myself if i could pass with what i have. and i only found myself sounding quite rude and cold. as if i'm angry. no friendliness. just COLD. is this because i'm used to the higher voice and i think i sound cold in low voice? or do i need to practice to add emotion into low voice? then how? plus do you think being into singing since age 9 has given me the wide range of comfortable frequencies? if so i should be more grateful to music. thanks all. your voice training stories are welcome

[Sir Real]

I would ask someone if it sounds cold to them. It might just be because like you said you're more used to something else. I'm pretty sure that my background in music, and voice as brief as it was, helps a lot with the flexibility in my voice. It's possible it would have been relatively natural to you to a degree, but most likely it's helped a lot. The female voice isn't typically used to being in the chest voice or at least not too much so having that been trained from singing I bet helps quite a bit.

[overdrive]

Have you tried recording yourself speaking and playing it back? I found I sounded much less monotone than I thought when I played it back. I was actually surprised at how much fluctuation there is in my deeper voice. One thing to keep in mind is that men in general don't have the same range of emotion when speaking, they don't have all the highs and lows that women in general do. So to be missing some fluctuation can actually be a good thing since its more of a typical male mannerism.

[Kreuzfidel]

Echoing Overdrive here. 

You could also record yourself and upload it online if you wanted us to critique it.  I sound completely different in my head than I do on recordings, so it's possible it's not quite what you think. 

[Gene]

Dude, I know the feel. While I'm pre-everything, my voice apparently comes out monotone and with little inflections despite the fact that I think it does. I just make an attempt to stress inflections and I ask friends and family to let me know if I an monotone or coming across with more of a variety. I think if you actively practice, you may get better results. Of course, it always helps to listen to a recording of your voice. I now use an app called Vox that is like a walkie-talkie kind of thing, and I listen to the audio I send so I can gauge how my voice came across versus how I think it came across.