Your larynx is much more than just a noise-making organ. Check out these fun facts about the voice box and what your tone gives away about you.

1-Airplane chatter can cause damage

air on planes has about 8 to 12% humidity, which is about as dry as the Arizona desert. Air with very little moisture is tough on the vocal cords, so keeping talking to a minimum could help protect your voice.

2-Trying to protect your larynx? Don’t whisper!

We advise people not to whisper as whispering is, in fact, harder on your voice than speaking in a normal tone,

Using your voice gently and quietly is better than forcing your vocal cords to squeeze together tightly through whispering.

3-Babies know their mom’s voice before they’re born

At 25 weeks of development, your baby can already recognize and respond to your voice

Once they’re born, babies also show a clear preference and recognition for their mother’s voice over other female voices that they hear.

4-There’s a scientific reason you hate your own voice

When you talk, energy bounces around in your mouth, throat, and through your head, directly to the inner portion of your ear

Other people can’t sense the vibrations in your mouth, so you hear your own voice differently than they do. When you hear your voice in a recording, you sound brighter or higher than what you’re used to, which you may find irritating.

5-Your voice gives away a lot of information about you

In fact, someone hearing your voice can potentially guess your physical features as accurately as someone examining a photo of you.

6-The man with the deepest voice can’t hear it

Men often speak at a frequency of 65 to 260 Hertz. The lower the Hz, the deeper the voice. American singer Tim Storms holds the Guinness World Record for the lowest vocal note produced by a man and the world’s deepest voice, hitting a mere 0.189 Hz.