Attractive Voices Send Body Cues.

What makes someone sound sexy? This subject is very essential as many contemporary relationships begin over the phone. *wink.
To those that hear before they get to see this would come in handy so as to guess the figure of the person at the other end of the phone.

To get a scientific viewpoint, researchers gauged volunteers' responses to different voices. The conclusion was that voices considered attractive send messages about body size. The work is in the journal, PLoS ONE.

In the animal kingdom, sound indicates size and intentions. For example, a rough and low-frequency call suggests the vocalizer is large and aggressive, while a clearer, higher frequency signals a small, non-threatening animal.

In the study, researchers adjusted a variety of voices to correspond with different body sizes. To do so, they synthesized completely artificial voices, and recorded sentences before varying the pitches and resonance.

When volunteers listened to the sound samples, men preferred higher-pitched female voices, which suggest a smaller body size. Low-frequency male voices that signaled a large body size, were attractive to females.

Interestingly, breathiness made both male and female voices more desirable. Hmmmm.

Now we have a little knowledge of this lets play a game...call people you know and see if their voice is in sync with their body size. :)