Acoustic features distinguishing the male and female voice?

1. How can you tell the difference between a male and female voice?
2. What is the main difference between male and female voice?
3. What is one difference between male and female's voice seen on a narrow band spectrogram?

How can you tell the difference between a male and female voice?

In general, the fundamental frequency of a sound is inversely proportional to the size of the source, that is, adults males tend to have voices with a low F0 or low pitch, and adult females tend to have voices with a high F0 or high pitch.

What is the main difference between male and female voice?

A woman's voice has a higher frequency than a man's voice. Higher is the frequency, higher is the pitch and hence, shriller is the sound. Thus, a woman's voice is usually shriller than a man's voice. In the case of a man's voice, the pitch is usually low and therefore the sound is flat or grave.

What is one difference between male and female's voice seen on a narrow band spectrogram?

As seen in the spectrograms beneath,we can compare the intensities of male vs female voice.Female's voice has more frequency components compared to men. Women speak at one octave higher than men.