Average speaking fundamental frequency is 120 Hz for men and 200 Hz for women

Evidence

The frequency of glottal oscillation is one of the most important acoustic parameters of voiced speech, the fundamental frequency f0. In conversational speech, the average value of f0 is about 120 Hz for males and about 200 Hz for females. Humans are, however, capable of producing much larger f0 values: for a soprano singer, for example, f0 can go up to 1500 Hz (Klingholz, 1990). — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 553

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 553