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I have a deeper voice and in the workplace this appears to be an advantage. Hard to test it scientifically, but it seems my colleagues listen more intently when I speak than they do to others.

This could be due to other factors but I've had multiple female colleagues / contractors comment on my voice and suggest I record audiobooks (I have).

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This seems believable... it would also suggest that for WFH workers, it would be beneficial to do some artificial voice deepening on the microphone input.

If you switch to a new job, nobody will ever know what your 'real' voice is. Just make sure you never forget to turn on the software before a meeting :)

For an existing job, you might be able to gradually increase the pitch adjustment in small increments over the course of a few months?

I suppose in the future we'll have implants to do this. Cosmetic surgery, but for the voice.

While you’re at it you could also use some deep style transfer to improve your overall looks. Just make sure that no real image can be found anywhere. /s

One nice thing about fully-remote industries is that at least there's no preferential selection for height

Start off a new job as a v-tuber...

There are exercises to increase vocal range and deepen voice. Obviously there's a limit but our voices are not as fixed as most people think.

Elizabeth Holmes certainly thought it helped.

Interesting, I got driven crazy by having a deep voice that carried at work. If I wasn’t mindful about talking softly and carefully my colleagues would tell me I was talking too loud (they were kind about this, but it was frequent.) It was one of the best things about shifting to WFH a half decade ago- not having to think about disrupting anyone else while talking.

I hadn’t thought as much about the plus side of attention it brought.

That is interesting. My wife occasionally tells me I'm speaking too loudly. I haven't encountered this in the workplace, but perhaps they are intimidated / too kind to say anything.

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