However, if you are like me, you may have to balance the benefits of caffeine-induced brain functionality with hydration. Unfortunately, coffee is not the best idea as it dehydrates the body – especially your vocal cords. Keeping fully hydrated will not just help with morning voice, but helps keep your voice stay healthy in general. Keeping hydrated also thins the mucus, allowing it to move away from the vocal cords more easily. Our vocal cords need hydration to make sure they are flexible enough to vibrate. When the vocal cords don’t come together fully, it gives the voice a breathy tone (another symptom of morning voice), and when they vibrate irregularly, we hear that as distortion - a hoarse voice. Mucus on the vocal cords can stop them from coming together fully and cause them to vibrate irregularly. When we produce a clean, crisp sound, our vocal cords come together entirely and vibrate in regular waves. This could be down to thickened excess mucus that has settled on the vocal cords overnight. Often, our voices feel and sound a little hoarse, making us perceive our voice as lower. The inability to drain fluids while we are lying down could also contribute to another symptom of morning voice. Late-night eating, drinking alcohol or coffee can also make this flare-up. Some people are more prone to this than others, but an unhealthy or acidic diet could be the culprit. Our vocal cords don’t really like acid on them.
If you have ever woken up with a burning sensation in your throat, you’ve probably had this and it is a surprisingly common thing to deal with. A common cause of this is acid reflux, where your stomach acid backs up into your oesophagus. Of course, anything that causes the vocal cords to swell will make the vocal cords bigger, less able to vibrate evenly and the voice lower, whether with illness or allergies. As long as I am in a good sleep pattern and haven’t reached the stage where I am exhausted, I don’t wake up with such a deep voice. I know some singers who will even sleep propped up before a morning performance to stop fluid collecting. This seems to be a result of not moving in your sleep. I find I have puffy eyes and a low voice if I have gone to bed particularly tired and have slept deeply. So the first thing we need to consider is, are our vocal cords bigger in the morning? The answer could be yes.ĭuring sleep, the tissues in our throat collect fluid in fact, the tissues in our face do as well it’s what causes our eyes to look puffy when we first wake up. Smaller vocal cords produce voices with a higher average pitch, whereas bigger vocal cords produce voices with a lower average pitch. The size of your vocal cords defines how high or low your voice is. Considering they can make a massive noise, they are tiny, depending on the person they are from 1.25cm in length to 2.5cm. When we think of cords, we often think of pieces of string, but they are two pieces of tissue made up of muscle and ligament with a soft outer shell.
Our voices make pitch at the vocal cords.
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