chest voice
Noun

chest voice

  1. (phonology, music) A kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other.
    Coordinate term: head voice#English|head voice
Translations
  • French: voix de poitrine



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