How accurate is this vocal range test?

The note reading is exact enough to name the note, but your result depends on your mic, the room and how you sing on the day, so treat it as today's reading. It only counts notes you hold for about a second. If one note looks wrong, press Redo and sing it again.

Can this tell me my voice type?

No. It shows which listed ranges your notes overlap, and that is an estimate from range alone. Teachers also listen for tessitura, where your voice sits comfortably, and for timbre, how it sounds. Sources list the ranges differently as well. For a real classification, sing for a teacher.

What is a good vocal range?

This page gives no score, because a wider range is not the same as a better voice. For scale, the Voice type article lists each of the six types as a span of two octaves, which is 24 semitones. Your number is a measure of what you held today, not a grade.

Why did my range come out an octave off?

Pitch detection sometimes picks the wrong octave, especially on breathy or very low notes. The test ignores brief errors, but a long one can still get through, for example if it is the first note you hold. Press Redo, sing a clearer open vowel, and move closer to the mic.

Is my voice recorded or uploaded?

No. The microphone audio is analysed in your browser as it comes in and is then dropped. Nothing is saved or sent to a server. The microphone stops when the result appears, when you press Stop and when you leave the page.

Vocal Range Test

Find your vocal range with your microphone: sing your lowest comfortable note and hold it, then your highest. You see the range in note names and hertz, its width in semitones and octaves, and the voice types it overlaps. A note only counts once you have held it steady, so a cough cannot set your range.

Press Start and allow the microphone. You sing two notes, your lowest comfortable one and your highest, and hold each for about 2 seconds.

Warm-up, your microphone and background noise can all change the result. This is a measurement, not advice on your voice. Stop if it hurts.

The microphone audio is analysed in your browser and is not saved or uploaded.

How to find your vocal range

It takes about a minute. Sing somewhere you do not mind being heard, and leave a little quiet around you.

1
Sing your lowest note and hold it
Press Start, allow the microphone, and sing an open "ah" down to the lowest note that still feels comfortable. Hold it for about 2 seconds. Keep going down if you can, then press Next.
2
Sing your highest note and hold it
Work up the same way to the highest note you can hold without straining. Falsetto counts if you can hold it and you want it in the result. Stop if it hurts, and press Show my range.
3
Read the range
You get both notes, both frequencies, the width in semitones and octaves, a keyboard with your range marked, and how much of each listed voice type you cover. Redo either note if one looks wrong.

Next, check whether you hit a note in tune with the Voice Tuner, or see your speaking pitch with the Voice Pitch Analyzer.

Vocal range chart: the voice types and their ranges

Two articles from the same encyclopedia, side by side, because sources differ. The test's overlap uses the first set.

Voice type	Voice type article	Vocal range article
Soprano	C4 – C6	C4 – G6
Mezzo-soprano	A3 – A5	A3 – G5
Contralto	F3 – F5	F3 – C5
Tenor	C3 – C5	D3 – A4
Baritone	A2 – A4	B2 – F4
Bass	E2 – E4	G2 – C4

Both from Wikipedia, read November 2026. The first set is every voice's typical two octaves. Countertenor is left out because the article gives it two different ranges.

Why your range does not name your voice type

Your range is one fact about your voice, and a teacher classifying it would use several others. The Voice type article lists range, vocal weight, tessitura (where the voice sits comfortably), timbre (how it sounds) and the points where it changes register. The Vocal range article says outright that range itself does not determine voice type, and that tessitura and timbre matter more.

So two singers with the same two end notes can be different voice types, and a wide range can overlap several types at once. That is why this page shows an overlap and does not hand you a label. Take "baritone 79%, bass 79%, tenor 67%" for an A2 to E4 range: all three are fair guesses from the notes, and the notes cannot settle it.

These labels also come from one tradition. They were built for European classical singing, there is no system every source accepts, and a choir may just use four parts. If you sing pop, folk or anything else, use the note names and ignore the label.

What changes your result

Run the test on two days and you may get two answers, so treat the result as today's reading.

Warm-up
A cold voice may not give you the same notes. In a small 1999 thesis on eight choral singers, the range measured wider after a warm-up. That is thin evidence, but it costs nothing to hum for a few minutes first and test the same way each time.
Your microphone
Phone and laptop mics can roll off very low notes, so a low note may read as unclear or not at all. A headset or a closer mic can help. Browsers may also keep their own audio processing on; the page asks for it to be off and tells you if automatic gain stayed on.
Background noise
Fans, music and other voices can stop a note from reading, and a steady hum from a machine can read as a low note of its own. Turn off what you can. If the low note looks far too low for you, this is the first thing to check.
What you count
A range you can only touch once is not the same as one you could sing with. This test asks for comfortable, held notes. You decide how far to push, and nothing here is worth straining for: stop if it hurts.

How the test decides a note counts

The page reads your pitch every 50 milliseconds with the same YIN method as the Voice Pitch Analyzer. A note counts when at least 13 of the last 16 readings, 0.8 seconds' worth, sit within a semitone of their middle and the pitch has not slid along the way. Vibrato still passes, because it swings around one center. A single wrong reading one octave off, or the burst of random pitches from a cough, falls outside the middle and is ignored.

One more check guards against a longer error. If a held note lands more than a fifth past your current lowest or highest, you have to keep holding for another 0.8 seconds before it replaces the old one. You will see a line asking you to keep holding.

It can read from about B1 (62 Hz) to F6 (1,397 Hz). That leaves out notes below B1 and the very top whistle register. If a result still looks an octave out, sing that note again with Redo.

What the note names mean in hertz

Each octave doubles the frequency, and 12 semitones make an octave. So C3 to C5 is 24 semitones, or two octaves.

Note	Frequency	Where it sits
E2	82.4 Hz	Listed bottom of bass
A2	110.0 Hz	Listed bottom of baritone
C3	130.8 Hz	Listed bottom of tenor
C4	261.6 Hz	Middle C, listed bottom of soprano
A4	440.0 Hz	The usual tuning reference
C5	523.3 Hz	Listed top of tenor
C6	1,046.5 Hz	Listed top of soprano

Computed with A4 = 440 Hz. The bottom and top labels use the Voice type article's figures.

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