Helium Doesn't Make Your Voice Higher

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[JBroMCMXCI]

Oh god, he's starting to morph into Vsauce with these outros

[whatiwonder]

My man was having more fun than was legally allowed.

[Shindai]

I feel like homeboy at the end was on more than helium, dude's way too excited about that balloon xD

[Player]

Your sense of humor has come a Long way and beautifully evolved...

[momogoes]

You can make your voice sound like you used helium without actually breathing it in by constricting your airways while you talk, forcing the air to go through a smaller opening at a fast speed.

[Yixdy]

Once upon a time, when i was 13, a 16 year old boy died at a Chuck e Cheese's from inhaling helium from several balloons without stopping to take enough of a breath. Your body doesn't notice a lack of oxygen as suffocation, it notices a build up of CO²

[San-rpfs]

This is the answer to a question I never knew I have.

[davidkray]

The outro is what clinched the thumbs-up for me, boss

[goracks]

Basically helium is less dense than normal air at sea level, and your voice is resonating through less dense air speeding up the sound. If you breathe in Sulphur hexafluoride, it will do the opposite as it is more dense than normal air.

[GamerX-]

We had to use that website you used to show the change in wavelength for physics class at the beginning of the year.

[andrebartels]

This is, because in a tuning fork, it's the metal that vibrates at the given frequency and the air only transmits the vibration. Our voice works differently. The resonance of the throat is a significant part of it. So when the speed of sound is altered, this resonance is altered, too. Hence the higher voice.

[stevenswapp]

very succinct brother! I also love the terrifying ending

[misuzu]

The ending was super weird, but the lesson in this was super cool to learn.

[coreyhenderson]

Missed opportunity to speak the script having inhaled helium.

[sqcredd]

It doesn’t make it higher but it makes a illusion of thinking its more high-pitched

[brenorocha]

Our voice is not a percussive instrument, but a wind one. As such, it produces sound by vibrating the gas which flows inside. (Usually air, but possibly Helium)
So this experiment doesn't apply as evidence of what you're trying to prove.

[diana-FNFFanz]

IS THAT A MOODY BLUES STAND FROM JJBA?!!!?

[kelseyjaffer]

in music/voice terms, we call that a “formant.” :) i’m a voice actor, and depending on how i position my tongue and larynx, i can have a “squeakier” voice or a deeper sounding voice at the same pitch. it’s all about how you form your body’s resonators to get different effects!

[asgharadnanadilzaidi]

Yea. The picture at the end shows exactly how excited a man is at the sight of balloons.

[pointsixc]

A helium scream at the end would have completed it 😂😂