Am I a baritone? Sing two notes and see.
Baritone is the most common adult male voice, and the one most often mistaken for something else in both directions. This page measures your two extremes, names them, and shows how much of the A2 to A4 span you cover. It runs in the tab and nothing is uploaded.
Two sweeps, about a minute each. Your browser will ask for the microphone. The audio is analysed in the page and never sent anywhere.
Step 1 of 2, your lowest note
Your result
One end of your range went past what this page can measure. Below 65 Hz, roughly a C2, the detector stops giving a number it can stand behind, so your real low note is at or below the one shown. It says so rather than printing a guess.
What the microphone actually heard
Low sweep. The dashed line is the note that was kept.
High sweep. The reading is drawn raw, before any octave correction, so you can see what the detector saw.
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Same measurement, no type chosen in advance. It names the closest of the six for you.
Why so many singers land here
Baritone sits in the middle of the male range, which is exactly why it is both the most common answer and the least satisfying one. A voice that is not obviously low and not obviously high measures as a baritone, and that is usually right, but it is right in a way that tells you very little about what to sing.
The span this page measures you against is A2 to A4. Notice how much of it you share with the bass below and the tenor above. The overlap is not a flaw in the classification, it is the classification. The parts were written to overlap so that choirs could be assembled from ordinary people.
What separates a baritone from a tenor
This is the single most common misclassification in amateur singing, and range is the worst possible way to settle it. A great many baritones can produce a note somewhere around C5 if they push, and a great many untrained tenors cannot. Measuring the top note therefore sends people the wrong way in both directions.
The distinction teachers actually use is where the voice changes gear, and how high it can sit comfortably rather than how high it can reach once. A tenor keeps an easy, full sound higher up and shifts register later. A baritone singing sustained phrases in the same place is working, even when the notes are available.
The practical test is not the extreme note. It is whether you could sing a whole phrase around the top of your range and still sound like yourself at the end of it. The tenor page puts the same reading against the higher span.
What to do with a result that says baritone
Treat it as a starting point rather than a verdict. If the measured span covers the reference well and sitting in its middle feels unremarkable, the label is probably doing its job. If the middle feels low and dull and you keep drifting upward, the reading is worth repeating warmed up.
Range also moves. It is wider warmed up, narrower first thing in the morning, and it grows with training. One measurement is a snapshot. Two a month apart say considerably more.
Getting a result you can trust
The test listens for a note you hold. A note that flashes past on the way through is not counted, because a single frame at the end of a sweep is almost always the detector slipping an octave rather than you singing. Hold each end for about three seconds and you will see it lock on.
- Sing an open ah, out loud. Humming is quieter and the low end of a hum is often too breathy to read.
- Start on a note that feels easy, then slide. Do not jump to the extreme, you will strain and the number will be worse.
- At the bottom, stop before it turns into a creak. Vocal fry has almost no pitch in it.
- Quiet room, microphone not too close. A phone at arm's length works fine.
Where the number comes from
The pitch detector is the same one that runs the live monitor and the trainer. It is a YIN detector with a correction pass, and it used to read every note sharp, by 2.6 cents at a concert A and by nearly 30 at the bottom of a bass range. That failure and its fix are written up with the before and after measurements in my pitch detector read every note sharp. An earlier version of the octave correction folded good readings away one frame at a time, and that one is written up in an octave correction that could not tell a glitch from a soprano.
Nothing is uploaded
The microphone stream is analysed inside the page. There is no server, no account, no upload and no cookie for this test. Close the tab and the whole thing is gone. The only file that ever leaves your machine is the result image, and only when you click the button that makes it.
The other five voice types
Each one has its own page, with the same test and the reference range for that type. Bass, Tenor, Alto, Mezzo-soprano, Soprano. If you would rather not pick a type first, the general vocal range test measures your voice and names the closest of the six for you, and the vocal range chart shows all six drawn on one axis before you sing a note.