Am I a soprano? Sing two notes and see.
The soprano range is conventionally C4 to C6, two octaves starting at middle C. This page measures where your voice actually starts and stops, names both ends, and shows how much of that 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.
Open the trainer, level 1 free
Or keep it. This range test and all six levels of the trainer are two files that run with the internet switched off, 9.99 on the store. One price, once, nothing to unlock afterwards. Everything on this page stays free to use here, what you pay for is keeping it.
Same measurement, no type chosen in advance. It names the closest of the six for you.
Two octaves from middle C, and what that hides
C4 to C6 is a tidy span and it hides a real asymmetry. The bottom of it, around middle C, is territory every adult female voice has. The top of it is not, and the last few notes are the ones that take years rather than weeks.
So a reading that covers the lower two thirds of the soprano range and stops is extremely common, and it is not evidence against you. It usually means the top has not been trained yet, which is a different statement from the top not being there.
What separates a soprano from a mezzo-soprano
The high note is the least reliable place to look. Mezzos reach high notes, sopranos who have not worked at it do not, and the reference ranges overlap by a full octave and a half.
What separates them is where the voice wants to live. A soprano finds the upper part of her range easy to sustain and tends to sound thinner and less interesting low down. A mezzo has more weight in the middle and pays more for the top. Those are descriptions of timbre and of endurance, neither of which is a frequency, and neither of which this page can measure.
If your reading lands between the two, take the label as a hypothesis rather than a result, and check it against the mezzo-soprano page.
Getting the top of the sweep to read correctly
High notes are where pitch detectors are most likely to embarrass themselves, in both directions. A quiet, breathy top note gives the detector very little to work with, and a forced one is full of noise. Either can produce a reading an octave away from what you sang.
This test only counts notes you hold for about three seconds, which throws away most of that. Slide up rather than jumping to the extreme, sing an open ah rather than humming, and stop at the last note that still sounds like singing. The number will be lower than the one a generous test gives you, and you will be able to use it.
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, Baritone, Tenor, Alto, Mezzo-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.