Can you tell what kind of voice you are by hearing someone talk, baritone, tenor

Question:Is it possible?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Is it possible?

no. Most of us talk in the lowest part of our range anyways, tenors as well as basses.
A funny little trick will help, though.( You'll need a piano or guitar, or something with notes for the second half of this) Ask someone to pretend they're on the phone, listening to a yakity-yak on the other end. Your friend only has time to say a quick "uh-huh" as if they are agreeing with the talker. Listen to how the second syllable ( huh) goes up. If you can get them to do this a couple of times, you'll begin to hear how that second "huh" always goes up to the same note. Okay, find it on your instrument.
We'll stick to men's voices here:
if the second huh gets up to an Eb or higher, you've got a potential tenor on your hands. A D or C# gives you a baritone, and lower than that a bass.
I can't give you the footnotes on this, because I've forgotten, but this came from an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist.
It's a fun trick, but I guess he wouldn't have talked about it unless he had hard and fast results.

somewhat possible becuase you may hears them talk low and when they sing it's higher....

but I am in choir and have been for five years....but yea it's almost possible

You can, usually by hearing another talk, tell what range voice they will have. Not in all cases, but a man that speaks in bass, will likely have that as his main range. I speak in a bass voice, can do baritone, but goes up to bass when I project. I can do tenor, but the whole range, nor the whole baritone range.

No. Celine dion has a low voice and sings close to 4 -5 octave.

over time... it is possible. many choir teachers who deal with highschool kids or higher levels can just listen to your speaking voice and be able to tell.

Not really. Most people tend to push their voices down to make themselves sound lower than they naturally are, so they're talking close to their bottom range, but then some high tense or animated people tend to talk a bit higher in their range because it easier to be louder and more defined. So sense everybody is different and some want to talk in their lower range, and others in their higher range, it's really hard to just go on listening to their talking voice as an indication.

I would say that you can form a "decent" opinion or generalization. However, I have been hired as a ringer for several choral productions in the past. On five different occasions I have gone and sat with the Bass section (as I am a bass) and when greeting the person that I am sitting next to I have been told where the tenor section is because they assume by my speaking voice that I am a tenor.