Beta research · women's health

Track your period using your voice

Your vocal folds are hormone-sensitive tissue. We measure subtle voice biomarkers to help you better understand your hormonal health.

Decibella app showing voice analytics across the menstrual cycle

The science

How do hormones affect your speech?

Your vocal folds are hormone-sensitive tissue. As estrogen and progesterone shift across your cycle, so do the acoustic properties of your voice.

Resonance

Mucosal changes shift formants and spectral quality.

Tissue stiffness

Hormones alter tension and hydration of the vocal folds.

Glottal closure

Hormonal shifts affect how fully the folds close.

Tissue mass

Cyclical fluid retention changes how folds vibrate.

Which can be measured through subtle speech features:

Pitch (F0)
Jitter
Shimmer
Breathiness
Nasalance

How it works

Record01

Record a speech sample

Find a quite space to complete your daily speech tasks- takes 30 seconds.

Log02

Log period and symptoms

Many symptoms are closely related to hormones- tracking gives more insight into how your cycle effects your body.

Analyze03

Understand your health

Get data-driven insights into how progesterone and estrogen fluctuations effect your body.

Your voice · Your impact

Understand your baseline. Advance the science for everyone.

~1%

of funding goes toward non-cancer women's health research.

7–10 yrs

average time to diagnosis for endometriosis or PMDD

34%

of wormen diagnosed with PMDD with attempt suicide.

Tracking your daily acoustic shifts gives you a clearer picture of your own cyclical health. But your impact goes further — by opting in you help crowdsource the world's first longitudinal dataset exploring voice-based risk signals for PMDD, endometriosis, PCOS, and postpartum depression.

Join the beta

Let's fundamentally change women's health research.

Available on iOS and Android.