Datesets from Individual differences in human voice pitch are preserved from speech to screams, roars and pain cries

Fundamental frequency (<i>F</i>0, perceived as voice pitch) predicts sex and age, hormonal status, mating success and a range of social traits, and thus functions as an important biosocial marker in modal speech. Yet, the role of <i>F</i>0 in human nonverbal vocalizations remains unclear, and given considerable variability in <i>F</i>0 across call types, it is not known whether <i>F</i>0 cues to vocalizer attributes are shared across speech and nonverbal vocalizations. Here, using a corpus of vocal sounds from 51 men and women, we examined whether individual differences in <i>F</i>0 are retained across neutral speech, valenced speech and nonverbal vocalizations (screams, roars and pain cries). Acoustic analyses revealed substantial variability in <i>F</i>0 across vocal types, with mean <i>F</i>0 increasing as much as 10-fold in screams compared to speech in the same individual. Despite these extreme pitch differences, sexual dimorphism was preserved within call types and, critically, inter-individual differences in <i>F</i>0 correlated across vocal types (<i>r</i> = 0.36–0.80) with stronger relationships between vocal types of the same valence (e.g. 38% of the variance in roar <i>F</i>0 was predicted by aggressive speech <i>F</i>0). Our results indicate that biologically and socially relevant indexical cues in the human voice are preserved in simulated valenced speech and vocalizations, including vocalizations characterized by extreme <i>F</i>0 modulation, suggesting that voice pitch may function as a reliable individual and biosocial marker across disparate communication contexts.