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by AdmiralAsshat 15 days ago
Japan likes their cutesy little-girl voices.
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that's just how their women sound to us. cutesy anime girls are voiced by aunties over 30.
As an addendum: Japanese isn't as all-in on pitch having semantics as Chinese, but pitch is very important. Words have "pitch accent" rather than "stress" the way English has, and overall pitch is strongly politeness-coded.

Speaking higher is politer, and noticeably dropping your pitch is threatening. You probably would pitch-up when speaking to your boss, and people working in shops or restaurants nearly sing welcome/thank you for coming type things.

How would you pitch-up?

Does the entire Japanese population learn these things while growing up?

I think it's called learning to speak.
Don't be smartass. My question was how to change pitch? Most people can't change their pitch unless they have been trained. I can't speak with the pitch of child or woman. Neither are most people.
It's all relative. Nobody expects a grown man post-voice change to speak with the pitch of a child.
So are cartoon boys in the west.
How infantile then
Comparing our culture to others, women in the U.S. are raised to do much the same. Ask anyone woman constantly misgendered for not having a high-pitched woman’s speaking tone (e.g. pacific islanders) and they’ll confirm. Best not throw stones from glass houses.
I don't know, I don't live or am from US.
Well, rephrased then in more literal speak: being less dismissively-judgmental and more observational will go a long way in this community.
Sure, I've been here for almost 20 years. It doesn't change a fact it sounds stupid. I asked two colleagues from Japan and they both agreed this probably wasn't done by a japanese person.