In speech (as opposed to singing) verisimilitude is not in the pitch or the timbre, as you can find a pretty significant overlap in the two involving male and female voices. For about the higher two-thirds of the tenor variety and about the lessen two-thirds of the alto selection, speech mannerisms, subtle and less so, dominate. So, when the AEE/AVNs rolled all over past January, the industry was nonetheless working with its grief.