"quivering voice" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the sound of someone's voice when they are speaking with emotion or fear, such as in the sentence: "He spoke in a quivering voice, overcome with emotion."
Somebody speaks with a low, quivering voice.
Jean, wearing a blue plaid shirt, low-hanging jeans and black Timberlands, exhorted and sang in his raspy, quivering voice.
("Your Ghost" is this album's light, acoustic exception here, and Mr. Chasny sings it in a light, quivering voice).
Moments later, Moby began to sing in a quivering voice, and for a few minutes the din subsided.
When a phone call was placed to Strawberry's house yesterday, Charisse, his wife, answered with a quivering voice.
Her thick, quivering voice rode three-chord rock songs that accelerated as she wailed about desire and power, and sent her striding and skittering around the stage.
Quivering voices are propped up by picks scraping against strings.
And then there's the collection of recordings about Sept. 11, packed with quivering voices telling of a lost loved one, their memory distilled into permanence through the recordings.
When my father first heard the quivering voices of Minnie Bannister and Henry Crun, the shrill complaints of Bluebottle and the cathartic roars of Major Bloodnok as he dealt with the aftereffects of another strong curry, he assumed there must be something wrong with the speakers.
Hugh Jackman, as the aggrieved Jean Valjean, delivers his numbers in a quavering, quivering, stricken voice — Jackman doesn't sing, he brays.
The ballad "Candy Says," which had Antony of Antony and the Johnsons sharing lead vocals in his quivering, androgynous voice, tenderly described another woman caught between longing and self-immolation.
