My voice is one of the few things about me that I genuinely like, and I believe is objectively good: I have been told many times that it sounds awesome. I’ve done voice-over work, and a past girlfriend/coworker told me that she used to get turned on in meetings listening to me speak.
It’s deep, expressive and my ‘neutral’ accent is a slightly dirty British Received Pronunciation.
If any lady dopers would like to get turned on, Skype me.
My speaking voice: Yes
My recorded speaking voice: No
My singing voice, recorded or otherwise: It’s okay, which is a plus considering I’m kinda supposed to be a singer.
I like the way I sound in my head. I can’t stand listening to my recorded voice. My spouse tells me I have a decent singing voice (when we play karaoke-type games)–I can carry a tune well, though I have no idea if I actually sound pleasant. I haven’t been brave enough to record my singing and listen to it.
Not really. I have a very mild lisp as a result of a slight overbite from sucking my thumb till I was 11 plus I find my voice to be a bit too deep/masculine. I do quite like my teuchter/weegie hybrid accent, though.
Edit: I cannot sing. At all. My friend’s mother once described my singing as “like a lawnmower breaking down.” I’m aware of it and can hear the horror every time I attempt a tune.
I like my voice but evidently it carries over vast distances, even when I am just talking normally (normal non-excessive volume). This comes in handy if I have to get my husband’s attention when we are at opposite ends of a grocery store aisle (since it’s not shouting but just conversational volume, people who don’t have his name don’t turn to look), but prevents me from saying anything negative about anyone who is even somewhat nearby. The elderly always understand me just fine, even if they are losing their hearing, without my having to raise my voice. In contrast, my mother’s normal voice carried about five inches from her face.
I can’t stand my voice, to the point that there times when I’ll go days without speaking. In fact, my voice was once described as sounding like a trod upon toad.
I’ve been in love with your voice ever since I heard your instructional video on how to use chopsticks.
Other people seem to like my voice. About once a week I answer the phone and the person on the other end says, “Wow, you sound so cheerful!” I think it’s a bit high – it often doesn’t register on voicemail systems where you have to say your choice, and people with upper range hearing loss sometimes can’t hear me at all.
How you doin’? Seriously, folks, while the voice I hear when I speak and the voice I hear in recordings are different, I like them both. Sometimes when I hear my voicemail greeting I think, “Hmm. That sounds nice.”
No, but it’s a weak no. I like my accent (it’s an accidentally learned one, not one I was born with) and I like the way I express things - I’m very good at reading out loud; you’d be amazed at how rare this seems to be, reading from an unseen page, that is. However, I don’t particularly like the tone of my voice. That’s the only negative, but enough to tip it into a ‘no.’
I’ve often been told I’m a really clear speaker, and I do mean to, at some point, make podcasts (or something similar) of my fiction, because there’s so little free audio fiction out there that I might actually get an audience not solely comprised of my friends.