This is a great thread, actually. I have listened to everyone’s contributions 3-4 times. jsgoddess’ voice is beautiful, worthy of reading books. Everybody sounds so interesting! I wish I could do mine now, but I need to hunt down my headset (that’ll work, right, since I don’t have a mike?)
Where is the quote from? What does it mean?
Check out the link at the top of the OP. It was another poster’s example sentence to illustrate the difference between his perceptions of England English and American English.
Thanks!
I’ve done a lot of poetry readings for various broadcasts, but I haven’t had the opportunity to record prose. I’d love to try it.
Oh boy! Another Vocal Samples Thread!
Here’s me. Southern Ontario born and bred. 
Aw…I tried mine but my mike gets too much static, even when I speak really close.
I’ll try again tomorrow…
JSGoddess - I second that you have a beautiful voice.
And all you Irish and UK dopers do, too. I can’t decide who is sexier-sounding - Mangetout or An Gadai.
I wonder if there’s a built-in microphone on my computer somewhere?
StG
After listening to the other samples, I had fits recording the line with my own voice. My own accent is a bit of a muddle, so I tend to mimic others.
Regardless, here it is: Box
I grew up in Louisiana, and I’ve lived in Texas for the past 12 years.
I was gonna say. I grew up in Zanesville and you really, really don’t sound like you’re from around there.
This may be taken as a compliment. 
Zanesville! I’m in Perry County. No laughing. 
Here’s me. Raised from age 2 in West Central Florida by a Hoosier mother.
And now something exotic…
http://www.box.net/shared/tj61mijg9s
(Germany, obviously)
Listening to your own voice is always a bit odd but a foreign language adds a whole new layer of strangeness.
I have no way (that I know of) to record my voice, which sounds one way when I am doing it for someone and other ways in other situations, but glory, the audio porn in this thread. Even one of the two slightly lispy voices worked.
I was born in California, but I was raised on Upper Midlands (a lot of TV broadcasts, a lot of a very exacting father’s voice), so that’s what I sound like. But I can slide into any accent I’m exposed to given a little time to get the phoneme change right, if only for the duration of the exposition.
Useful for fitting in in new places.
More Radio 4, I thought. I was expecting the shipping forecast.
Me. Born and (mainly) raised in the East Midlands.
Gah! I knew I should’ve created a different account for my soundclip. Some charmer has now hacked that one up there (post #15) and trashed everything else that was stored in it.
My voice file is at the link below, try to guess where I’m from.
Mmmmm I love Mangetout’s voice! He sounds like Jude Law, who I listened to all last weekend as narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
I’m going to record mine now … Fun!
Do you have a cellphone? That’s how I do my samples. I use the audio recorder on it and then send the file to my computer via e-mail or Bluetooth.
I live in Central Kentucky, in the heart of thoroughbred horse country. I’ve never lived anywhere else.
When I hear recordings of myself, I think I sound like a big old hick. See what you think.