My voice sounds nasdal. And nasty.
I wish there was an operation to change one’s voice.
Sounds weird. I don’t like listening to my recorded message on the answering machine. My California accent is stronger than it is in my head.
I sound like a 12 year old hick girl. I swear, I can’t hear the accent in my own head when I’m talking, but when I play back a phone call at work I sound like I should be sloppin’ pigs and dodgin’ cousins barefoot in the barnyard.
My voice sounds a bit nasal, and much younger, and if you listen very closely, you can hear just a trace of what sounds like an E. Indian accent…it’s partly that and mostly because I tend to enunciate my words carefully so I sound formal.
I sound like a young girl, but strangely enough, my southern accent almost disappears, especially if I know I’m being recorded. I did get up the nerve to do some voice acting for some machinima recently. Hearing your voice saying the same line a dozen times is weird at first and feels a bit narcissistic, but I got fairly used to it.
A willingness to not hold back and warming up your vocal chords makes your voice sound so much better, and that’s just what I learned in a few days of doing it. I think that if I couldn’t be a writer, I would enjoy being a voice actor, though I’d never be of the level of talent of Harry Shearer or Dan Castellenata.
I don’t like my speaking voice (I sound like a hick), but my singing voice is OK. Maybe because with singing you’re doing more than just talking, it’s a bigger sounding thing.
Interesting that some people’s recorded voices sound deeper, I thought it was universal that people’s voices sound deeper to them in their heads.
I was wondering wtf people like James Earl Jones hear in their heads, they must practically make themselves crap their pants every time they talk.
I have always thought recordings of my voice sounded like a crazed, drunken chipmunk. After reading JKRowling, though, I have realized I probably just sound like Winky in the midst of a bender - except with a Southern accent instead of English.
When I hear my voice recorded, I get to hear why people always think I have a weird accent. I’ve been accused of faking my accent since I was a little kid.
Brave souls can listen here. I’m Julie, not Chris.
Ive always been told my voice is really soft, but I never really realized how SOFT and QUIET it was until I listened to a recording on an answering machine. Its not bad, if I may say so myself. But I always have to remind myself to yell so that other people can hear me.
In my head I feel like Im screaming in a relatively deep voice; in reality people are straining to hear me and my voice isnt very deep, nor very shrill.
My voice just doesn’t sound like me. But I’m stuck with it. 
I used to say that I don’t have a Chicago accent. But everytime I hear my “professional” voice recorded–there’s that damned accent. To be fair, my “casual” voice doesn’t have much of an accent–if I’m tired enough, I sound like my mom, who has a neutral/slightly Canadian accent that’s very hard to place. But, oh brother, when you hear my professional voice, you know where I grew up.
Preach it. I just recorded a ~5 minute feature this afternoon in a professional studio. I’ve never sounded that good in my life.
Robin
I think my voice sounds a lot more high pitched on some recordings than I like and other times it sounds just fine, especially if I know I’m being recorded and purposely make my voice deeper.
MsRobyn – are you and** fishbicycle** by any chance voice actors or musicians?
When I hear my voice played back from a recording I’m always surprised at how high-pitched I sound. When I’m listening to myself talk, I think I sound a lot deeper than I really am. I think most people hate hearing their recorded voice, or at least find it disconcerting; it seems to be a common trait.
Hate it hate it hate it, and I do have to listen to myself once in a while when I review or transcribe an interview. So I’m not surprised at how I sound, but that sort of makes it worse. I can picture what I sound like without a recording, and at times I wonder how anybody can stand listening to me.
We both work in radio (at different stations). MsRobyn will tell you more about her job when she sees this, I suppose.
I am the main announcer at three NPR affiliate stations in the FL Panhandle. I’m a musician, too, but I don’t play much anymore.
Nope. I just wrapped up an internship at my local NPR member station where one of the requirements was to write and voice a long piece (mine worked out to be ~5 minutes or so). Once the engineer finished, I sounded much better than I think I usually do. My “everyday” voice tends to be sorta whiny and nasally; my “radio” voice isn’t.
The rest of the time, I write, voice and produce public-service announcements.
When I grow up, I want to be fishbicycle.
Robin