I can't stand the sound of my own voice

I hate my voice with a passion. I have a strong “lateral S” - I sound like Sylvester on the Warner Brothers cartoons. Unfortunately, I can’t usually hear it, so I can’t fix it, and I can’t afford a speech therapist.

I hate the sound of my voice! When I listen to my voicemail greeting, I think I sound like I am 13 years old. My poor clients, trying to call their lawyer, and this 13 year old is saying, “please leave a message!” Alas…

Another vote for perfectly fine voice.

I sound like a hick, which I can modulate a bit, but most of the time, I don’t give a shit. I hate my voice, too, and I’m a “singer”, haha!

I am really picky about voices and I was totally prepared to hate yours. I didn’t. You sound fine.

I too think this is pretty common. My teammates and I were just talking about this a few days ago here, and we all said that we hate the way we sound in recordings and such. I wondered aloud how my wife could have fallen in love with and married someone who sounds the way I do. :slight_smile:

Join the club. I think it’s apretty common thing.

I am not a fan of my voice either. Never have been. I used to loath watching myself on home videos as well, not just because of the voice.

I laughed so hard.

I have mistaken my brother and my dad on the phone and overhearing them in the other room. My stepbrothers tried to get me to impersonate my dad on the phone. IOW, the three of us sound similar. I think their voices are fine. I hate listening to my recorded voice. I’m sure it’s not really a bad voice, but it’s not the voice that I’ve been conditioned to identify as “mine,” so it sounds off.

My voice sounds quite a bit higher in recordings, and I think it makes me sound more young/immature than I actually am.

For some reason the podcast won’t give me a timebar. Are you the cloth diaper guy?

That’s me.

I think I sound terrible. I won’t voluntarily listen to myself in a recording. But the guys in my WoW raid (both straight and gay–about half the raid is each) tell me I have a nice voice and they’d like to listen to me read them stories. So go figure. :stuck_out_tongue:

Your voice is fine. Attractive, even.

Also you kind of sold me on the cloth diaper thing. For when I have kids.

And that’s exactly what I think the phone is doing to your voice. Cutting off all upper resonances makes your voice sound higher and more nasal.

I apparently do this, too. I talk higher on the phone because otherwise I sound like I’m mumbling. And it goes even higher if I’m excited. I didn’t even notice I did this until someone I met online pointed it out.

Well thank you, but now you’re laying it on too thick. Let’s not go that far!

Glad to spread the word on cloth diapering!