Do you like it?
Do you have an accent?
Any impediments?
Can you sing?
Who’s got the ideal voice?
Me, I’ve lived in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina my whole life. Really Southern people think I sound like a “Yankee”, and Northerners think I sound like a Southerner. When I was a kid, I took pride in maintaining a “newscasters” lack of accent, but the drawl overtakes me, especially when I’m tired. When I’m excited, I sound like a valley girl.
I’ve always envied Demi Moore, Kathleen Turner… :sigh:… it was not to be.
I am “squeaky” and “crackly”.
Can’t carry a tune in any type of receptacle.
My ideal voice is Ashley Judd’s, but sadly, I sound exactly like Elizabeth Taylor.
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[li]No.[/li][li]I have a chameleon accent. I tend to use whatever inflection the people around me are using.[/li][li]I replace consonants more often than anyone I know. Spoonism, I think, is the term. (Think: Pice Rudding)[/li][li]I can’t sing, but it’s not for lack of trying.[/li][li]I think Garrison Keillor has the greatest voice ever.[/li][/ul]
Sometimes, if it doesn’t sound too high-pitched.
No, not really… though sometimes I pick up other people’s accents and appropriate them as my own.
No.
Sometimes I think I can sing fairly well, and other times… it just doesn’t sound like I can sing worth beans!
I have no idea!
I think I have the midwest neutral voice, but Yankees tell me otherwise. I do say “y’all” but never “et.” My mother is from Pennsylvania, so perhaps she tamed my drawl in my youth.
I like to sing but I don’t do it too terribly well. I can carry a tune, but I don’t have a beautiful voice or anything. I was in the choir in college, though (but never a soloist!).
I think my voice is low for a woman’s, that is, compared with the higher pitched voices of my friends. I have read in public since I was a teenager, so I am fairly good at that, and at one time, at work I did a weekly recording. Oh and I read the newspaper for the blind over a restricted power radio station (or something like that). Anyway, I feel I have a decent speaking voice.
Neat question. I love discussing accents, dialects and other regionalisms.
Other people seem to love my voice and think it sounds very sultry, in a Kathleen Turner/Lauren Bacall sort of way. I haaaate it. All I can hear is the nasality and my leftover Philadelphia accent.
I can sing—not too good, but loud. I can carry a tune in a bucket, if it’s well wrapped.
Ideal voice? I tried to train myself to lose my Phila. overtones by listening to tapes of Joan Crawford. She had the perfect MGM non-regional voice.
Not really, it is (at least I think so) deep for a woman, and on recordings I think I sound like a guy.
I don’t think I have an accent, but to be truthful, yes a “country” one from Texas, and acquired from childhood when my mother only listened to old country western songs. I have a “twang”.
No impediments that I know of except the “twang” when it slips in really bad. (Ask Mtgman about it.)
I always thought I didn’t sing too bad, untill I met Mtgman, he can sing, and he says I change keys about 10 times in one song, so I guess I can’t sing.
I have no idea who has the ideal female voice, but I have always loved James Earl Jones voice. Now that is a beautiful voice.
[hijack] I have always said that the world will lose something when James Earl Jones dies. And I think it will be very sad. [/hijack]
Melissa
-Mtgman’s wife
(could there be any more runons in this one post?)
I don’t like my voice, but I don’t konw a lot of people that do like thier own voices. Probably because they sound so radically different outside of our own heads.
Anyway, even though I was born and raised in Nashville, I really have no discernable accent, but I do use all the colloquiallisms (it wasn’t until about 7 years ago I realized “fixin’ to” was a regional thing.)
If you saw SNL this past weekend, there was a sketch with Alec Baldwin recording an outgoin voicemail, but whenever he checked it, he sounded, for lack of a better word, flaming. I felt the exact same way when I finally checked my outgoing message. I used to suffer with a mild lisp (couldn’t keep my tongue behind my teeth when doing an ‘ess’ sound, but I’ve worked on that and about got it licked.
All in all, I’d rather sound like James Earl Jones.
I don’t like my voice, but I don’t konw a lot of people that do like thier own voices. Probably because they sound so radically different outside of our own heads.
Anyway, even though I was born and raised in Nashville, I really have no discernable accent, but I do use all the colloquiallisms (it wasn’t until about 7 years ago I realized “fixin’ to” was a regional thing.) I’m on the phone talking with customers all over the country and no one can ever tell well I’m from and, when I tell them, usually ask where I’m from originally.
If you saw SNL this past weekend, there was a sketch with Alec Baldwin recording an outgoing voicemail, but whenever he checked it, he sounded, for lack of a better word, flaming. I felt the exact same way when I finally checked my outgoing message. I used to suffer with a mild lisp (couldn’t keep my tongue behind my teeth when doing an ‘ess’ sound, but I’ve worked on that and about got it licked.
All in all, I’d rather sound like James Earl Jones.
(if this posts twice, I apologize. I tried to stop the submit, but you know how that goes…::rolleyes::
I’m ok with my voice. It’s not the greatest, but it’s alright, I suppose.
I don’t consider myself to have an accent; I speak more or less like the people on TV. When I’m talking to people with pronounced accents, however, I tend to unconsciously mimic their inflections to a lesser extent.
I have a lisp. It’s not on the level of Sylvester the Cat or the Gopher from Disney’s Winnie The Pooh (he’ssssssss not in the book!), but it’s there. It gets worse when I’m upset or embarrassed (which creates a downward spiral until I DO sound like Gopher and I just want to curl up and die in silence).
I can kinda sing. I’m capable of carrying a tune, at least. My informal singing voice has no real middle ground - I can either belt it out and lose my tone but at least I’m loud, or I can stay in tune and sing quietly. Formal singing, since it’s a completely different style, is easier for me to find power in while still staying on key, but it’s still not a powerful enough voice to justify giving me a solo.
I would pay cash money for a bedtime storybook on tape read by Ward Burton. “An thuh lil bar sayud ‘theah’s bin sumbuddah sleepin in MAH bayed - an THEAH SHE IS!’”
i like my voice.
I have no accent due to the years and years of being in really good choirs. I used to have perfect diction.
Sometimes when i speak infront of people I slightly stutter, but not too bad and only sometimes.
I love to sing. My SO informed me just yesterday “You are going to be one of those mom’s/older women that sings to the radio like you are in church choir.” I wish I could sing like I was in a band.
Thom Yorke has the best voice. It’s whiny with perfect pitch and tone.
I sound as though I’m twelve years old, which is increasingly a liability as I age. I think my accent is fairly American/neutral - born and raised in Southern California. I can do the valley girl thing all too easily, though.
My singing voice is very small and light and not especially pretty, but I can sing on pitch even if others around me stray.
I’ve heard an ideal woman’s voice, but she wasn’t a famous person so I can’t illustrate. It was somewhat low and very melodious.
I have a very deep for a woman, quite commanding. I have been told I have a “radio voice” good for a jazz or classical station announcer. I spend most of my life on the phone (I am a receptionist for a law firm), so I have picked up a smooth professional schmooze.
A bit of an accent - upstate New York nasal “a” as in “at”. But when I get annoyed, for some reason I switch into some sort of NewYawk-ish accent.
I think my voice is OK, tho it gets kinda high-pitched when I’m nervous. I hate that.
I don’t think I have an accent - I grew up around Baltimore, but I never mastered the Bawlmer “o” or “hon”
No impediments.
I sing alto - usta be Sporano 1 eons ago.
I love James Earl Jones’ voice…
Would anyone like to give an indication of their accent by phonetic spelling? I read an article by English writer Martin Amis recently. It was about how he once went to the United States to interview Truman Capote. Amis described how Capote’s accent sounded to him by using that technique. Words I can remember were Wide Arse (White House) and innerstain (understand). Thyus and thyat (this and that) were possibly included - or maybe I saw those somewhere else, I’m not sure. I am not being derisory in anyway. In fact, if someone liked to create a “teach yourself American” dictionary based on this method they might well become rich. I’d have to think awhile about how to translate my accent into phonetics.
I like my voice and my accent. It’s a normal English accent, mostly sounding posh and occasionally sounding a bit Laaahnden. I can’t sing for toffee but I like to pretend I can.
I aint sayin’ nothing, but those who are interested in what fellow dopers sound like should get a nice treat soon. Heee!
Well, I like to settle in front of the television with a movie like “The Mummy” and a bag of cheese curls and a six pack of beer and… oh, wait… tell you about my voice? …oh, I thought you said vice! I’m comfortable with my voice. No accent, tho’ I was born and raised in Kansas. No impediments and I sing baritone. My idea of the perfect voice is/was Bud Collier, who played Superman on radio, IIRC.
