Forgot—I lisped and slurred and talked 600 miles an hour as a young child, so spent years with speech therapists. I speak fairly slowly and look people directly in the eye but I do lisp when I am exhausted and slur the tiniest bit when tired but am usually very aware of these things.
Fairly deep and even. A bit of a Southern accent, but nowhere near as pronounced as some from other parts of Virginia. I don’t have any impediments that I’m aware of. I sing like I play guitar - with very little skill but alot of heart. I can carry a tune once I get going, but the “getting going” can be a bit rocky. I have no idea who has the ideal voice. I love to hear women with soft, Southern accents talk (particularly when they say “yes”).
I’ve got a voice made for radio and phone sex, and I’ve done both.
I don’t like mine at all. Too monotonous, too little-kid-ish, and, I’m told, usually too loud in public. Bleah. And I can’t sing a note, though I have to try this afternoon because my Czech professor just volunteered me for the Slavic Languages Department variety show (don’t ask).
Oh, and I can’t do accents at all, so my attempt at singing in Czech is probably going to be quite alarming.
Do I like it?
Not really. It’s not too bad, but I sound a bit nasal for my own tastes.
Do I have an accent?
Not that I know of, but I tend to impress German and Japanese people when I speak their languages, because I can get the their accents surprisingly well.
Impediments?
Used to have a lisp. Don’t anymore.
Can I sing?
My voice could be better, but it’ll do. I can do a disturbingly good impression fo Geddy Lee from Rush. (The later stuff, not the earlier stuff.)
Ideal voice?
Don’t have one. I love the way Thom Yorke, Maynard James Keenan, Bono, Edge, Tori Amos, and Susan Tedeschi sing, and I think James Earl Jones, Peri Gilpin, Alan Rickman, Patrick Stewart, Harrison Ford, and Marion from Raiders of the Lost ark all have good speaking voices. Also, I absolutely LOVE the way Ivy in Soul Calibur laughs. That is the perfect evil female laugh.
Do you like it?
It’s ok. It’s fairly smooth I think, but also it tends to sound a bit lazy, not always very clear.
Do you have an accent?
Silly question. Everyone has an accent, yet no-one has an accent.
Someone from New Zealand wouldn’t think I had an accent. Someone from The Rest of the World would.
Any impediments?
No
Can you sing?
No, but I do anyway 
Who’s got the ideal voice?
To listen to, Nancy Sinatra. I wouldn’t want it for myself though, cos… it wouldn’t suit on a basic level 
My voice? It’s quite low. In fact, I have gotten quite accustomed to pitching it higher when talking to people, unless I am really tired. And I can’t tell you how many times I have been called “sir” on the phone. :mad:
I have grown to like it, though. It’s very smooth and distinctive. I have been told more than once that I should do radio.
Accent? I guess it’s generic midwestern, which seems to surprise the people who somehow still think all black people sound like the rappers on MTV.:rolleyes:, but I digress. I think that I have bits and pieces of other accents as well, just because I have lots of friends from lots of places and I tend to pick up people’s inflections. Sometimes I can do really good impressions of people I know and a few celebrities.
Can I sing? Yep. Did choirs and stuff when I was younger, where I often sung 2nd soprano, alto, tenor or baritone. I like my singing voice, but I’m not brave enough to show it off. :o My mother says I sound like Carly Simon; a friend once told me I sound like Joan Armatrading.
Deep. The more tired or sick I am, the deeper it gets. I recall a few times when it was pitched so low, I couldn’t even understand myself.
I also mumble a bit so people occasionally have a hard time hearing me, especially over background noise or other conversations. This is one reason why I hate clubs or crowds so much.
Annoyingly enough, the sound of my voice carries vary well, so people can hear me talking from distance away. :rolleyes:
As for accent…sort of midwest-ish, but I drawl a bit so people occasionally think I’m from California (I’m not).
I’m also tone, pitch and rhythm deaf. I’ve made grown men and women weep with my singing voice. I’d break glass, but I can’t hit high notes. Instead, I make glass seriously contemplate suicide.
Ideal voice? I’ve always been fond of Alan Rickman’s voice. No reason. I just think it would be a cool voice to say villainous things in. Most people seem to think Jame Earl Jones, but having a voice in a similar range, I find having to repeat myself constantly (or deliberately overannunciate) rather annoying.
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I have a deep, baritone which I fondly imagine sounds like an English version of Richard Burton. I am getting married on the 29 December (only a few days to go!) and planned to surprise my wife by serenading her at the wedding breakfast.
Unfortunately, when replacing the strings on my guitar yesterday (Christmas Eve) 3 out 6 of the pegs disintegrated as I pulled them from the fretboard. The shops don’t open for a couple of days here in darkest Norfolk in England and I know the strings need a day or two to stretch. Should I abandon my romantic gesture?
I am just as ready to be seduced by a beatutiful voice as a face or body.
I never thought Jenny Agutter was particularly beautiful but I am readily seduced by her voice.
My all-time favourite though is an English actor called Susannah Harker. She could read the phone book and I would be a salivating, quivering jelly.
Grassman47, sing a capella! It’s your voice she probably loves, anyway. And congratulations on your upcoming wedding. Did you all choose Dec. 29th for tax purposes? 
Like most people, my voice is higher when recorded than it sounds to myself, due to the tone changing effects of bone conduction. I have a Midwestern accent, which was apparently very popular in the 60s and 70s - everyone from Johnny Carson to Walt Disney came from my neck of the woods. That is overlaid with a computer geek sociolect, which means that speech recognition systems work very well for me. When I hear people say that they work terribly, I always wonder what accent they have.
I like to sing, but due to the inaccurate estimation of the pitch of my voice, I start singing too high and frequently run out of range. If I ever had any training, I could probably sing well.
On the other hand, I read out loud like nobody’s business. I read much faster than I speak, so I’m usually able to read well ahead of what I’m saying, and able to give everything I’m reading the proper inflection, and supply different voices to different characters. I’m not just me saying this. I was once sharing a particularly well-written bit from a book I was reading with my wife while standing on the L platform, waiting for the Brown line. When I finished the bit, a guy standing nearby complimented me on the reading.
- I like it fine, as when I change the shape of it and exhale, people seem to understand the noises that come out. Seriously, people have told me that my voice is soothing and that I’m very convincing when I speak. I think I speak in a bit of a monotone, though.
- Not that I know of. I tend to take on others’ accents when around them. It’s some sort of innate mimic skills, as I’m fairly good “doing” voices.
- Nope
- Yup, baritone through tenor, but no training
- Richard Burton comes to mind. John Houseman. Other trained voices of that caliber.
Do you like it?
It is OK, but I know that it sounds different to listeners.
Do you have an accent?
Grew up in S. California, so my accent is not noticeably strong to most others
Any impediments?
Nope.
Can you sing?
Yes. I’ve done a lot of choral work, and some solo work. Barbershop too. Additionally, I’ve done voice-over work for educational videos. I am a bass that can also do baritone.
Who’s got the ideal voice?
I really like the Darth Vader sort of voice.
It’s my voice; I’m generally ok with it. Sounds weird if I hear it coming from someplace outside my head. People tell me all the time that I have a really awesome voice and ought to do voice work. (Or sing, somewhat more rarely.) I dunno. I’d share my voice with you if I knew how. A youtube video might work?
I have several different voices. My standard conversational voice, my phone voice (I work in customer service), and my stage voice (I perform operetta) get the most use. Since I do voice acting, I also have a few character voices.
Do you like it?
I can’t stand listening to my conversational voice – it sounds way too much like Kermit the Frog, whereas physically I’m more akin to Sweetums (the Muppet, not the Doper).
I had several years of bel canto training during and after college. The results were pretty remarkable: more or less the Jim Neighbors effect without the accent. My first teacher urged me to use my chest voice rather than head voice while speaking as well as singing, but I found it too socially awkward – my chest voice is an octave lower than my head voice, a smooth bass-baritone with something of a British inflection (whence it came, I have no idea, it being unconscious on my part). I couldn’t get over the idea that everyone would think I was just being pretentious, and so it is largely reserved for the phone.
My stage voice is similar to the phone voice. It has (at least I like to think so) a deep, resonant timbre that projects well. It’s not as low or as smooth as the phone voice, but gets the job done.
Do you have an accent?
Due to having been raised in the military, my accent is a hodgepodge – most people, when asked, have no CLUE where I’m from. I’m fairly good at imitating accents, and take great pride in the fact that I have fooled several British audience members who took me for being a genuine Cornishman. A helpful talent when you perform in a Gilbert & Sullivan company.
Any impediments?
The slightest of lisps, but for the most part I can rattle off a patter song at a pretty good clip without too much difficulty.
Can you sing?
I haven’t had a voice lesson in many years, and I feel it keenly. I flatter myself that I’m pretty good for an amateur, and since I continue to be cast year after year by a highly qualified vocal director, I can’t be too far wrong. But I’m all too aware of my limitations, particularly as many of my best friends are professional opera singers. I know I’ll never make a living from singing, but fortunately for me the world of Gilbert & Sullivan is filled with character roles that place more emphasis on accent and stage presence than proper vocal technique.
Who’s got the ideal voice?
Hmmmm. Tough one. As far as singing, my ideal is Thomas Hampson. Speaking? I could listen to James Earl Jones read the phone book and be enthralled for hours.
Do you like it?
Meh. I don’t hate it but I don’t think it’s all that great. It’s just a voice.
Do you have an accent?
Yes, I sound very southern.
Any impediments?
Nothing other than stumbling over my words sometimes, particularly when very tired. I think it may also be medication induced to a point.
Can you sing?
I’m an excellent singer.
Who’s got the ideal voice?
Any Scottish man over the age of 18 or so OM NOM NOM
I like my voice fine. I used to do poetry recordings for other poets and got lots of compliments on my voice and readings.
Since there’s no such thing as a lack of accent, I definitely have one. It’s a bit of a mashup of various accents. I’m from SE Ohio, so there’s some hillbilly in there, but my mother tried to cure us of specific features of that accent, and I have picked up some other things along the way.
I have trouble with a few words, like “lilies.”
I can’t sing.
I love Shohreh Aghdashloo’s voice. If I could sound like anyone, it would be her.
We had a thread about accents a while back and I still have the sound file up, so I can be heard here. It will automatically download my reading of the Gettysburg Address’s opening.
Oh my ! your voice is very soft and sexy, makes me just want to lay with my head in your lap while you pet my hair.