Not until you said “out”. 
Also, you have a way of clipping off your words, which prevents me from hearing much accent.
I agree with Miss Purl, this has been a an intriguing thread. I’m not sure I could have matched names with voices.
You sound fine to me. Of course, since Hamilton and Toronto are quite close, that’s not very surprising. Great voice though–I kept expecting to hear you break into the voiceover for a movie preview. “In a world where…”
Thanks! Well, for that voice I have to break out the Neumann U87 and the Manley Vox Box, and it has to be first thing in the morning. The later in the day it gets, the softer my voice becomes. I recorded my bit for this thread at about 1AM on a Shure SM58. Big difference!
FWIW, I’m from country Victoria, Australia, and have lived here my whole life. Ditto my parents. Thanks for the compliments, Sunspace and Telperien. Weirds me out a little because I find my voice so unattractive to listen to.
I find the same thing–funny how that works. Although I find my morning voice is aided by plenty of coffee! Still, the right equipment and a good engineer can make a big difference–I listen to things such as what I’ve provided here (which I recorded in my living room with a cheap microphone and Audacity), and then I listen to a couple of demos I did in a proper studio with an engineer and all kinds of state-of-the-art equipment; and there’s a big difference.
Cazzle, your voice is not at all unattractive. It’s very pleasant, and easy to listen to. It is a little odd to hear how you sound from a recording, but that’s because when you speak, your ears hear the sound from inside your head as well as from the outside. (Not sure if I’m being clear, but that’s pretty much what happens.) Anyway, when you hear a recording of your own voice, you’re hearing how others hear your voice–and in your case, it sounds quite nice.
Cazzle, you have a lovely, melodious voice.
Well, this thread definitely has me considering vocal training. I wanna sound like Spoons or fishbicycle. 
I am convinced that my Kermit-like voice is one reason I don’t often make a favourable impression on women. Public speaking skills would be a good idea as well; time to look into Toastmasters again.
Other than that, it’s fascinating to hear everyone else’s vouice. fishbicycle, I think I had the impression that you were a woman, from your username*, and boy was I surprised!
dynamitedave, I was interested to hear that you pronopunce ‘ketch’ and ‘catch’ the same. I had a feeling that someone somewhere would, when it was included in that paragraph.
Spoons, I can so totally imagine you doing that voiceover… “In a world where cheese is forbidden… and the cow is sacred… one man dares… to build a dairy farm. Coming soon… Chuck Norris… Mahatma Gandhi… in… Milk Day Afternoon. You’ll never take samosas for granted again.”
[sub]*It reminds me of the old slogan, “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”.[/sub]
It’s a mistake that’s made IRL all the time. Wait, no it isn’t.
And yes, that saying is where my username comes from.
I had my tonsils and adenoids out when I was seven years old, and that helped to shape the sound of my voice. When it changed, it went to deep baritone, and was rich and resonant, as opposed to thin and nasal, and people started telling me “you ought to work in radio!” And I do.
This is a cool thread! I’m sending my samples through - I’ve done the same samples as dynamitedave so you can compare 2 Kiwi accents. I grew up in Christchurch, in the South Island, so should sound quite different to him.
Great! Thanks! I’ll slap them up on my server when I get home tonight.
(Incidentally, for those of you who were concerned about bandwith usage, I checked my transfer stats yesterday. Adding the vocal samples has driven my transfer usage from 0.0002 to 0.001 of my allotted quota. I’ve got a bit of headroom. But thanks for the concern. )
Dynamitedave, some interesting samples. I had a teacher from NZ when I was in Grade 6, and your voice brought back many memories of those days at school. There is a definite difference in “catch” and “ketch,” as has been noted, and in the “Mary, merry, marry,” and “Don, Dawn, Aaron, and Erin” lines as well. I’ll look forward to the sample from sandra_nz too.
Fishbicycle, I also had my tonsils and adenoids removed when I was seven. It was a common procedure in those days (“Kid’s got tonsillitis? Let’s yank 'em!”) but is not done so much any more. Apparently, medical science has found tonsils to be useful somehow–something to do with the immune system, I’m told, but I’m no physician, so I don’t know what exactly. Anyway, I also noticed a voice change as I matured. Wonder if there really is a cause and effect? Did others who went through a tonsillectomy notice the same thing?
Sunspace, Milk Day Afternoon? Gonna have to work on that one…
I was going to offer to submit one in my ridiculous southern/Tennessee accent but I see the south is well represented here. Oh well. I just like hearing myself talk.
Just emailed you mine, Sunspace.
Yay!
Does anyone here wish their voice sounded the way it does in their heads? I certainly do, since in comparison, my recorded voice doesn’t sound nearly as good to me.
Actually, I’ve always hated mine. Listening to the recordings this time though, was the first time in my life I thought it didn’t sound too awkward. Not that I like it particularly, but at least I didn’t cringe.
eugh
Sunspace, if my recordings are too faint, I’m happy to redo them. It’s the first time I’ve used Audacity, and it’s four in the morning and I’m probably not thinking straight, so the settings could probably have been better.
That would be an amazing thread. Ten Dopers, ten voice samples, match 'em up. If you’re feeling squirrely, you could guess the area they grew up, too.
Ugh, yes. I hate how little-girlish I sound. In my head, my voice is much more mellow and deeper. I “croak” a little when I speak because I got tired of people asking if my mommy was home when I answered the phone, and that was the closest I could get to a lower voice. Much fun was had when I was a sailor in “South Pacific” in high school.
I think we’d all like to hear a lobstermobster 
(and I’ve just realised it’s mobster, not monster :smack:
My brother & I still have our tonsils. Mom (bless her heart) figured if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Got them!