Vocal samples thread: how do *you* say it?

In My Humble Opinion
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dynamitedave, sandra_nz, and TheLoadedDog have sent samples. I’m including them into the big compendium, even though I linked to dynamitedave’s samples upthread.
The compendium:

“Poor”, “pore”, and “pour”.

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“Marry”, “merry”, and “Mary”.

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“Mary was merry as she married Terry, but then Scary Larry got carried away and chased Barry’s hairy dairy cattle through the ceremony.”

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“Don”, “Dawn”, “Aaron”, and “Erin”.

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“Boot”, “boat”, “about”, and “house”.

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“The dog went out and about.”

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“Mary rarely rose at dawn, but did so on the day she was to marry Don in order to pore over details such as whether the weather would be fine or poor for taking pictures, who was to pour the wedding wines and pitchers of beer, and to be sure that her poor, overly merry cousin Aaron, visiting from Erin, would catch the last boat (a converted ketch) from the mainland and so would not arrive until about the time the honeymoon bags were put in the boot.”.

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Pronounced by Bambi Hassenpfeffer (Bambi, I must apologise. There’s some kind of weird glitch that cuts off your sample just after ‘ketch’ every time I normalise it and then export it as an MP3.) Here’s the original.
Pronounced by Spoons colloquially
Pronounced by Spoons more formally, as for an audiobook
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“Poor old Paul pored over the book as Portia poured him some porter.”

Pronounced by Spoons colloquially
Pronounced by Spoons more formally, as for a newscast
“It was dawn when Don, Dawn, Aaron, and Erin took off, but Erin made an error in navigation.”

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Pronounced by Spoons more formally, as for a newscast
“I put on my boots and left the house to talk with a man about a boat.”

Pronounced by Spoons colloquially
Pronounced by Spoons more formally, as for a newscast

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Hm. Okay, just listened to sandra_nz and she reminds me somewhat of my current Kiwi friend but only just vaguely whereas **TheLoadedDog **sounds kind of like **dynamitedave ** even though he’s an Aussie.

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I frequently get asked, in my home city of Sydney - born and bred - “Hey, what’s that accent?” So I hope nobody is expecting Steve Irwin.

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I love how you say “away.” You actually sound a fair bit like I was expecting, somehow.

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No prob. I loudened them. :slight_smile:

(Actually, I ‘normalised’ them. It’s in the Effect menu.)

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God I love australian accents. I could listen to that all the time. Sunspace has way more of an accent than I was expecting.

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:: nods ::

Honestly, I think a lot of that is me. Spoons and I are basically from the same place.

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Am I too late to the party? Or is there room for a minnesotan here too? You could tell me once and for all if I have the infamous accent.

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Be welcome!

(What accent? I’m unfamiliar with it… I thought you guys sounded like us. :slight_smile: )

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I found a microphone, and just when I had time to actually record these samples, I found out it didn’t work. :smack:

Anyway, maybe there’s just something I’m not doing right, I’ll try again tomorrow.

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You better fix it, Frenchy, because I wanna hear it.

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Instant Stickler and cmyk have sent samples. Here’s Instant Stickler:

“Poor”, “pore”, and “pour”
“Marry”, “merry”, and “Mary”
“Mary was merry as she married Terry, but then Scary Larry got carried away and chased Barry’s hairy dairy cattle through the ceremony.”
“Don”, “Dawn”, “Aaron”, and “Erin”

And,

“Mary rarely rose at dawn, but did so on the day she was to marry Don in order to pore over details such as whether the weather would be fine or poor for taking pictures, who was to pour the wedding wines and pitchers of beer, and to be sure that her poor, overly merry cousin Aaron, visiting from Erin, would catch the last boat (a converted ketch) from the mainland and so would not arrive until about the time the honeymoon bags were put in the boot.”

And here’s CMYK:

“Poor”, “pore”, and “pour”
“Marry”, “merry”, and “Mary”
“Mary was merry as she married Terry, but then Scary Larry got carried away and chased Barry’s hairy dairy cattle through the ceremony.”
“Don”, “Dawn”, “Aaron”, and “Erin”

Plus…

“talk”, “walk”, “folk”, “balk”, and “often”
“out and about”

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Instant Stickler, eh? Hmm, it’s actually pretty descriptive. Maybe I need a name change.

Instant Stickler! Just add water!

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Ooops. :: blush ::
I knew I shouldn’t have abbreviated your name on the samples…

On the other hand, I’m not sure what this infamous Minnesotan accent people keep talking about is.

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Have you seen Fargo? That’s a perfect example of the stereotype. Think Scandinavian/Canadian

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I couldn’t quite place **Inner Stickler’s ** accent, but CMYK sounds like a friend of mine from Oregon.

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Erm, yeah, about that Minnesota/Wisconsin accent. Maybe ten percent of the residents of the Upper Midwest have that accent. “Ja der hey” isn’t really as prevalent as any filmmaker will have you believe, and the closest you’ll get is a tendency to have a slight Germanic/Scandinavian flair on “yeah” and similar. It’s a little bit sing-songy and a little bit nasal, but not much “howsa 'bout dat.”

Inner Stickler, I can’t detect an accent at all in your voice, which is another way of saying you sound like you come from the Upper Midwest.

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All I know is that when I visited Georgia, the natives would ask me to say boat and then laugh. All I could think was, “I don’t have the funny accent! You do!” Luckily my Minnesota nice prevented me from saying it out loud. I only ever hear myself sound Minnesotan when I say Minnesota for some reason.

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For what it’s worth, I wasn’t saying Minnesotans sound like Marge Gunderson but, if you want to hear a representation of the stereotype, that *Fargo *would be the best (easiest?) way. I’d probably direct someone unfamiliar with a Southern accent to, um . . . a Foghorn Leghorn short? I’m suddenly at a loss for a good representation of a stereotypical Southern accent in mass media.

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Can I play? Can I? Can I? I love listening to recordings. I love making recordings.