It does. That’s the whole point of this thread.
soft, melodious. I’m told that when I sing I have a “bedroom” voice (guess that means sultry—I’m an alto) Have wondered if I could get a job at a telephone sex thingy lol :eek:
If I know I’m listening to myself, it sounds all wrong. If I don’t, it just sounds like one of my sisters. I know this because I heard an old voicemail message that I had left for my husband and then forgotten.
I can sing reasonably well, but I’ve never been able to make a decent recording.
I don’t like it at all.
I either sound like a drunk, an old lady, or a drunken old lady who is about to cry.
When I try hard to speak “normal”, I sound like a robot. But even still, an inarticulate robot.
Sometimes I wish I could I could put a piece of duct tape across my mouth and be given a pass from speaking ever again.
I’ve been complimented on my voice a few times in my life by total strangers, so I’m taking that to mean it sounds nice to others, but when I hear it in recordings, I’m appalled by how young and little girl-ish it sounds. I’m 33, and I’d like to sound like an adult at this point, please.
Apparently my voice is quite pleasant; I’m often complimented on it and asked if I’ve ever done/considered voiceover work. For me, though, when I hear it… it’s definitely weird. Don’t like it much at all.
To me I sound like Minnie Mouse on helium, apparently I sound like Darth Vader with laryngitis
Many people have thought I’m a man when I answer the phone…
We get used to hearing ourselves in our heads and think that’s how we sound. Then, when we hear the truth, we are surprised. It’s not necessarily dislike because it is bad (though it may be for some) we dislike it because it upsets our view of how we think things are.
I dislike my voice. I sing in bands and make recordings, and everyone assures me I have a good singing voice. Of course I screw up too, don’t hit a note right or run out of breath or something. And I do that performing sometimes too.
I’m not upset about the sound of my voice anymore, but it still surprises me–my tone sometimes in speaking seems harsher than it did when I spoke it.
I like it. However, on very poor recording device, my voice can sound a bit too high pitched. However, many men have complimented on me and told me my voice is nice/sexy. I’ve also been asked to provide adult audio. I’ve been asked to do voice over work, but declined (I declined the adult work too). I’m not much of an actress.
I’ve never particularly cared for it on a recording. But others tell me that I should be in radio, or in a choir, and I know that it’s part of why I’m so pursuasive with people.
I majored in radio/television production in college, so I got used to my “real” voice. I like it fine, I know it’s not a particularly fabulous-for-recording voice, but I can carry a tune and so far have kept my upper register. I had a voice coach in my 30’s tell me my lower register should start kicking in during normal speaking, but I associate that lower register with old women, and I don’t want to start sounding like an old or older lady, yet (I’m 40). So I do vocal exercises occasionally and work to keep sounding “youthful” for as long as possible. I think never smoking has helped with that a lot.
I’m okay with my voice. It’s been described as sweet and pleasant. I’d rather have a cool-sounding voice, though.
When I talk on the phone with people that I’ve met on line that are from another part of the country, most of the time they immediately crack up or comment on my voice. Often they say I sound like Scarlett O’Hara. But when I’m talking face to face with someone, I am accused of not sounding Southern enough. That may be because I get a little shy and talk too fast and run my words together. I also speak a little too softly for some people.
I’ll bet ya’ll thought I yelled all the time. Gee, I wonder why…
I don’t like to hear recordings of myself talking face to face with someone. I don’t think I would mind a phone recording as much. The general quality of my voice is okay, but rushed words or slurred words from a former speech teacher are really dumb.
Zeldar has a an incredible range of voices. You should hear his fake news anchor voice! His natural voice is just marvelous!
I sound exactly like my mother when I hear my voice on a recording. Apparently family members think I sound like her too, when I lived at home it would confuse people as to who was answering the phone. I got picked to do the voice mail greeting on the phones at work, so I must not sound too bad to anyone else.
I don’t mind my voice. I used to think it sounded weird, and I suppose I still do, but after a couple of years of volunteering for a broadcast reading service I’ve gotten used to the way I sound. And now that I’ve had my tonsils out, the strange nasal quality my voice acquired after a year of constant tonsillitis has gone away. My voice is pitched fairly high, and I’ve been told on the phone that I sound young. My range when singing is a little lower than might be expected.
Nice ta meet ya David42. I’m a performing songwriter myself. I have had to work hard at singing and I still dislike my voice. I am a baritone - I sound very much like an untrained Matt Berninger of The National or Stephen Merritt of Magnetic Fields. When I first started playing out I was so appalled at the sound of my own voice over the PA that I grimaced in disgust as I was singing.
A lot of the responses in this make me want to expand on the OP’s question:
- What do you think of the sound of your own voice?
and the follow-up suggested by several responses…
- What do other people say about your voice?
For 1, I think it sounds nasal (though not much worse than other midwesterners), and I talk too fast, far faster than other midwesterners. I also notice a bit of a lisp on 's’es… the word “lisp” sounds like “lithsp”, with the ‘th’ and ‘s’ sounds kind of co-mingling. Recordings sound higher-pitched than I hear in my head.
For 2, I do get dinged a lot on my speed (thanks, end-of-semester student surveys!), no one mentions the nasality, and the only people who’ve ever mentioned the lisp have been family members who have the same lisp. A speech professor noted that I tended to make odd sounds like clicking my tongue when thinking. I’ve also been told that I sound “condescending” or “academic” when it’s not really called for…
It depends on the time of day, but generally I am not fond of it. It’s higher-pitched and sounds very young, and more nasal than I’d like. However, as it gets to evening my sinuses seem to clear out more and it sounds much better.
I do have an excellent phone voice, though, clear and high and very sweet.
I hate my voice. When I hear recordings of it played back, I cringe.
Oh man.
I was telling my daughter how I liked the show Ruby, about that morbidly obese woman on her journey to lose weight, but the way she talks irks me enough that I usually just skip to the end to see how the show turned out.
Later I was showing my Mig an episode and he said I sound just like her.
I never wanted to speak again. Ever!