As I am reading along in SDMB, I often wonder what all of your voices sound like…quiet, bold, lispy, accented, melodic–YOU know. It’s hard to “hear” all of you in MY reading voice, I must say!
So if you are inclined, tell me: how do you SOUND? Or who do you sound like? And whose laugh would be most like yours? And obviously if you carry a distinctive regional accent or particular emphasis on words, clue me in!
I’ve been told I sound like Glenn Close with a trace of David Carradine’s lisp (tho my voice is not deep at all), and that my raucous laughter sounds like Bette Midler’s. I suppose not a HUGE stretch as I look something like Glenn, albeit with Bette’s nose and chest. No accent, unless one accords an accent to us Pacific Northwesterners.
What about you?
Help me imagine your voice as I read your written word.
I don’t know whether you even read my written words, but my accent sounds like my mid-Atlantic (Maryland) upbringing, with a dash of (brutally self-repressed) Utah twang from the last eight years. The Maryland accent itself is very neutral; we make popular VO actors for recordings and commercials. My diction is intentionally, self-consciously clear. The pitch of my speaking voice is very average.
I use my speaking voice for a living, but I don’t sound like anybody else! I’m a Canadian without an accent, eliminated from 30 years of speaking into microphones. I guess you could imagine my voice as a deep baritone radio announcer. I’m not always announcing, but I can’t escape the baritone.
I sound younger than I am. I make an effort to be soft-spoken since I think my voice is one of my best attributes…not a good singing voice or anything but I can easily reassure people with my voice, or be a sympathetic listener, sound vulnerable, be sarcastic and dry, or even make it sultry. I suppose I have pretty good control over my speaking voice. Comes from years of my mother yelling “Speak like a lady!” So I learned to train myself to speak nicely around her, and in the process to speak how I wanted.
I don’t have too much of an accent. I do tend to enunciate more clearly than most people I know, so people often think I do because of that.
I have a Suburban New Jersey, not Joisey, accent with a hint of a Bronx accent. Unfortunately my voice is nasally.
I have some odd annunciations due to speech classes I took from 1st to 3rd grade. This is pronounced in words with double consonants such as Kit-Ten. I clearly pronounce both Ts which is not common in this area. My friends at work crack up over this sometimes. I tend to talk fairly fast and a little loud.
I have a nasally, somewhat “nerdy” voice (perhaps better described as a “white collar” worker voice). While I don’t sound loud to myself, others have told me that my voice carries and can stand out among others. I live in and was raised in Idaho, which, as far as I know, does not have a distinctive accent unlike other regions in the U.S.
If I were at home I’d post a link to a WAV or MP3 file of my voice.
I sound utterly unlike anyone famous. Or anyone unremarkable, for that matter. I have a bit of a high voice (high tenor?) that has, on occasion, been mistaken for a low whiskey-voiced female. (I don’t have a whisky voice, it’s just that in order for anyone to consider my voice female, one would have to picture like a 50something old trucker’s woman that smokes three packs a day or something of that nature. Very unflattering, I realize.) Generally though I probably sound considerably younger than I am* and it gets a little annoying sometimes, but that’s me.
Low (but not deep) and mumbly with some Southern flavor, but I don’t really know how much as the only people who have ever commented on it or said it was noticeable were well-aware of my origins.
