# Who do you SOUND Like? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 13, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337 "2006-10-13T18:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/1 "2006-10-13T18:13:26Z")
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. –Beck ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/2 "2006-10-13T18:34:23Z")
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. None of that probably helps. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/3 "2006-10-13T18:42:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/4 "2006-10-13T18:46:12Z")
I sound like a cross between Scarlet O’Hara and a Power-Puff girl. Trust me, it’s not a good combination. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/5 "2006-10-13T18:55:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/6 "2006-10-13T18:57:47Z")
I’m very soft spoken, have a thick New England accent (i.e. I talk through my nose) and I have a stutter. But, dammit, I can write. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/7 "2006-10-13T19:10:34Z")
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. Jim ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/8 "2006-10-13T19:11:59Z")
I sound like a female version of Butthead. The guys just go crazy for it, itellyouwhat. :-/ ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/9 "2006-10-13T19:19:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/10 "2006-10-13T19:25:46Z")
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. - …but still older than I act. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/11 "2006-10-13T19:30:26Z")
I was told by two drunk girls on a country road outside Huntsville, Ontario, that I sound like Kermit the Frog. Unfortunately, having listened to recordings of myself, I must agree. I think this goes a long way towards explaining my unattractiveness to women. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/12 "2006-10-13T19:30:46Z")
I have a face for radio and a voice for print. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/13 "2006-10-13T19:52:52Z")
[QUOTE=DeVena] I sound like a cross between Scarlet O’Hara and a Power-Puff girl. Trust me, it’s not a good combination. [/QUOTE] Depends on which Powerpuff - Buttercup may not be so bad. Bubbles…\ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/14 "2006-10-13T19:53:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/15 "2006-10-13T19:56:46Z")
I have been told more than once that I sound like Bernadette Peters. Oddly, I’ve also been told that I look like her. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/16 "2006-10-13T19:59:03Z")
[QUOTE=Aesiron] 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. [/QUOTE] May I answer? It’s faint. Faint as hell and only really clear in some words…but very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/17 "2006-10-13T20:01:26Z")
Prior to quitting smoking…Marge Simpson’s sister, Patty. Now, one year later, Bob Newhart’s TV wife, Susanne Pleshette. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/18 "2006-10-13T20:01:42Z")
According to all the telemarketers, I sound like **Mrs.** Hypno-Toad. Not very thrilling. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/19 "2006-10-13T20:46:48Z")
I guess it’s kinda deep, and projects fairly well, and I usually talk pretty fast, I’m told. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337/20 "2006-10-13T20:49:02Z")
Raw whiskey and velvet. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-sound-like/376337.md?page=2)