# Would you like to hear my voice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661 "2006-08-14T13:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/1 "2006-08-14T13:49:34Z")
Here’s an mp3 of me reading the prologue to Longfellow’s _Evangeline_. Post your own file, if you have one, so we can hear your voice! [http://director.real.com/dial?link=http%3a%2f%2fmississippienne.livejournal.com%2fdata%2fphonepost%2f563.mp3](http://director.real.com/dial?link=http%3a%2f%2fmississippienne.livejournal.com%2fdata%2fphonepost%2f563.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/2 "2006-08-14T13:55:32Z")
I love the way you say “oceans”. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/3 "2006-08-15T04:05:54Z")
Oh, thank you **jjim**! ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/4 "2006-08-15T05:11:13Z")
In [English](http://web.tampabay.rr.com/miketurk/english.mp3), from Bai Xiao-Yi’s _The Explosion in the Parlor_\* In [Spanish](http://web.tampabay.rr.com/miketurk/spanish.mp3), from Jacobo Timerman’s _Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Número_ The Spanish one is (IMO) awful – I sound better than that when I’m speaking of things I know well, as opposed to tiny cells occupied by torture victims. \*From a collection of **extremely** short stories called _Sudden Fiction International_, which I have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/5 "2006-08-15T06:14:39Z")
Very nice! Thank you for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/6 "2006-08-15T06:19:48Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Here’s an mp3 of me reading the prologue to Longfellow’s _Evangeline_ I’ll be in muh bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/7 "2006-08-15T16:51:42Z")
I’d rather not post mine. I sound like five school-age seagulls playing band instruments while backing a semi into an alley. You guys sound cool, though. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/8 "2006-08-15T17:38:04Z")
If anyone would like to hear me at work, if you go [here](http://wfsu.org/) at 58 minutes past this hour, scroll down the page to where it says “Listen Now - 88.9 NPR” and click on the link, you’ll hear me at 59 past, reading three underwriters and the station ID. Requires RealPlayer or RealAlternative. Next times I’m on are at :06, :19, :39 and :59 of the following hours - except less often after 6PM Eastern, as there are fewer underwriters at night. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/9 "2006-08-15T17:45:33Z")
If you go [here](http://www.donnabaldwin.com/actors/Male/Maleactor.asp?FirstName=Yancey&LastName=Anderson) you can here my demo for commercials and narration. I don’t have any of my radio stuff up yet. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/10 "2006-08-15T18:03:15Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Here’s an mp3 of me reading the prologue to Longfellow’s _Evangeline_. I hope this doesn’t set off any Southern indignation, but you sound very similar to a friend of mine who grew up in Alabama. [Here](https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/mhender4/public_html/adams.mp3) is a recording me, reading the first paragraph of “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” Chapter 25 in _The Education of Henry Adams_. I tend to sound somewhat more formal and precise when i’m reading from a book. My everyday conversational voice is a bit more relaxed and lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/11 "2006-08-18T08:03:04Z")
Very cool everyone! Keep 'em coming. **Bambi** , you’re a man?! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/12 "2006-08-18T08:23:46Z")
I’d love to listen to the OP’s voice, but the link just takes me to a page exhorting me to download RealPlayer (which I do not wish to do, and seems unnecessary to listen to an MP3). ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/13 "2006-08-18T08:39:55Z")
**Mangetout** click on the link that says something like I have Real Player play the file already. It will open in whatever your system is set to play MP3s in. -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/14 "2006-08-18T09:15:00Z")
Got it. Thanks. I like your voice very much, **Mississippienne** - have you done professional voice acting? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/15 "2006-08-18T12:02:12Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I like your voice very much, **Mississippienne** - have you done professional voice acting? I was about to ask the same thing. You definitely have a great voice for it. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/16 "2006-08-18T19:32:04Z")
No, I haven’t ever done any voice-acting, but I’m very flattered that you think I could. I hope **Agent Foxtrot** can post something – he has a wonderful phone voice, I’ve told him lots of times he ought to go into radio. Here’s another mp3 of me trying to read a passage from Pamela Kaufman’s historical novel _Banners of Gold_, about Richard the Lionheart and his tender romance (!!!) with a young girl (!!!), without cracking up. I swear all this dialogue is Kaufman’s own! It was not exaggerated for comedic affect! [http://director.real.com/dial?link=http%3a%2f%2fmississippienne.livejournal.com%2fdata%2fphonepost%2f983.mp3](http://director.real.com/dial?link=http%3a%2f%2fmississippienne.livejournal.com%2fdata%2fphonepost%2f983.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/17 "2006-08-19T04:32:27Z")
[Here’s me](http://www.audioblogger.com/media/131663/399552.mp3) reading from _Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life_ by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, specifically the entry titled “Radio, Song on”. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/18 "2006-08-19T14:35:24Z")
Okay, I’ll offer a couple of things: [Here](http://betsie.info/librivox/stories_006/after_twenty_years_henry_dr.mp3) is me doing a reading of O. Henry’s “After Twenty Years.” And [this](http://betsie.info/librivox/stories_006/my_financial_career_stephen_leacock_dr.mp3) is me doing “My Financial Career” by Stephen Leacock. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/19 "2006-08-19T16:53:00Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > **Bambi** , you’re a man?! No :mad: ☹ :mad: ☹ 😉 Later on, when I have a chance, I’ll record myself being more conversational. The more I listen to my two, the less I like them. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661/20 "2006-08-19T17:12:09Z")
You used to be able to hear my voice on all the Konica Minolta websites, but now only a few markets are still using it. Here’s me in China. The copy comes up in Chinese, with me speaking in English at the end. > **[KONICA MINOLTA China | 柯尼卡美能达](https://www.konicaminolta.com.cn)** To be honest, it was only meant as a demo. We never thought they’d actually use it as is. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-hear-my-voice/368661.md?page=2)