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Voices
« on: August 08, 2010, 04:13:37 PM »
Does everyone* hate the sound of their own voice, or is that just me?  I was just watching some videos I took on my cell phone.  I didn't realize it recorded audio as well.  I sound like a low-rent Jodie Foster, and that's being charitable.  



*non-professionals, obvy; I'd think this would not apply to pro voice users


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Re: Voices
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2010, 04:15:01 PM »
My voice is flat and nasal. I really don't like it. It sounds harsh and unfriendly.
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Re: Voices
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2010, 04:17:38 PM »
Quote from: Juana la Loca on August 08, 2010, 04:15:01 PM
My voice is flat and nasal. I really don't like it. It sounds harsh and unfriendly.

Harsh and unfriendly.  Mine does, too.  I always sound like I'm coppin' attitude.   :-\
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Re: Voices
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2010, 04:19:17 PM »
I have a low, gravely voice for a female- people always recognize my voice on the phone.  I hate it, but I don't think their is anything I could do about it.  So I try not to think about it. 
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Re: Voices
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 04:23:45 PM »
I think it may universal... I don't like mine either! LOL
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Re: Voices
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2010, 04:27:58 PM »
I don't.
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Re: Voices
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2010, 04:33:31 PM »
Re:  the phone

I've been told all my life that I sound like my sister, and here lately, my niece.  See, I like their voices!  Theirs are low and mellifluous, where IMO, mine's just country and kind of harsh.  I don't think I sound like either of them at all. 

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Re: Voices
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2010, 04:34:37 PM »
I'm not fond of mine, but I've learned to control it.  I also have a difficult time with accents and cadence as I pick them up very easily.
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Re: Voices
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2010, 04:36:45 PM »
When I was doing heavy phone work I deliberately cultivated a more 'musical' voice then the one I naturally possess, to the point where guys would tell me I had a 'sexy' voice. After a few years off the phones it's back to 'normal'- a little flat, unless I'm particularly animated.

I think voice-over work would have been fun.
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Re: Voices
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2010, 04:37:33 PM »
I hate my voice. It's very deep for a woman, and I don't care how many people try to convince me it's "sexy" or "sultry," I think I sound like a 45-year-old chainsmoking man from Mississippi.*


*No offense to any 45-year-old chainsmoking men from Mississippi who might be reading.
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Re: Voices
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2010, 04:49:27 PM »
I hate my voice. Or rather, what I hear in recordings. I don't mind my voice as *I* hear it, which is very different from what I hear on recorded media.
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Re: Voices
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2010, 04:59:10 PM »
Quote from: Information_queen on August 08, 2010, 04:49:27 PM
I hate my voice. Or rather, what I hear in recordings. I don't mind my voice as *I* hear it, which is very different from what I hear on recorded media.

Same here. I think my voice is OK most of the time. But on recordings, I sound like a barbie doll. :-X
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Re: Voices
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2010, 05:22:21 PM »
I remember coming home in tears one day in the sixth grade, because the music teacher sorted us all out by alto and soprano.  I was the only female alto, along with all the guys.  I even looked like a guy, so this was yet another blow  :-\.

I still have a deep voice, sort of like Bette Davis without any s*e*x appeal whatsoever, and if she spoke with a mushed together Ohio and Southern accent.

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Re: Voices
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2010, 06:08:34 PM »
Quote from: blue2000 on August 08, 2010, 04:59:10 PM
Quote from: Information_queen on August 08, 2010, 04:49:27 PM
I hate my voice. Or rather, what I hear in recordings. I don't mind my voice as *I* hear it, which is very different from what I hear on recorded media.

Same here. I think my voice is OK most of the time. But on recordings, I sound like a barbie doll. :-X

Me too! When my niece was very small she got this Barbie doll stuff for her birthday that had voice bites. My family always has me record the outgoing message on the answering machine and I sounded JUST like those sound bites.
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Re: Voices
« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2010, 06:16:07 PM »
Eeeyeah I hate the sound of my own voice.  I think I am too nasaly with a midwest southern mashup.  BF says I sound cute, I think I sound annoying. =/
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