What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 3:45pm
It's sometimes hard to come up with voices for everyone's posts so what is your actual real-life speaking voice like?
I have a really deep monotone voice that sometimes lapses into this weird Canadian accent, which is odd because I am American. I usually speak very slowly (You can practically hear ellipses in between my words) but when I'm thinking of something, my speech rapidly accellerates. Quite boring, really.
Updated On: 7/10/07 at 03:45 PM
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#2re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 3:48pm
My voice is pretty standard, I guess. I would call it a medium-tone female voice. I speak quite fast and my voice definitely umm...carries (I'm not soft-spoken at all, some might even say my voice is loud). No accent (at least I don't think so).
If I had to compare it to a celebrity - maybe Sharon Stone? I dunno!
Updated On: 7/10/07 at 03:48 PM
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#3re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 3:54pm
Shockingly deep, given my perceived persona. PM me and I'll give you my cell phone number 
Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you.
Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.
#4re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:02pmLike Ricardo Montalban while rubbing rich corinthian leather in his Cordoba.
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
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#5re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:03pmDeep, resonant, warm tone. Don't have the best diction, but I'm working on that.
#6re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:05pmI hate my voice. I would say pitch wise it is lower medium, I mumble a lot, and sometimes I lapse into a Wisconsin accent. My voice doesn't carry well either, I have to make a conscious effort to be heard, whereas my mother and sister carry very well.
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#7re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:07pm
I have posted enough audio and video clips of me on this site that most people probably know.
Akiva
What Lola Wants
Understudy Joined: 6/6/07
#8re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:30pmI hate my voice too- I feel like I sound like I am 12 (I'm almost 27). Although when I need it to carry and sound strong, I can do taht with no problem.
#9re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 4:35pm
Deep, raspy, slow, sniffy, phlegm-filled.
I have the BEST COLD EVER right now. I'm hoping to be a baritone by the end of the week. :3
My accent is a sortof bog-standard English one. A bit less posh than you what you mostly hear in film and TV, but otherwise the same. Except words like "glass" and "pass"; usually with this accent you'd expect them to have the long A song, as in "car", but my family are all from the north and a bit mean, so I pronounce them with the short A, as in "cat". Sometimes I slip into West Country, and I have been known to lapse into rural Welsh at times as well. I pick up accents far too easily. XP
My voice itself I'd say is a little deep for a girl (especially when you bear in mind I'm a soprano) and while I wouldn't say I'm loud, I'm certainly not soft-spoken and delicate either. I don't try to enunciate every last word, but if I find myself dropping too many letters, then I will stop halfway through a sentence and chastise myself. I vary my pitch all over the place but will sometimes adopt a monotone for comedy/dramatic effect.
I've lately started picking up this really annoying habit of breaking midway through sentences. That sentence, for example, would have come out as "I've lately started picking up this really annoying habit of... breaking... midway through sentences". I'm also terrible for not finishing off whole sentences, and will frequently finish speaking with a "so...".
My customer service voice has exactly the same accent, but it is rather more high-pitched and sounds like I am smiling a lot. My daddy taught me you can get away with a lot more if you're smiley, so it not only makes me sound like a good bookseller to the customers, but it also aids me when I decide to play mindgames with them.
I like to think I have good projection. If I say "can I help who's next?" to a queue of customers and they don't hear me, I have no qualms about putting my voice deep back in my throat and saying it again but significantly louder. Imagine a young female Brian Blessed, if you will. Scares the crap out of people who've been thus far hearing me with my high-pitched smiley voice. 
I also really like talking about myself. Can you tell?
Updated On: 7/10/07 at 04:35 PM
#10re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:05pmMine actually sounds like the soft whisper of the wind, while gossamer petals dance through the air before lightly touching the bright green carpet of grass on a summer's eve.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#11re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:07pmDead Sexy with a hint of Southern Twang.
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#12re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:36pm
Pretty deep.
But I sing even deeper than I talk. I'm a baritone/bass vocally.
#13re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:57pmI have been told "cute"
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Conan O'Brien
AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#14re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 7:05pmHaha I love this thread.
I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.
#15re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 7:08pm
Well...my voice is fairly high-pitched, and I talk much too quickly. I have super diction, though...saying things like "wanna" instead of "want to" drives me nuts, so I'm very careful about that! It's very similar to Kristin Davis's voice, actually.
Updated On: 7/10/07 at 07:08 PM
#16re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 7:17pmI sound just like Shelley Winters in real life.
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#17re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 7:19pmmy voice has a gay accent
#18re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:12pm
Folkyboy, that was just funny, but I have no idea why.
People--namely 3, have told me my voice sounds like Alice's from the L Word, but having never seen the show, I don't know if that's true. I would say I have a pretty typical girly-ish voice. However, I am a stickler for diction and correct grammar. You'll never hear "Yous guys" or "Alls" or "Aint" coming from my mouth.
#19re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:18pmbetty boop after a hit of helium and getting kicked in the nads.
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#20re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:27pmBea Arthur on 'ludes.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#21re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:37pmA congested 5 year old....well by now maybe a congested 8 year old.
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SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
#22re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:47pm
Bea Arthur on 'ludes.
Rath, that just made my evening.
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Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#23re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:49pm
I sound terrible. I really do. A high pitched, reedy screech. Like nails on a chalkboard.
This is why I type my posts, rather than vocalize them.
#24re: What Does Your Voice Actually Sound Like?
Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:13pmI've been told that my voice is soft-spoken and monotone, and that I don't open my mouth when I speak.
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