I don't normally hear myself on tape but when I did I was surprised how valley girlish my voice sounded like.

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 7:31 PM. Reason : ty]

9/6/2008 7:28:32 PM

hear*

9/6/2008 7:29:13 PM

^lol


i dont like mine particularly...makes me sound more hickish/redneckish than i feel i am

9/6/2008 7:30:38 PM

Not at all

9/6/2008 7:30:39 PM

i seriously doubt you've ever REALLY heard your voice as others hear it

9/6/2008 7:30:57 PM

i was sick the other day and sounded like james earl jones

9/6/2008 7:32:31 PM

when i hear my voice in a recording or something, it reminds me why i get stereotyped as ignorant white trash so much.

9/6/2008 7:33:29 PM

i heard a recording of myself from freshman year.... i sounded like a total stoner

9/6/2008 7:39:35 PM

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"i seriously doubt you've ever REALLY heard your voice as others hear it"

i've always thought i sound weird when i hear myself on a recording...but i've gotten to the point where i realize other people probably think i sound normal.

9/6/2008 7:40:52 PM

i dont like my mumbliness

9/6/2008 7:44:40 PM

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"i've always thought i sound weird when i hear myself on a recording...but i've gotten to the point where i realize other people probably think i sound normal."

the problem, though, is that the vast majority of recordings that people hear of themselves are on low end media recorded with low end microphones...since they're not high quality, it distorts your voice so it sounds different, anyway

9/6/2008 7:55:27 PM

I don't love it but I know I can train it with practice

I want to learn a speech and take some voice acting classes

I'm so buying a Shure SM-57 and an M-Audio usb fast track device to make high-end voice recordings as soon as this grant money comes through

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 8:13 PM. Reason : - grants for the arts - thanks Presbyterian church!]

9/6/2008 8:11:58 PM

I don't mind my voice.

9/6/2008 8:15:30 PM

absolutely not

i have a residual lisp from when i was a kid. most of the time i (and others i guess) don't notice it, but some words i have a hard time with

9/6/2008 8:16:00 PM

9/6/2008 8:17:11 PM

No.

I have a high pitched, loud, nasal voice. For reasons. But that doesn't change it.

9/6/2008 8:22:47 PM

Nope. I've heard myself recorded and I don't like it at all.

9/6/2008 8:29:13 PM

oh hell no. never have. the only thing i have that keeps me from going crazy is the fact that i can tune my own voice out.

9/6/2008 8:30:15 PM

I worked as a traffic reporter for 4 years and still know there are voices waaaay better than mine...I was decent enough sounding to last for those 4 years though

9/6/2008 8:39:38 PM

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"the problem, though, is that the vast majority of recordings that people hear of themselves are on low end media recorded with low end microphones...since they're not high quality, it distorts your voice so it sounds different, anyway"

I don't know if this is the reason, because if you ever hear a recording or watch a video of you and your friends or family, you will hear most everyone else the way that normally sound, and you alone will sound different to yourself. The recording quality is a constant.

9/6/2008 9:15:09 PM

I think I sound nasally and it doesn't sound that way when I hear myself talk, only in recordings. HATE IT

9/6/2008 9:23:11 PM

yes but not on the phone

9/6/2008 9:28:48 PM

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"I don't know if this is the reason, because if you ever hear a recording or watch a video of you and your friends or family, you will hear most everyone else the way that normally sound, and you alone will sound different to yourself. The recording quality is a constant."

i respectfully disagree

seems to me that since you've never actually heard your own voice except through the filter of your own body or through the playback, your mind doesn't have an idea of what it's "supposed" to sound like

while you've heard your friends' and family's voices for years...so it seems like, perhaps, your brain might fill in any discrepancies

or who cares?

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 9:33 PM. Reason : quote]

9/6/2008 9:29:50 PM

Overall I like it, apparently it sounds deep if I've just woken up so the girlfriend says. And oddly older black women like it. Sometimes if I speak too fast it sounds nasally, though.

9/6/2008 9:32:54 PM

^^I could almost go with that, except that in the same way you have heard them for years and could fill in the gaps between how they actually sound, and how they sound when recorded, could you not do the same thing with the way you perceive yourself to "normally" sound?

9/6/2008 9:47:40 PM

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"I don't normally hear myself on tape but when I did I was surprised how manly my voice sounded "

9/6/2008 9:50:34 PM

i got strep throat a few years back and I sounded so damn raspy and grizzled and cool that after a while I was sad to get well

9/6/2008 9:55:04 PM

When I am pleasure I do

9/6/2008 10:02:05 PM

In middleschool, I thought I had strep throat--raspy and sore. In 2 days, my voice went from little kid to man.

9/6/2008 10:02:27 PM

Eh, it works as long as I can keep the redneck out of it.

9/6/2008 10:07:23 PM

"When I am pleasure I do" - Lisa_girl


Words to live by folks.

words to live by..

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 10:21 PM. Reason : ♥]

9/6/2008 10:20:08 PM

I HATE how I sound...People say I sound fine, but I feel like I sound like a man. Just wasn't cut out to be a sex phone operator I guess.

9/6/2008 10:22:54 PM

yeah i like my voice.


i would like to have a better singing voice, but my talking voice is just fine.

9/6/2008 10:22:59 PM

considering i get paid for my voice

yes, i do

9/6/2008 11:54:56 PM

it might be because you're a retarded valley girl?

9/6/2008 11:55:51 PM

I hate my voice because it is weird. I used to get made fun of as a kid about it. Well, actually now as an adult it doesn't bother me quite as much.

9/6/2008 11:57:38 PM

I think i sound weird when i hear myself recorded, but i have a deep voice that ladies like (i think)

9/6/2008 11:57:53 PM

i get weirded out when i hear myself recorded because it sounds softer/more girlie/childish than it sounds to me

9/6/2008 11:58:58 PM

everything i say sounds way better from my perspective...i sound a lot more country than i wish i did

9/6/2008 11:59:38 PM

I don't like the way I sound on the phone, but otherwise, I guess so.

9/7/2008 12:12:36 AM

no, unless i'm tired/just woke up.

9/7/2008 12:48:33 AM

useless without actual voices

post your voice here

9/7/2008 1:02:37 AM

i've heard my voice on a U87 and still was not impressed. thank god i wasn't singing.

9/7/2008 1:08:32 AM

Im not a big fan, im pretty nasal-y

9/7/2008 1:09:28 AM

Guys Like it too

9/7/2008 8:46:21 AM

voices or this did not happen

9/7/2008 8:58:16 AM

no

9/7/2008 9:03:19 AM

i like it well enough. where i worked (since i occasionally make announcements over an intercom system) i've been told i should be on the radio. subsequently i've gone on the state of things on wunc talking politics, and done a few radio commercials for my work place on a different radio station, and will be on there again live for a charity event later this month. i also got a one liner on an nbc17 local politics story saying something dorky like "here's some campaign literature."

i never sound the same on-air or on a recording as i do in my head, and that's a little disconcerting, but i don't dislike my voice.

[Edited on September 7, 2008 at 9:34 AM. Reason : .]

9/7/2008 9:26:38 AM

So for the most part the only people who like them are those who have gotten paid to use them ... interesting.

I don't like mine either. I sound too squeaky.

9/7/2008 9:44:08 AM

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" i've always thought i sound weird when i hear myself on a recording...but i've gotten to the point where i realize other people probably think i sound normal. "

9/7/2008 9:45:11 AM