theprisoner wrote:
^ Yeah I've listened to myself recorded, talking, some years ago. Not fun. I must have sounded sound like a jerk or just plain 'snarky' for lack of better word..Of course I'm more mature now. ALso dialects. I speak pretty plain neutral English, but regional accents do creep in. Also my voice, when trying to sing, whatever the song was, it sounded like a fukked up David Bowie. LOL. Oh what i wouldn't give to sing or talk like Jim Morrison, (or look like him for that matter) that baritone Sinatra/Elvis like voice, that must be like the perfect voice to seduce a woman, right? I think so.
Strangely, a woman once told me on the phone that I had a sexy voice. That ran completely against everything I've ever thought about how I sound on a telephone. It still messes with my confidence if I hear an echo of my voice on a phone call. So I guess something inside didn't believe her. Indeed, she might not have been telling me the truth, but it did alert me to the idea that other people might not judge some aspects of me in the same way as I do. And my talking voice can't sound as bad to other people as it sounds to me, or I'd never have had a girlfriend.
Also strangely, if I deliberately talk with an accent such as Cockney, Irish, Scottish, Liverpudlian, Westcountry, British aristocrat, Rastafarian, or American deep-south, my voice seems to sound a lot better. Unfortunately I can't keep that going for long before I make a mess of it, otherwise I might have permanently adopted one of those accents. Maybe in the effort to talk with a particular accent I put more work into the intonation and project it better.