Do you like how your voice sounds?

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21 Oct 2010, 3:16 pm

I don't like mine. I have a personal preferance that my voice have a slightly higher pitch. Not so high that it sounds girly, but my voice has a really low pitch and I wish it were a bit higher. Also, my voice somehow sounds annoying.



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21 Oct 2010, 4:32 pm

O boy don't get me started on my voice. Hearing my own voice is like searching a chalkboard. Feedback on a phone drives me up the wall. It sounds to me like I'm still a 14yr old. I purposely change my voice sometimes to mask it when I'm uncomfortable. Voice is on my top ten dislikes about my self. Prob top 5.



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21 Oct 2010, 4:52 pm

speaking of voices, if I had a choice, I would choose a female voice over a male voice any day. I don't know, its just that female voices sound more clear and soothing. Really low pitched voices are not always clear and sometimes it sounds like mumbling.



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21 Oct 2010, 4:56 pm

I like the way my voice sounds. I sound like a famous drummer that I look up to.


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21 Oct 2010, 5:14 pm

No, when I hear my recorded voice I sound flat and I talk too fast.



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21 Oct 2010, 5:35 pm

My voice is pretty unique, but sometimes I'd like to have more easy voice to use. I can't control it at all.


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21 Oct 2010, 5:39 pm

Leaving aside the problems I usually have with delivery, I don't mind my voice. My accent is an odd mix. I've been back home for six or seven years now and it's slowly changing towards the accent I spent most of my childhood deliberately trying not to adopt (which was a really stupid thing to do)... :lol: Still; I sound like I've a Durham accent to my own ears, but when I hear myself recorded it's much milder.

Singing is another matter. Folk songs often have to be sung in the original dialect and accent or they don't rhyme properly. Most of what I like to sing is North-East and Borders stuff, or American, and it can be quite perplexing trying to work out how to sing them in my own voice. Heh. Never mind the stuff what ain't in English. :lol:


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21 Oct 2010, 5:53 pm

Not one bit.


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21 Oct 2010, 5:57 pm

I dont care for my voice. It sounds too high and weak. I might have nasal problems. It sounds much worse on a recording.



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21 Oct 2010, 6:04 pm

My "real" voice is high and nasal and I hate it, so am vigilant when speaking to keep it low and in my chest. That often discourages me from making the effort to speak unless I have something important to say.

I am more troubled by my inability to sing. I mean just hit the notes--it doesn't have to sound great. My life would be so much better if I could sing along with the radio without getting catcalls, stinknoses and thumbs down from neighboring cars.



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21 Oct 2010, 7:15 pm

I might actually make a youtube video where I'm gonna call it "wrongplanet shoutout girly version". I might. It depends on if I have time and I can't do it with housemates in the house it would sound sooo weird lol. In the video I would talk in a squeaky high pitched sound. I like high-pitched voices.



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21 Oct 2010, 7:32 pm

I sound like a female, I really do. There have been times when I've been mistaken for a woman while talking to someone over the phone. There is nothing masculine about my voice at all.

I'm not saying I dislike my voice, I'm just saying that it sounds overwhelmingly feminine.



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22 Oct 2010, 12:39 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I like the way my voice sounds. I sound like a famous drummer that I look up to.


which famous drummer?



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22 Oct 2010, 12:42 am

i've been told by some old timers that i sound just like buster keaton. if you want to hear what he sounded like in his speech, watch the old twilight zone episode "once upon a time."
my answering machine recorded outgoing message is quite wicked, with a basso profundo blat which was recorded while taking advantage of having a very bad cold one year. my goal was to sound like lee marvin but i sound more like john goodman with a headcold.



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22 Oct 2010, 12:49 am

I love my voice. Most of the girls I've met say I have a sexy voice, anyone from out of state loves my "Florida Accent" whatever the hell that is. I mean I do have a slight hint of Southern in my voice but damn it sounds like any other english to me. I also could take a karaoke version of just about any Vertical Horizon song and make a recording of me singing it and nobody could tell it wasn't the singer from Vertical Horizon.


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22 Oct 2010, 12:52 am

Other people seem to like my voice. I'm not too bothered by it.


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