a weird voice

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I've always been told ive had a weird voice and I hate listening to it on tapes. It's just this quite upperclass heavily british accented monotonous voice even when Im trying to not be monotonous and I speak quietly so people always have to say pardon. Today I just recorded my self and tried listening to overcome it but I can't I hate it. Anybody else have a weird voice or know of the struggles of being vocally abnormal.

I speak with a deep, Cockney monotone, like my idol.

This is the story of my life. I was always made fun because of the way I talked. In Junior High people thought I was gay. I still have a weird way of talking to this very day. This is one of the things I could never improve or fix. I can't stand hearing myself on tape and/or on voice messages. I cringe when I have to watch myself on video or something.

Same here. I've been struggling with aprosody since childhood. I've gotten much better, but I know that I'm still off.

Speech therapy exists, but tends to be expensive. One of the many things that I want to do with my science skills is to create a free software program where it (somehow) uses feedback to slowly train you how to speak with correct prosody. The analysis software currently exists -- it's the feedback/training part I'm going to have to invent. (More on this later...)

I also find listening to my own voice painful. Lots of people do, I know, but for me it's the monotonous quality you mentioned, which many aspies have. I speak in a flat, west coast American accent, which is pretty generic as far as American speech patterns go. I also get asked to speak up a lot, although I don't think it's my actual volume so much as the pitch of my voice and the lack of inflection.

When I was younger, I worked in retail (a nightmare in and of itself) and would sometimes make announcements over the PA. I was asked to do them because I supposedly had a calm, soothing voice (flat and boring?). Whenever I did the store closing announcements, I would get teased afterward that I sounded like the announcer at an airport. People would see me and spontaneously say things like, "flight 732 non-stop to Seattle is now boarding at gate 32c." Then they'd reassure me that my voice was very pleasant. I think the fact that they felt the need to reassure me immediately after poking fun at the way I speak drove me nuts as much as having to make the PA announcements in the first place.

Now I work in the HR field, mostly with payroll, benefits and legal compliance issues. Once in awhile, though, I have to talk to a group of newly hired employees and I always obsess over how I sound in front of the group...like a boring college lecturer, or someone more engaging that makes them feel like a welcome part of the company? Probably the former, but I'm learning to live with it. Just don't make me listen to a recording of myself!

Sometimes my voice is flat, and sometimes it has good pitch - but sounds teh ghay.

But sounding a bit gay (or should I say, cultured) is better than sounding flat.

I don't have a monotone voice. If any of you have ever heard Radical Edward speak...that is my voice in a nutshell, though it changes when i sing. I have been told that it sounds odd but "at least it isnt boring".

Cowboy BeBop FTW! (I'm surprised anyone still remembers that show.)

If you sound like BionicDance, you have to make your own YouTube channel too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmxE0uPWiJc

i have a articulation

I'm pretty well off vocally. I do tend to stutter (mostly cause I think words faster than I can say them) and my laugh is often the subject of humiliation just because it is normally odd and when someone REALLY gets me laughing it gets fairly high pitched (in a female vocal range).

If I don't know the people I'm talking to very well, am nervous or stressed or overwhelmed, I tend to speak in a monotone. I have theatre training, so it tends to either be monotone or over the top. If I'm very comfortable, maybe I'll sound normal.

My family has a joke - this one time my sister told me something she was doing that was cool and I said "I'm excited." but it came out in a monotone... so they tease me by monotoning "I'm excited." every time it's applicable.

I think my voice sounds weird, but everyone thinks they sound weird when they hear themselves.

I dislike hearing my voice played back either on video pieces or answerphones.
I am now used to being referred to as Mrs. X by strangers who telephone my home. I don`t think I have that high a voice.

I have heard many times strangers who answer a friend`s telephone say to them "It`s your friend with the funny voice for you."

Not a lot I can do about it and I`m not interested in having botox injections to my voice box.

@ CosmicRuss

Hey, I think we might be related.

Not aware of any problems with my voice. I have nothing else to say, just wanted to say hello to my Cosmic cousin.

Absolutely cosmiccat, I have now cancelled my Genes Reunited subscription !

p.s. I like the audio on your Marketplace Meditation and listen to Tibetan chants myself hoping to have as deep a voice one day.

The way I talk varies. It can be very fast, unless I make an effort to slow down. It can be monotonous if I'm not particularly interested in what I'm saying. If I'm talking about something I'm really interested it, it gets very animated - people have commented on the big difference!

You can do it cuz!

Throat singing tutorials:

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