Do certain tones of voice annoy you?

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I don't like "stabby" sounding female voices...
I am very sensitive to voices in general...so um...I have to take each voice on a case by case scenario...I can't always generalize.
I have a high pitched sing-song childlike voice...and I tend to speak in a voice that I can stand to listen to...BUT...but but but...THere is a type of piercing overly estrogen fueled high pitched voice that I don't like hearing.
I am also aware that my voice is annoying to some people.

My boyfriend has a very round..comforting sort of voice...with a very distinctive quality..though it can be often hard to tell what he is saying...cause he sing-song talks and all the words mumble together when he is not making a concerted effort to talk to someone..likesay...for his job...but I like his voice..it is soothing,,

My business partner has a sorta Kermit the Frog sounding voice as if he never quite left puberty...and that voice can be very irritating to listen to....at times

High-pitched, excited female voice. Palin's voice is especially annoying to me.

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Heh. None taken.

But which British accent? Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins does not have a British accent: not even close, in case you're thinking of that nastiness.
Likewise for that (unintentionally) parodied accent in dross like the TV soap "Eastenders" - but it still has as much relationship to reality as Dick Van Dyke with his "Gor bless yer Mary Poppins, strike me pink an' no mistake" nonsense.
QEII, bless her, is pretty unique with the "Deddy has a JAG-war that goes rind and rind the rindabite" (say it out loud ) "upper class twit" accent.
Then there's the lovely & rounded West-country accents, the sing-song Welsh accents, the unique Brummie or Yorkshire accents.
So many...

(Ok, I'm done now. )

Aaargh, my ears my beautiful ears!
Yes, isn't she a sweetie? She could slice a steel plate at fifty paces just by screeching "hello" at it.

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Think of how Gilbert Gottfried talks with that whiny tone-I hate people who try to hide their intentions by changing their voices-people that try to talk like gangsters in the style of Edward G Robinson-you know when someone say "Hey Pallie" like that-I hate gruff heavy smoker whisky voices-ewwww.

YES! I had to stop taking some DVD courses because the voice of the instructor bothered me so much. I can't watch certian shows because of the voice of the narrator. One of my favorite shows is Hooked: Illegal Drugs & how they got that way. Sure it's a facinating program but I watch it mostly for the narrator's voice.
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Damn. That's a really strange voice.
I tried to watch a program about architecture a while back but had to give up because of the presenter.
He had... this really annoying... way... of pausing and emphasizing... words where no... pause or... emphasis was necessary.

It's like he was randomly highlighting words for the hell of it and I started fixating on the voice instead of the content.

I can't watch National Geographic's Tottaly Wild because the narrator is so irrating.

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I HATE it when girls (only SOME girls do it, OK?) talk baby talk, apparently thinking it's so cute. It's so annoying and disgusting.

I really can't stand intentionally cruel tones of voice, the kind used by the kind of bullies who don't care who knows they're bullies. Like the older brother on Wonder Years. (A show that irritates the crap out of me anyway for multiple reasons.)

Patronizing tones of voice are one of my least favorite. I hear those a lot because I'm in the DD system. And because most people use that voice on me anyway.

I don't like fake tones of voice. Like when someone is trying to cover their real self with a mask, especially for less than honorable reasons. I'm more able to pick those up than many nonautistic people.

Sugary-sweet voices, especially those used by evil twisted people. Like Umbridge in Harry Potter. YECCCCCCCH. Makes me want to puke. Or punch them. (Note: I don't actually condone violence except in certain emergency situations. It's just people like that do a different kind of violence to the world around them, and it's hard to remember that's not the way to fight back.)

Because I have misophonia I have trouble with voices that make a lot of watery moist sounds. There's a woman who comes in to bathe me, and somehow you can constantly hear the moisture in her lips and gums when she moves them. It doesn't help that she's also patronizing AND sickly sweet AND unaware of her own power AND intrusive (has no sense of other people's privacy). So she pushes most of my buttons at once and has no clue how furious I get when she enters the room. At least she's unlikable though. What I really hate is when my misophonia gets between me and someone innocent and likable.

OTOH on a purely sensory level there are some people whose voices have a harmonic that sounds too loud no matter how quiet they are (I've gotten some to near whisper and it doesn't help). And that feels like something is scraping my eardrums.

I'm sure there are others.

There is a guy in my World of Warcraft guild who sounds like this and whenever he talks I want to to tear my headphones apart. I thought he was talking while eating the first few times, but when it became clear that's just how he sounded? Ugh... I keep wanting to mute his voice because it is maddening. Just thinking about it makes me grit my teeth.

for me, a thick scotch burr is so warm and ear-candyish. evelyn glennie [the scottish percussionist] has a voice like treacle.

Female voices do tend to be much more annoying to me than male, but not all of them, and not yours.
My partner's mother has this piercing voice that makes me cringe, and it's never at low volume either. No offense to her. Or any other female. I also know a woman who always talks with that sarcastic tone, and even though it's not aimed at me, I still feel like it is and it really irritates me.

I find deep voices to be comforting.

And I get the thing about the watery sounds. I was working on a project which had a voice actor that sounded like that. I had to mute the audio while working on it. It made me shudder.

That horrid monotonous voice in which the three students sing 'Janet' really irritates me.

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