Do certain tones of voice annoy you?

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I have a really good auditory memory and remember accents in great detail.
Some accents can be soothing, some can have a tactile type of discomfort and some just really get on my nerves.

For example my mother has the same tone of voice for sarcasm, nasty gossip, and anger. So it's really hard to know which feeling she is trying to get across. This tone makes me angry and want to shut her out of my world.
Sometimes I envision her turning into a scary monster when she is using a strict tone of voice on me. Sometimes she's angry or just correcting me which sounds like yelling but I'm told it's not.
However she has a sweet soothing voice she would use when I was sick or when she comforted me.

My sister is the same. Although 80% of the time her voice irritates me. Especially that laugh. God.

I'm not very good with music notes but I think the lower the note and louder the worse it has a negative effect on me.

Anyone else like this?

Not tones of voices, but when people talk too loud, because I am sensitive to loud noises.

I can't stand that sarcastic tone. The last time that she used that sarcastic tone, was a day that I would rather forget. I haven't really talked to her, since than.

I dislike sarcastic tones of voice.

Loud voices cause me a lot of trouble.

It almost always bothers me when people make intentionally weird voices. I think they mean them to be "funny voices," but to me they just feel wrong and they upset me. I think this is an unnatural reaction, though, and I try to ignore it.

Yes........any voice that's noticeably loud, strident or feisty sends me into shutdown mode. I can't stand most modern TV programmes because the voices are too penetrating.....I'm sck of announcers who deliberately "hype up" their voices to make the boring things they say sound more interesting and urgent. There's just too much intonation and "bubbliness" in it, and it's all fake.

The only radio station I can listen to is Radio 4. Radio 3 also offers the same calm, dignified experience, but the programme content is often too esoteric for me. The only DJ I could stand on Radio 1 was John Peel. I didn't like 90% of the music he played, but his genuine, mumbly approach made me want to give everything he played a chance. There was also Bob Harris on the Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC 2). The late 60s and early 70s were a great time for me because the "underground" music scene was rejecting the razmatazzy thing.

I've described it as if it were some kind of justifiable artistic preference, but it could be that I've just rationalised the sounds I hate as being undignified, when my main issue could have more to do with a difficulty in coping with sudden noises.

My mom has a charmingly manipulative voice and it irritates me. I also get annoyed be certain noises.

there are many people who, when they talk to me, make me start to giggle. i try to suppress it, but it starts to spiral out of control because they have no idea what i am spluttering about, and they then ask me what i find funny in the tone of voice that made me laugh in the first place.

it snowballs until i am incapacitated with laughter, but i know that i am doing irreparable damage to my association with the person who is talking to me, yet i can not help it and so i just run out of the situation. that looks very bad, and i can not think of anything to tell them about why i suddenly started laughing.

it is a serious problem when i meet important clients who i imagine (by looking at them) will talk in a particular type of way, and when they open their mouth and speak, it is so completely different from what i expected that i suddenly brace myself to prevent my laughter. it is like trying to suppress a sneeze, and i lose the battle and snort with an explosive outburst of shackled laughter.

i am seen as a seriously misguided fool in professional settings because i just can not ignore their voice (if it is strange to me) and proceed in a sober and reverent manner.

some people talk like what i imagine cartoon characters may speak (their vocal characteristics become exaggerated in my mind) , and it seems to "tickle" a place inside me where i just erupt and blow my cork of restraint.

High pitched tones make me very irritable and I hate the whiny tone too.

I dislike attempted mimicking of Mr. Bean, also I dislike a fake Australian accent.

Yes.

Sometimes a lot. Some combinations of timbre and emotional content can be very grating.

High-pitched tones yes, especially my brother's girlfriend, my other brother's girlfriend and my niece

i have a female relative whose stentorian voice is a cross between a chain saw in full cry, and an air raid siren, both in timbre as well as sheer volume. it is all i can do just to tolerate her presense, and it takes every bit of my energy to do so, exhausting me in the process.

Most tones of voice annoy me to some extent.

The nasty sarcastic tone.
The condescending "but I'm only trying to help; I do understand" tone.
Any sort of shouting. Especially when it's aimed at me because then I shut down.
The twee, over-bubbly TV/radio announcers. Crap, they even do it on news programs now! (BBC News 24, ToughDiamond? What a crock )
Kids whining, especially when I'm trapped in a supermarket queue too near them.
Anyone remotely like Steve Balmer. (Google if you're going "who he?")
Hysterical high-pitched giggling. It actually scares me.

But I love hearing a Dutch accent. Or Welsh. Or Dorset.

Many, I usually can't estand some language dialects: in the case of spanish ones I don't like the colombian and in the case of english I hate the british accent (no offense to british users XD).

I don't like loud and pitched voices too. But I suppose that is not something related to the AS because many NT people hates that style of voices too.