Voice characteristics / unusual voices + chatting to friends

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I have a low, booming voice with a upper-midwestern accent, similar to Jesse Ventura.

I have a London accent and my voice is a fairly deep for a girl. I also stutter a bit when I talk, not alot but I have trouble getting out what I want to say quite a bit. It's not really too noticable but I notice it and some ''friends'' have pointed it out aswell so I guess it is kinda noticable lol.

I never really thought of myself as having an accent until I spoke to someone I knew from Yorkshire and I compared how I sounded to how she sounded. I can be very common/cockney (although I'm not from East London) sometimes using phrases like 'Cheers' and 'Mate.' for friends I also have this weird habbit of saying 'yeah' after things such as when saying goodbye to someone I would say. 'I'll see ya later yeah' I can also be very proper and use phrases such as 'Why thank you kind sir'....

My voice usually copies the peson I'm talking to. When it doesn't it's very monotone.

Always talked through my nose. Had speech therapy as a child, trouble with 's'. People used to ask me where I'm from. (I'm Amurican, and they meant which state.) We moved around a bit when I was young as my dad was in the USAF. I also use British phrases as most Amurican phrases are dumb. I also make up slang and people wonder "where did you hear that?" Made it up.

I get asked where I'm from, as well. I tell people that I'm Canadian. They tell me, "you don't look/act/sound Canadian!" Take your pick - They'll pick out one of those things to tell me.

Put up some voice samples go on you know you want too

My voice is quite chameleon

I've become too monotone recently.

By the way, I like Canadian!

Also, CockneyRebel, there have been petitions out recently to bring back the Routemasters. I look at them in photos and I weep. I miss the Routemasters. I used to hop off them while they were whizzing down the High Street and nearly kill myself in the process, but I loved them and I still love them. Long Live Routemasters!

{That was profound}

My voice apparently sounds deeper to others than to myself - I'm always surprised when I hear recordings of it that it sounds so deep.

I also got called "posh" in school because I have (or had, I've no idea whether I've lost it or not) a Kentish accent, and I was going to school in Suffolk (basically, I'd moved from a pretty middle-class area to a largely rural part of England). In any case, it's often not my voice that I use to convey emotion or energy in my speech - in fact I was told just yesterday that I can announce very strange/inappropriate things in a rather matter-of-fact way, as if they're not even all that unusual - instead, I accompany my talking with lots of flappy hand gestures, which can often get out of control.

Although male, I'm told that I sound like a gay man with a cold. My dad never talked much, and I'm pretty sure he has a touch of AS too, so I learned my speech and mannerisms from my mom, and only changed the ones that caused me to be a target in school. Now everyone thinks I'm gay. I am not, and couldn't be more glad, not to sound homophobic. If I were, it would be a train wreck. I don't identify with males unless they're exceptionally talented or interesting.

I don't have an unusual voice, but I can come across as more than a bit quiet sometimes.

I've done a voice clip so you can all hear my dulcet tones, which you will find here (http://download.yousendit.com/FCFD45D8666A830B, available 7 days from original post).

monotone here.

I speak at a high rate of words per minute. Like twice as fast as the typical Texan. So
people do think I'm from somewhere else. I tend to talk in a high pitched cartoon voices around kids and family. When I play sing I tend to use a high pitch voice and a music major who was a great singer says I could sing soprano.