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So according to Dan on the 'sharing intimate details' thread, I have 'a booming baritone voice with jolly inflections and everything.' Aw.

But what do YOU sound like? Post speaking samples if desired/available.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

you will hear on the ilx comp (coming soon!!!)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an irritatingly-nasal speaking voice that sounds absolutely nothing like my lyric, flowy singing voice.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan Perry is secretly Kevin Murphy of MST3K.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I sound like Abba

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought of you as being rather softly-spoken Ned, so I am very surprised to learn that you are a booming baritone!!

I don't know what I sound like. A few of us had this same conversation on another MB recently, and ended up phoning each other up to put an end to all the curiosity about each other's voices.

Apparently I sound a bit posh - typical English Public Schoolgirl - but I just think I sound very, err, ordinary really. No discernible accent or anything.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

A few years of smoking have taken their toll, but still a kind of mid-range girl pitch. Accent - generic English, except when drunk or in moments of stress/ excitement when native West-Midlands tones pop back in. I also have madly swapping 'a' sounds as a result of having grown up in the north and now living in the south.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

... I wish I sounded like Abba.

I sound nothing like Kevin Murphy, he's a tenor. Although I have more of a tenor timbre than a baritone timbre in my singing voice, I think. His speaking voice is also a lot fuller than mine; I speak almost entirely in my nose (one of the few things I blame on growing up in Minnesota).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought of you as being rather softly-spoken Ned, so I am very surprised to learn that you are a booming baritone!!

I can be softly spoken but it is apparently a rare thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(You forgot to add a sinister chuckle and say "yes" at the end of that.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Deepish, bit gravelly, bit nasal. Old-fashioned British accent: think BBC Shipping Forecast circa 1960.

― Rex (Rex), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

This is probably the only thing I'm not shy about:

I have an excellent speaking voice. It's deep and resonant and I get asked everyday if I do voice-acting/radio/commercials (the head of a large ad/brand-agency in SF remarked to me: "my wife would buy anything from you"). Fortunately, I've finally got over the notion that it would be like sinking to the level of a dumb model on Baywatch and I'm starting to get into working it (residual income's where it's at - hopefully). I can carry a tune too.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Deep, muddy, a bit monotone, with a Bristol accent that isn't too heavy, but is very obvious on the rolling burr of an occasional R. Rather nasal some of the time - I had three operations on my nose as a kid, but I still don't breathe through it well. Overall: awful.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

ilx comp (coming soon!!!)

YAYAYAYAY (and I never thanked you properly for the other cd, which was very rude, because it's ace. If we are ever at the same FAP then I owe you a drink or several.)

I sound like a pissed-off seven-year-old (possibly a boy but I think my voice is too high) whose accent is a bizarre collision of places I've never lived in. Great. Please can people phoning here stop asking if my mummy is in? Or sounding surprised when I tell them that actually I am eligible for their credit cards or competitions? Mope. I can't sing either, which has been distressing me this evening as I attempt to yowl along to my shiny new Stereolab BBC Sessions cds.

I also sound really posh inside my head, but apparently not to anyone else. I'd always felt a bit awkward about how posh I thought my voice was, so I was simultaneously horrified and delighted when I heard an answerphone message I'd left and it was grumpy and distinctly non-posh in an "OO ARR FUGGIT MOI TRAIN IS NAH' EEERRE UHM ZO ERR PICK ME AHP AN ARR LAYHER WILLYER erm kthxbye" [or maybe not quite] style.

― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I sound like this.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Soft, tenor? range (medium to high?), pretty gay-sounding I'm told: heavily enunciated, sometimes stretched vowels, sometimes too fast. Actually I've heard it on tape and it does sound gay. (Sub)Urban Ottawa (not Ottawa Valley) accent I suppose. Served me well when I sold things and did surveys over the phone. When I speak French, I have an accent and sometimes pause for words. I've had moments where I've been really surprised and maybe a little drunk and slipped into this embarrassing falsetto.

― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

You forgot to add a sinister chuckle and say "yes" at the end of that.

Ah, you noticed that particular verbal tic of mine, did you? ;-)

Fortunately, I've finally got over the notion that it would be like
sinking to the level of a dumb model on Baywatch and I'm starting to get into working it

Hey, Spencer, I get the 'do you work in radio/voiceover' thing all the time as well -- was wondering if I should pursue the voiceover part more thoroughly. I think I might have to talk to you more about this! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Obv. I have a small, childlike voice. When I sing I sound like Tanya Donelly. I like my voice a lot, but I get embarrassed when other people comment on it.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Jody Beth sounds like Lilith from Cheers!!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

If only I looked like her!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes Ned, e-mail me about it. I'm just getting into it and there is semi-serious time and some money investment involved. I've a few books I can loan you whenever we get around to a So-Cal FAP. Forget these NYC people, we can do Karaoke too! and better with our amazing voices!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Rainy's voice is most cool. :-) And yeah, Spencer, I'll chat in e-mail. I figure some amount of work and time is definitely involved, but I've heard of worse situations. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like my voice, and not just in the way that everyone dislikes theirs, I REALLY HATE IT. It's not a big deal, though. I've no idea how to describe it, actually!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

unfortunately lately i sound like an idiot 90% of the time because i am speaking to my baby son in that annoying "motherese" way - the high-pitched sing-song voice and language no one else has a hope of understanding.
apart from that i have an accent that is a cross between australian and kiwi, and though i always thought my voice was nicer ( it was in MY head too rebecca i know what you mean) im afraid i sound pretty damned boring and childish.
cant believe you have a booming voice ned, i had you in my head as a softly spoken chap. so much for that then hey. :-)

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

not too fond of my voice, but I do get the occasional "you do radio?" Qs; it can boom at times but mostly is a somewhat nasal (Midwestern, Minnesotan, right Dan?) tenor

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Heavens, the impression is everywhere! ;-) I don't shout (at least not constantly), but yeah, when puberty hit I ended up with this deep voice. Combine that with my semi-natural state of freneticism and the result is as described.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

when Ned rang me up from the airport, I thought I had won a competition on ZM.*


*I have already made this joke.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

So is anyone else gonna post a wav?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Jody Beth sounds like Lilith from Cheers!!

She (JBR not Lilith) sounds weirdly like an old friend of mine from upstate New York -- just a bit (like 1/2 tone) higher.

― Phil (phil), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Had I a microphone set up handy, I would record something at home for you all. Actually there was an interview with Marc Almond I did on-line somewhere, but I can't find it now...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

name dropper!

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

*weeps* But it's true!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

It doesn't really sound like me, but you can hear my speaking voice throughout this MP3, a little demo/throwaway a friend and I threw together in an afternoon about a year ago. I say "it doesn't really sound like me" because it's an excerpt from a dictaphone tape I made one morning back in college, while still half-asleep, when I decided to start recording my dreams (which lasted under a month).

There've been other tracks floating around the Internet with my singing voice, but most of the sites they were on are down.

― Phil (phil), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i sound like a sexy bitch.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Matos can probably back me up (or refute me), but as long as we're dropping MST3K references I seem to sound -- at least to myself -- like the mid-point between Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson: Midwestern, alternately sleepy and affable, with the tendency to lapse into caricaturized or "silly" voices for emphasis once in a while.

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Despite attempts to modulate my voice, I fear I usually speak too quickly. I really dislike certain speach traits and shudder when I hear them in myself. I sang for a few rehearsal sessions with a musician who went on to write music for advertisements, and he said I sounded like Howard Devoto. Howard Deovoto! And I wanted to sound like David Bowie...

At least I don't look like Howard Devoto.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn, I wish I sounded like Howard Devoto. I'd be walking around singing lines from "Shot From Both Sides" just for the hell of it.

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a big voice. my fave descriptions of my singing come from miss rainy "whoa you've got a good set of lungs", and maxine who described my voice as "unstoppable". a proud moment of my life was after about 15 years finally liking my singing voice. my speaking voice i feel is probbly quite boring and i try not to think about whether i like it or not.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Woody Allen with a London by way of Jakarta tinge. Sometimes. California mannerisms as well (hella, dude, etc.). Increasing chicago southside mannerisms.

True conversation:

10th grade JM: It's like I've used so many voices I don't remember what I really sound like.
10th grade Sterl: Totally.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 24 October 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You sound nothing like that, Sterling.

― Ally, Thursday, 24 October 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i sound like a boy.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 24 October 2002 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, my voice sucks, I hate it so much. And it is apparently very twangily midwestern, which I never really noticed until it was pointed out to me.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 October 2002 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

gareth can explain my "american accent" better than i can

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 24 October 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't sound like a boy.

― Ally, Thursday, 24 October 2002 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone tell me how I sound.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

yes she does. it's cute.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

nabisco sounds like a heavenly tuba

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a contralto voice and probably a few midwestern manerisms (I was born in Maryland but raised by transplanted midwesterners). Did I make enough of an impression on anyone at the Boston FAP for rhem to add any details?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I sound like jess.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Actually, I'm kidding. I have a very deep voice.

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think she sounds like a boy!

― Ally, Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently I sound like a sullen teenager.

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Geeta sounds like a cross between Sara Gilbert and that chick from Third Rock from the Sun.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I probably do sound like a ditzy Ottawa Valley girl - not high pitched or anything, but I have that way of speaking. Like I say "like" a LOT, like and Um... ummm umm lots of ummms... and it's as if I insert extra "e"s into words before "o"s almost like an extra syllable (i.e. you know = you kneow)... and I mumble and, oh god it's just awful.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 24 October 2002 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I've managed to keep the Minnesotan out of my voice. Mannerisms though, that's different. I tend to adhere strictly to the "look anywhere but into the other person's eyes" rule of conversation. And my personal space is HUGE. Like, I'm uncomfortable if you're less than halfway across the room when you speak to me.

― Dan I, Thursday, 24 October 2002 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I have the kind of voice that makes people look shocked when I swear, if you know what I mean. It's fairly high, girlish, and apparently posh (though in my head it is low and neutral). I hate it.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 October 2002 07:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not too impressed with my voice and I cannot sing. Hear me talk: http://www.geocities.com/tora_ko_neko/me.wav

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 24 October 2002 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, the link will probably give an error so either: Right Click on it and save it to listen to (not recommended) or Copy and Paste the link into the Address bar instead of trying to click through.

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 24 October 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I have been told I sound like Jo Whiley. I think I'm quite nasal. I do posh or estuary, or somewhere in between, depending on who I'm speaking to (a result of a move from a perfectly lovely middle school to a hideous, bullying secondary school at the age of 12). I don't deliberately choose my accent though, it just kind of happens. Inexplicably, I used to lapse into scouse when drunk but haven't done so for a while.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, god... goes all over the place. Used to be ultra-posh RP, but when I started having people called Tarquin mocking the upper-class stylings I sort of garbled it round... now it sounds really horrid faux-northern kind of thing. It's an odd 'un.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 24 October 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to sound like J Mascis. I suppose I do have a cockney twang.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 October 2002 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm from just west of Glasgow so I used to think my accent wasn't too thick but when I lived in Exeter people couldn't understand a word I was saying, especially when I was talking to other Glaswegians!

― Plinky (Plinky), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

oi have an annoying middle class Dublin voioice.

I really hate my voice. I'd like to knack it up a bit.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooo!! I LUV Dublin accents...

― Plinky (Plinky), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

My voice breaks when I speak. And sometimes I forget to take breaths. And I think I lisp. And I say words wrung. My voice on the phone = DIRE DIRE DIRE. My voice on tape = DIRE DIRE DIRE. I have not listened to me sing/em-cee and I never will for I ph34r it would be too much for me in my current state of un-prozacked miiiiiiiisssserrrrryyyyyy!!!

The other day when I felt rather ill and I was alone in the house, I walked around singing 'missouri' by low. AKA "oooohhhhhhhh miiiiiiiiSSSSSSeeeeeerrrrriiiiiiiii". I like that old 'missouri/misery' wordplay. It roX0rs.

In the future I will speak entirely through a vocoder.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Madchen I don't think I've ever heared you 'do estuary'. Does that mean you 'do posh' when you're around our mutual friends? Why?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I sound like Ken Nordine with a Maryland accent.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometimes I speak too quietly, and sometimes I speak loudly. Never really had any issues with my voice. I quite like my singing voice.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

think I'm quite nasal. I do posh or estuary, or somewhere in between, depending on who I'm speaking to

The same is true for me! Does this mean I sound like Madchen??? I don't think I do, although now she mentions it I can hear Jo Wiley in her voice.

My school was a mixture of what non-Londoners would identify as Cockney and generic south-east in its accents, with maybe a scattering of RP. My voice tended towards RP at uni and continued in that vein when I moved to Oxford, although I occasionally insert the odd glottal stop or two which must be confusing for people.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I tend to save estuary for school reunions and taxi drivers. I'm poshest when speaking to friends I met when I lived in Florence, all of whom are public schoolers. When I turned up I was something of a novelty. Good grief, she's actually got a job and saved up to come here instead of getting Daddy to pay. Actually, they thought I was *Australian* (I had a tendency to say 'nye' instead of 'no' and also had that lovely habit of raising the inflection at the end of a sentence) but when I came home, Mum was delighted with the cut glass accent (sort of) that I'd picked up - at last, she no longer had to make a 't' sound when I ended a word with a glottal stop.

Incidentally, my grandad used to call every bloke on the street 'gov', but would also say plarstic and drarstic.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone who has met me, do I have a London accent or not?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 October 2002 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

on my answeringmachine I sound like i'm 12. at least that's what other ppl tell me.

I sound like I got a cold
and i sometimes sound like a girl

er....that sounds like momus!!!!!

― erik, Thursday, 24 October 2002 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently I sound more Leicester-ish than I used to. I think this is because there are little or no influences on me, so the REAL THING comes out. I suppose the same thing happens on people's DEATHBEDS. In Spanish I sound like John Toshack.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 24 October 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess I sound similar enough to the Vicar, having grown up in the same town in Dublin. A few people have said I sound like Bob Geldoff, which I can take or leave really. "Gimme all your money" etc.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 24 October 2002 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a little squeeky voice ( well i think it does when i hear it) with a light glasgow accent

― Fuzzy Wuzzy (Madam Plinky), Thursday, 24 October 2002 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I sound a little bit nasal and posher than I think I do but not as posh as my proper respectable English public schoolboy voice which I use when trying to convince the bank to give me extra money. I always hated the sound of my voice but I'm having to get used to it now.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 24 October 2002 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no idea, and don't want to think about it.

(Rebecca = quite posh underneath, then forced through an soortment of unidentifiable local accents. Still perfectly pleasant though)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 24 October 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Me = posh, smug, punchable, higher pitched than I'd like. It'd really annoy me to have to listen to me.

Tim Hopkins has a man's voice. The kind of voice you'd like policemen or or mechanics to have, reassuring and honest. Except when he cackles.

Madchen has a great voice. When she talks, you listen.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 24 October 2002 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

By which he means, when I talk, my foghorn drowns out all other voices.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

A few people I've talked with on the phone for work have commented that I sound like a little girl - one even said that I sound like I'm 5. When I lived with my grandmother (I was about 14), she advised, "Sarah, if you want to make friends, don't talk. You're voice is all ichyyscratchyitchy." Whatever that means. I like the way I sing, but some people tell me I need to project my voice.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 24 October 2002 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

My speaking voice.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 24 October 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I am so so NOT clicking that link.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 24 October 2002 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I've managed to keep the Minnesotan out of my voice. Mannerisms though, that's different. I tend to adhere strictly to the "look anywhere but into the other person's eyes" rule of conversation.

AAAARGH THAT'S WHERE I GOT THAT FROM! I never noticed that as a Minnesota trait, but now that I tihnk about it... AAAAARGH!

My voice impressions from Terrastock: Gareth, Toby and Alan all have excellent voices because of the accent thing. Alan's is the highest-pitched and brassiest, so of the three of them he was easiest to understand in loud places. Toby has an incredibly mellow voice and somehow gives the impression of speaking faster than he actually is. I had the worst time understanding anything Gareth said except for when I sat next to him, largely because his voice is relatively deep and I have slight hearing loss from years of headphone abuse.

Geeta has an amazingly low voice. If she were a singer, think Cassandra Wilson or Toni Braxton (I would have also said Bea Arthur, but while it's the right range, it's TOTALLY the wrong tone and inflection). Her speaking cadence is ultra-rugged; it's excellent! J.Lu has a lower speaking voice, but not quite as low as she paints it. Her speaking cadence is very uninflected-American, much closer to the newscaster accent than any regional accent. Michelangelo talks like my friends from home, which isn't a surprise since they're all in the Twin Cities. Mike Daddino has a very gentle voice; he slides into conversations with this, "pardon me, but I had a small interjection that is completely appropriate for the reigning zeitgeist" vibe about 85% of the time. The other 15% is showcased when he gets flustered or frustrated because he can't think of that perfectly devastating word that will make his next sentence a bon mot for the ages, at which point his speaking pitch goes up and his candence increases dramatically; it's like watching a supercomputer suddenly crank into solving 30 linear algebra equations simultaneously while rendering a landscape scene. (That's not meant as a criticism, as I have a similar thing going on; my tic when I can't think of a word involves me bringing the conversation to a dead stop and saying, "Um. Um. Um," and waving my hands around while screaming "WORK, BRAIN! WORK! YOU'RE MAKING ME LOOK LIKE A SAD FUCK!" inside my head.)

Mr. Noodles has a full-on Canadian accent; his vowels are very closed and there's an undeniable swing to his speaking cadence which reminded me of home. (I'd forgotten how similar the Minnesota and Ontario accents are.) Lyra's voice is fairly quiet and sweet; it lies about mid-range and she's got a fairly neutral accent. Chris Barrus has a very flat speaking tone; most of his speech lies in a very buzzy range and is fairly monotone. He also has a very measured cadence where most words get fairly equal stress.

Argh, I'm forgetting someone, aren't I?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

aw, now i want the "dan perry treatment."

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 October 2002 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

An extremely APT description of Mike D's speaking voice, Dan. Has he ever done his Monster Truck Announcer Voice in your presence?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 24 October 2002 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I have not heard the Monster Truck Announcer Voice. Suddenly my life seems pale and empty.

Can I make money from analyzing people's speech patterns?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably, people are always wanting things analyzed. There are pet therapists, after all.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

dan i cannot believe i gave you an opening like that and you let it go. for shame.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to say, "Jess sounds exactly like Britney Spears when she gets all girly and excited," but I was afraid that I might be right.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

dan - are you deliberately holding back while jess bends over for you?

all yr terrastock voice comments are unbelievably spot-on. "incredibly mellow" - ha that makes my day.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"Tim Hopkins has a man's voice. The kind of voice you'd like policemen or or mechanics to have, reassuring and honest. Except when he cackles."

Mark finds people from the West Country reassuring. Hah. And he thinks I'm much posher than I am, the little tyke. Ooo-aRRrrrr.

I have a very standard (if fairly low for a girl) speaking voice with accents that vary according to who I'm speaking to and how nervous/excited I am, since I'm good at accents and have spent so long imitating other people that I have no regional voice personality of my own.

And a penetrating soprano singing voice with absolutely no vibrato. Think choirboy, which is most bizarre given my physiognomy.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, great, so if / when I finally meet Dang, I KNOW I'm going to subconsciously try & impress him with my throaty sleepers.

I've been told I have a voice for radio. These same people (women between the ages of 45 and 65) also told me I'm very handsome, which is true, of course, but, y'know, a little positive PEER appraisal would be nice, too (daughters hint hint). I sound better in my head than on tape. If I'm not busy mulching sentences with the SuperTongue 3000, you might be able to discern that I have a fairly pleasant baritone-y voice. I tend to be LOUD, though - my volume knob broke a while back.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Toby: That particular version of the Dan Perry Treatment only goes to one special lady, and that lady ain't Jess. (argh I can't say that, delete delete NO NOT SUBMIT YOU FOOL)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Trying to describe a human voice is like trying to describe a human face. It's a good demonstration of the limits of the power of words. If one of these people phoned you now, would you recognise them from written descriptions of their voices?

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i am now satisfied dan.

― take that any way you want to. (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I have heard the following people talking on tape: Tim Hopkins, Jerry the Nipper and The Pinefox. Of the three I think I found Jerry the Nipper the most reassuring, a bit like Pete Murray on Tim Buckley's 'Dream Letter' LP.

But all this is a very long time ago, and they might have been employing someone else to do their talking for them.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

If Pete Baran took singing lessons, he would be an excellent lyric tenor a la Ian Bostridge.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Well hello. If anyone is going to sound like Ian Bostridge I reserve the right to kidnap them and keep them in my cellar for my very own exclusive listening pleasure. Rrrowr.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Great, now Pete has a stalker.

I lurv all these Dan voice descriptions. The one of Mike is particularly wonderful. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I was expecting Momus to have a much stronger accent but he just sounds posh!

Not that I'm narcissitic or anything but did anyone listen to my .wav? It's just that it took half an hour for me to find a microphone, some software and to say something without sounding like a kiwi or a total dick.

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Not that there's anything wrong with sounding like a kiwi!

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Am not a stalker really, I just have a thing about Bostridge. There's something spookily Bambi-esque about him. And the voice, of course. It would be great if I could steal nice voices and keep them under the bed miser-fashion. This is the problem with listening to too much music and the radio a lot.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I had to turn the volume of my computer up ultrasuperloud to hear Toraneko's .wav, and then something caused the computer bell to ring in my headphones OOOOWWWWWWW.

Your voice is very sweet sounding; very clear and melodic with a hint of reserve. Your speaking cadence is faster than I imagined it would be. I don't know enough about Australian/New Zealand accents to comment on that (beyond wondering exactly where the hell Paul Hogan came from, as no other Australian I've heard sounds like him).

Momus sounds like an literature professor; his voice is much more conservative than I imagined. It's a fairly rich baritone with a slight Scottish burr to it; the cadence isn't slow but is deliberate; you can tell that he's had a good amount of stage experience in both enunciation and how he stresses words for clarity.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

toraneko, you do have quite a strong tasmanian accent which i wouldn't have known if it weren't for my tasmanian friend amy who sounds EXACTLY like you

― minna (minna), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Various of us can be heard here.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Cool! I got the Dan Perry treatment. I feel good now.

Minna, the further north I go the more often my accent is picked as Kiwi or Sth African(!?!). Of course, I think I sound normal.

I've fixed up the levels now. Address is still: http://www.geocities.com/tora_ko_neko/me.wav (copy & paste, don't click through)

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

(Upon review, I may have overstated the Pete Baran = Ian Bostridge comparison a bit. It's more of a speaking voice thing.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Troaneko sounds wonderful.

I want to punch Momus even more.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I quite like Pete's version of Take On Me, and the audience participation is great.

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 24 October 2002 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to punch Momus even more.

The text I'm reading is something Yohji Yamamoto said, so perhaps it's him you want to punch. But you probably want to punch me for some technical quality like timbre. That would be so typical of my life, to be punched for timbre.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i like momus' voice a lot.

― minna (minna), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe it's the accent, but how can you mispronounce "twat" as "timbre"?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

hah what jess said.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you for that comment, Jizz... I mean, Jess.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Toraneko most definitely has a spiff voice. :-) As does Momus, so there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

'punched for timbre' (luke vibert remix)

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned sounds like someone off telly! And like a grown-up too.

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hullo, this is Ned Raggett on KUCI in Irvine, 88.9 FM with 'Scattered Ruminations.'"

DJ spiel. Ya gotta love it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I dreamed I saw Dan's wife Joei. She was white (just typed 'shite' but could not leave it) and sang very nicely.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 October 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Like.........
(Non
Billy-Connolly-Glaswegian or Proclaimers-Fifer or Irvine-Welsh-Schemie or Dr-Finlays-Casebook-Highlander or Miss-Jean-Brodie-Refained or Shawn-Connery-Shlur or Mike-DickHead-Myers-Comedy-Exaggerated)
............scottish.

(From his posts I imagine Momus sounding like a male version of Miss Jean Brodie, or one of those Edinburgh-Posh characters who usually wear a kilt at special occasions even though they're about as scottish as Queen Victoria's tits (both them and the kilts).

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 24 October 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick: Change "white" to "black and wearing a top that ostentatiously features BOOBS" and you'd be OTM.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it impolite to mention the BOOBS.

Momus learned to speak off Radio 4, I believe.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 24 October 2002 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Snowy: I am basically Miss Jean Brodie. One day my girls will see the splendour of Florence.

Momus learned to speak off Radio 4, I believe.

Do you mean 'the Home Service'? Don't say they've gone and changed the name?

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY I did another one.

(Sigmund Freud, analyze deeesss.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody, don't hurt me but you have a slight "NPR-commentator-on-caffeine" vibe going on. Your tone has a mild nasal quality with a very clear core and your pacing and enunciation again lead me to believe that you've done stage/radio work or a good amount of public speaking. I realize you're reading and that factors into it, but you're featuring the "It's storytime, my darling child" candance VERY STRONGLY here.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody, don't hurt me but you have a slight "NPR-commentator-on-caffeine" vibe going on.

IT'S SATIRE YOU ASSHOLE

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey! It's "CUTE WIDDLE ASSHOLE"! Get it RIGHT next time!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"This is Jody Beth Rosen, for National Public Radio. Today we'll be exploring the ins and outs of Dan Perry's "Cute Widdle Asshole."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a deep, man-like voice.

― Mandee, Thursday, 24 October 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

momus PLEASE record yrself saying this: "to find out what happens to bernard the bunny, turn the page" *sparkly sound* (ps. don't say "sparkly sound")

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 24 October 2002 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Toraneko, can I use the bit about the dogs in a song?

Dan, can I see your wife's boobs?

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 24 October 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Toraneko, can I use the bit about the dogs in a song?

Haha! I thought the same thing and was planning to appropriate it.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, can I see your wife's boobs?

I was going to link the Terrastock pictures but she hides them with one of my scarves. So, no you PERV.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 October 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

perhaps unsurprisingly, i gave up sounding a while ago

― Honda, Thursday, 24 October 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

nabisco has a very neutral Colorado non-accent with a soothing tonal quality.

Josh does sound a little like a sullen teenager. A sullen teenage philosopher.

There is an inverse relationship between my alcohol consumption and my ability to keep the latent Midwestern farmer twang/Asian lisp out my voice.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 24 October 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

latent Midwestern farmer twang

No way. You sound like you just got home from Swiss boarding school! :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 October 2002 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

neutral Colorado non-accent

I am from Colorado and I've been told that I have a twang--maybe it's just me and my being a redneck, though.

― Mandee, Thursday, 24 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Felicity, you actually sound a lot like a friend of mine who grew up in Hawaii: at the very least I can imagine both of you saying "kit - ten."

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 24 October 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

who will be the first to step up and second the fact that i sound like a sexy bitch?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

i sound like bela lugosi

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 24 October 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I just went to a new dentist who insisted, after seeing my head X-rays, that I sing for him. Apparently I have inhumanly cavernous sinuses.

I don't seem to take advantage of them, though: my voice is nothing too special. There's an indie twang that I suppress.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 24 October 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i sound like bela lugosi

That would be awesome! This is one of those ultimate "am I not goth?" statements to make, but I don't care. I lurve Bela Lugosi.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 24 October 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I've just been enjoying some of Graham's karaoke bits, though I got a 404 on the Bohemian Rhapsody. Anyway, I should clarify that the Martin on show is not me - before my time, I think. He is much better than me, as is everyone else. Dan is fantastic, unsurprisingly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 October 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's me.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 24 October 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

So what DO I sound like Ally? (I actually get Woody Allen and "funny foriegn british accent" lots.)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I always imagined I sounded like an australian Gordon Gano

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah sure, use away.

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 25 October 2002 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Arthur sounds vaguely homicidal, like the type of person who would blast someone out of an aairlock and then claim self-defense.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 October 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

PJM: yes, I pay a man (a police mechanic) to speak onto tapes for me.

Great tragedy of my life (and one thing which doesn't fail to make me miserable) = being told like my singing voice sounds like that dolt out of the Psychedelic Furs.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 25 October 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

idunno somebody tell me.

I thought this was amusing. The first thing Ned heard of me was my answering machine message, in which i say, in a ridiculous don't-give-a-fuck manner, "Hi this is Keith's phone, yada yada yada leave a message." Then you can hear a friend of mine saying "that was shit!" but he gets cut off.

The first thing I heard of Ned was his very deadpan message "Gee Keith that was deep."

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Friday, 25 October 2002 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

The muse was working overtime for me, Keith. ;-)

being told like my singing voice sounds like that dolt out of the
Psychedelic Furs

Then I'll take your singing voice, I love Richard Butler's rasp.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Who else can I misrepresent?

Archel has a voice which is quiet and polite, yes, but when she shakes off the slight wariness that always seems to be there at the start of a conversation, she has an understatedly sexy voice that occasionally savours vowel sounds, and sends young men a-quiver. Sweet but with prurient depths, maybe.

I wish I could discuss Peter Miller's voice, but I've never had the pleasure. However, I do have an A4 colour photocopy of him on my kitchen pinboard.

Toraneko, I listened to your voice, and thought it sounded nice.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

The lisp was bad last night. I was having the darnedest time saying "Dr. Octagonecologysy."

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 25 October 2002 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The typing is bad this afternoon. I am having the darnedest time typing "Dr. Octagonecologyst."

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 25 October 2002 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Toraneko's voice sounds lovely and musical. Momus's is even and unrushed and calm.

my speaking voice sounds very low in my head, but when i speak on the phone (i just noticed this this year) i automatically switch to sounding higher and more childlike. my singing voice is either sort of mid-range (i usually sing alto) but my range is small, and it sounds thin but not as bad as it used to be.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

What a bummer being in Ghandis will eh?

― gazza, Friday, 25 October 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

like neil hamburger, apparently. yeah i was pretty shocked.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 25 October 2002 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

(to hear that someone thought that, i mean) (dude heard neil hamburger on the radio, thought it was me)

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 25 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

So what DO I sound like Ally? (I actually get Woody Allen and "funny foriegn british accent" lots.)

By people who've actually heard either of these things?! That's alarming.

I don't know what you sound like, other than hyperactive and extremely grating, your voice makes me think of Weezer for some reason. Not cos you sound like Rivers Cuomo. It just makes me think of Weezer. Maybe I can see the Woody Allen thing because he also has that hyperactive thing going on but the accents are completely dissimilar.

DAN WHERE IS MY VOCAL DESCRIPTION?

― Ally, Friday, 25 October 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm unsatisfied with Felicity's description of my voice, and would like a second opinion.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 26 October 2002 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

You sound like a Chicago indie boy, Nitsuh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 October 2002 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

You all sound like Barry White.

― Ally, Saturday, 26 October 2002 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

1. jess sounds like a sexy bitch.
2. barry white is not a sexy bitch.
3. nor does he sound like one.
4. therefore jess does not sound like barry white.

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 26 October 2002 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe he sounds like Isaac Hayes?

― Ally, Saturday, 26 October 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

well, jess?

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 26 October 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Bastard is avoiding the question.

I sound like Barry White.

― Ally, Saturday, 26 October 2002 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

It really depends on my mood. West country drawl with some odd scouse inflections most of the time. Occasionally quite posh when I'm on the phone. A flat, hard an clipped Norf Lundun when I'm annoyed.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 27 October 2002 01:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan Perry pinned me down SO perfectly. Oh, beautiful.

But I know I DID do the Monster Truck Announcer Voice when I was in Boston, and in or near your presence, either outside the mall or outside the faux L.A. restaurant with the inept waiter. I even think Ned (or Chris) chimed in.

However, I do not believe I graced anyone with the Morrissey impression, the Stephin Merritt impression, or the Neil Young impression that weekend.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 31 October 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i do the same thing as maria: on the phone it is often assumed i am a lady

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 31 October 2002 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)

SICK SICK SICK! You are all sickos for joking about Barry White considering his voice is little more than a death rattle at the moment.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 31 October 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

You sound like a Chicago indie boy, Nitsuh.

Ned, next time I see you I am going to kick you in the nuts: I do not. I need either Felicity or Nory to come in and give comparative testimony between my old roommate's Chicago-indie voice and my NOT THAT AT ALL voice.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 31 October 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I kid, man, heavens! But you were the one who said you dress like such a person, I remember that much. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 October 2002 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

(Don't kid about that, Ned. But yes, for purposes of my first NYC meet last winter, I decided I needed to represent for the Chi-town indie kids: this is the only reason I was wearing the western shirt and the flared cords in combination.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 31 October 2002 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, yeah, we believe you.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 31 October 2002 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

The Asian lisp came back tonight. I was trying to say something about college football and stumbled over "flea-flicker."

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 14 November 2002 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...
Gareth said my voice was very *soothing*. I think he meant that I was putting him to sleep...

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 05:37 (twenty-three years ago)

:(

haha, no mary, you sound so calm, its that hint of drawl too;)

and...daaaaalston

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Very slow, very deep, very slurred. I allegedly sound as if I am always drunk - people at uni used to have difficulty judging my sobriety. I don't open my mouth properly to speak, although when i do I'm dead good at it - awards for public speaking as a teenager! I have a ridiculously high-pitched squealy-lose-control laugh though.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Very fast, apparently very London/estuary, slur a fair bit and fundamentally my voice has been said to be incomprehensible to a lot of people. I believe it is deeper than I think as well. I can do loud and public speaking quite well though and have no Ph34r. My singing voice, as one can attest above, has a limited range but what it lacks in pitch and technique it makes up for in gusto.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Will some American in this bitch please convince Gareth that my voice contains no hint of drawl, please?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha you do have a little bit of a drawl mary!!

:(

it's cute tho

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary, has no "hint of" drawl. The drawl is too obvious to be a hint.*

*this is a lie. Mary has the same non-accent as nabisco.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a heavy bahstan accent. actually its a wista accent, which is even worse. You've seen "Good Will Hunting"? Thats me.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

hah - everyone who heard resonance fm last night now knows what i sound like!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"You don't have an accent"
"Are you from the East Coast?"

"You're so soft-spoken"
"Sorry, I think I'm having hearing problems"
"You're mumbling again"
"huh?"

"You have a nice voice"
"I love your voice"
"There's something about your voice that always calms me down"
*loud snoring over the phone*

My voice is deep, but if I'm off the allergy medicine it gets gravelly.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

hah - everyone who heard resonance fm last night now knows what i sound like!

Namely, Scots and suave. Yow!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...
Hey Dyson! Who was the CitiTV guy that you said I sound like?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It wasn't Mark Dailey, was it?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/page.wav

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

*putting on shameless self-promotion hat*

You can hear my voice here: http://www.mp3.com/green_theory

*removing shameless self-promotion hat, replacing smart-ass stoner hat*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a really dopey-sounding West Midlands drawl. Imagine, say, a younger Roberta Taylor (The Bill) with that kind of really naff accent.

No wavs. I try to talk posh on wavs anyway. (It doesn't exactly work, tho'.)

― ChristineSH, Thursday, 6 March 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...
Jon Williams has a beautiful voice.

― man, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I WANT TO PUT JBR'S VOICE ON MY IPOD!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

My speaking voice has gotten a little deeper & scratchier lately (thanks alkymahol & smoking!). I've still got a slight Kentucky twang/drawl, but not something particularly too dinstinct.

My singing voice has gotten clearer and more hearty (thanks breathing exercises & yoga!), and I've recently managed to gain access to another 1/2-octave of low end that I couldn't have reached until now...ie now I can now sing the "I wanna know" part in the chorus of Funkadelic's "Can You Get to That".

My laughter fluctuates from impish giggle to stoner chuckle and is inflected with the occasional geek-snort-laugh beyond my control.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I am still waiting for the "Dan Perry Treatment". These days, I sound like Keith Richards looks.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I am very polite and soft spoken. I worry that my voice is perhaps higher than it should be.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I get to inflict my voice on Jess soon. Heh heh heh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

JESS RUN!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The Asian lisp came back tonight. I was trying to say something about college football and stumbled over "flea-flicker."

Speaking of Asians commenting on sports, there are a number of Asian sportscasters who, despite sounding like any other talking head on the local news, still always say, "the 29 year-ode..."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a pretty generic American accent, I think. People here (in Wisconsin) have told me there are a few words I pronounce strangely: "Mom," "bagel," "Wisconsin," and "Scotland" to name a few. Maybe it's because I don't do the nasal "Wiscahnsin" thing. I've also been told I sound Canadian. And that I sound like Audrey Hepburn. (The person who said this also claims that I LOOK like Audrey Hepburn, so I don't think his opinion can be trusted.) I always think my Rs sound kind of awkward, somehow. When I sing, I sound like a jerk.

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Those who really want to know what I sound like can click here for a recent radio piece I did or here for an older song.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The Americanisms that punctuate many of my posts are not a feature of my everyday speech.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

even as a child, i was told i had a low (in pitch, not in level) voice for my age. to some, i've still got a kind of lowish speaking voice, but it depends on the situation. in normal conversation, probably. on the phone, i definitely have got this very crisp, practised 'phone voice' which usually bumps the pitch up slightly higher than usual, with notes of soothing and calming in it that stem from all the time i spent doing customer service and trying to placate people. if i read in Spanish or Japanese, my voice becomes higher-pitched and more hesitant---i've been told i sound like a child when doing such readings. as to any sort of accent, i've had many people be surprised to learn i'm from Chicago after having heard me speak; they never tell me where they think i'm from, however.

singing, i've actually got quite a bit of range. am most comfortable in a lower, more altoesque area, although i can get quite high, too---just can't get as much power behind it. i like being able to disembowel people with the power of my diaphragm. samples mostly involving singing (but with some speaking; the female bits are me) can be found here, here, and also here.

fwee.

― janni (janni), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Nice, Sean C!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

"AND as they say...out of sight, out of mind".

I still believe in the tablet PC.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Nice, Sean C!
Which one? The radio show file was still when I was a bit rusty. The song is just sappy, I think.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely terrible when I hear my voice recorded. I know, I know, it's because the voice in my head is affected by the acoustics of bone and so on, but even so, my gosh, I sound so much better in my head. People should live in my head, I'd be far more impressive.

The non-speaking voice in my head, though, like when I'm thinking to myself "Mmmm, sandwiches," still has a speech impediment I haven't had since I was 7 or 8.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm that way, too - when I hear my voice recorded, it reminds me of Cousin Oliver. I sound so much better in my head.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounding like Cousin Oliver means you could be in Kidd Video, though. That's pretty wicked.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Well hell, time for a change of career!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Your parachute is now "kicking Master Blaster's ass" colored.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

People tell me at least 2wice a week that I laugh like Eddie Murphy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I sound like a white guy

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

jody beth rosen sounds like a computer, too!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 22:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I sound like a Muppet.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Mostly low, occasionally disturbingly high-pitched 'City' Australian accent, tempered with a trace of scouse from my mum's side and a weird yankee edge, possibly due to the girlfriend.

Students are always asking me where the hell am I from. The irony is that I was born in perhaps the premiere white-trash town in Victoria, Moe. You Melbourne kids will know all about that.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally's voice is an odd mix of NYC sophistication and pissed-off townie. It's kind of like a lower-pitched version of Miranda off of "Sex In The City".

(Keep in mind that I don't think I've heard Ally's voice in something like two years.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

FUCK. Why did something so simple take so long for me to catch onto? You know you can never tell what someone is really like from the internet, whether they are a freak and suchlike? Well photos kind of help but not really. To hear them speak is such a suitable test. This thread is too long to check out but has anyone just posted a file of themselves, say, reading out their last post to ILE? That would be so illuminating. Come on kids, with technology and everything!

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

we should have a standard block of text that we can all read.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm getting more scouse by the day (it comes from taking the piss out of the accent all the time)

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I am picking up a variation of the Boston accent. SHOOT ME NOW.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i sound how i type. i often mispronounce words (sometimes on purpose, sometimes unintentionally) and stumble over certain syllable clusters. I can get quite loud and posh or quiet and estuary.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

non-accent although my bittersweet drawl can be coaxed out with the finest (or worst) of booze, extended conversation with the family (or folx from that particular region), or near-exhaustion. sometimes all three.

i think we discussed this on one of the baseball threads.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

My mom thinks I sound like Sandra Bernhardt. I don't, mind you.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

!!!

You don't really, but that would explain the rougher edge I remember in your vocal cadence.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 May 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

No, that's the fact that I'm white trash, Dan!

I was totally mesmerized by Sean's radio thing, but I have no idea what he was talking about.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Crudders sounds almost exactly like the friend he reminded me of when I first met him. That's eerie. I wonder if Crudders is my friend's Secret Canadian Twin.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 02:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Tep, I am your friend. Look into your heart, you know it to be true.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 02:51 (twenty-three years ago)

You're my CANADIAN friend. Well, my other Canadian friend. Otherwise, I'm kicking your ass, cause you totally lost my copy of Nightbreed, fucker.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

This really isn't doing anything to disprove the theory that Sean is actually a legion of people, is it?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Crudders would have to secretly live in New York, too. Oh wait, or he could be -- as the other friend -- lying to me about that. IT'S ALL TWISTY.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He also does not have the accent I expected, which is further suspicious.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, he lives in my house, yo. We're conspiring against you.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Goddamn Yankees.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

What accent were you expecting, eh? And whatcha gonna do abooot it?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I was expecting you to sound like Our Mutual Friend S! She has that ... accent you don't have ... thing ... going on. Especially in the cadence.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, she's from near Detroit, so she's got that slight twang that many people from that area have. I'm from the prairies, which is far closer to North American standard, no real inflection. So there's that then.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly! You have that "I'd never be able to identify where you're from, only where you're not from" accent. But hers is the Canadian voice I have heard the most, so in my head, she speaks for all Canadians.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Mikey: you're from Moe? Ayy :P (I can't talk, I'm from Queanbeyan, which is probably as bad...heh)

My accent is very Australian, and gets broader and more nasal the drunker/stondeder I get, to the point where I sound like an arse if I'm really trashed. People have made merry at my ockerism before, but I can't help it, my Dad's from Dubbo, so I think I picked up on his bushman's twang.

Since living in Melbourne I've gotten a Victorian accent tho. "What Victorian accent?" I hear you Melburnians ask? Well to a NSW ear, y'all say "Mahlbun" whereras Sydneysiders say "Mell-burn". Words with a similar "e" sound have this inflection too. I now have it, as my Canberra-based parents keep on reminding me of, har har.

Nalini sounds like a lifelong Londoner which is amusing seeing as she only lived there 2 years :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh, the strange thing is that I think that particular accent is one of the least Canadian ones I know. I always find it really charming when she speaks, especially when she claims not to have an "ayeccent". But I don't know too many other people who talk like that.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Her "but I don't have an accent!" is even more pronounced, for some reason, when she's bitching than none of us locals pronounce New Orleans street names correctly :) It really drove her up the wall.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

(This is the thread where Crudders and I talk about the speaking habits of someone none of you know)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

STFU and listen to me try not to laugh hysterically (plus have a cold) instead.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 04:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Trayce - Yeah, my parents were posted to the hospital there, fresh out of Uni. We moved before I could start school there, and I think that was the point.

I'm with you on the stoned thing. Drunk, I start to sound more and more like a fop.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 22 May 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth said I have a good voice for radio. I think he meant I have a good face for radio.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's see. The only Minnesotan word I really ever used was 'billfold' (it means wallet) but I don't any more unless I'm talking to my mom.

After more than a decade of living in London I do say a lot of words with a soft southern English 'a' but in the main it's a very clear unaccented American voice with British English usage (what bookish American girls sound like in British B/W films or thereabouts). My mother accuses me of enunciating too much (which makes me laugh when she says so in mushy Minnesota accent). I've been told about/asked to do voiceovers every so often.

Ed sounds like C3PO crossed with Peter O'Toole (especially if he injures himself and feels the need to shout profanity). Nick sounds EXACTLY like Rex Harrison in Blithe Spirit, especially if he's in a snit with someone, except for he says three words like a Scot: 'bouks' (books), 'muhn' (moon) and 'eye-ron' (iron).

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Me? I'm just a punchable posh boy.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 22 May 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

You're not that posh...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey there Perry, no picking on the Boston accent! Mine is worse, its a worcester accent....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 22 May 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, I think. I have a feeling I am genuinely getting less posh, but seeing my best mate (the tory) always pushes me back up to "what ho, jolly rotten swizz, what?" levels. As does singing Eminem songs.

Ally, that's neat!

Tim, you have a good dick for radio.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 22 May 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

RJG sounds grown-up.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally sounds exactly the way I expected Ally to sound.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What is that supposed to mean?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally you sound just like that lady from England

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Dame Edna?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, you need to feeeeeeel the wazzup. That is what the Tesh would do. He would pray to Jesus and then he would holler a mighty bellow: WAZZUP!

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

No no, J. Lo

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

PF OTM to a degree.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I do not "feel" the phrase WAZZUP. I'm sorry. I was also like in tears from trying to read one of his Jesus-loves-you ones aloud. This is a problem.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

We can't all be John Tesh.

And this is a good thing.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

What is that supposed to mean?

Exactly what it said! You sound like I thought you sounded like. Your voice fits your typing. It's not a bad thing. It isn't code for "you have cooties."

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Tep, are you trying to say that Ally has cooties? Be honest now.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I'm not saying she doesn't have cooties.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

If by "cooties" you mean "mad fundage yo" then you're totally right.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you not not saying Ally doesn't not have no cooties?

I think Ally has a pleasing American accent and a cute cold.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, this goes against everything I learned in grade school, but...will you please give me cooties?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

DIRRTY! Damn, yo. I only give cooties after marriage.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

(oh and thank you Mark!)

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

eew.

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Cooties as dowry: C/D?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

STFU, like I have any other dowry.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Dowry on Credit.

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I don't got that either.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you not not saying Ally doesn't not have no cooties?

I am neutral on the cootie issue!

But if she has cooties, they're probably exactly as I imagine them to be.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel so naked right now.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

... exactly as I imagined, etc., cackle and so on.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.grrl.com/cootie2.jpg

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Will I un-kill the thread if I promise I wasn't actually imagining a naked Ally?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

We don't believe you, perv!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Speak for yrself, buttercup. Bros before hoes and all...

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Right, the hot dog date is OFF.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

: (

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

You called me a ho!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

It was a love 'ho'

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, that's cool then. Ok, back on, but you gotta pay for my freaky doesn't-go-with-hot-dogs papaya drink to make up for it.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Boo, you know ah luv you...

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Prove it with papaya!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Just don't front on me Boo

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.spidersreach.com/collectible/ww/wacky_lg/gsfc3117.gif

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ipacific.com/samoa/images/papaya.jpg

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Awww. You da best! Man, now I'm wanting a nonsensical papaya drink.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

We don't believe you, perv!

You are just an imaginary computer people to me, you possess no nakedness!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Please purchase my Papayas. I also peddle paprika."

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a replicant.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"I know kung fu."

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar99/best/images/img14.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~schuckis/science-fiction/harrison_profile.gif

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/image3/unicorn.png

(Can I just say young Harrison Ford=rowr?)

(Can I also say we shouldn't hijack this thread? I'm going to say that everyone here has lovely voices, but the most distinctive voice IN THE UNIVERSE is Ned Raggett's)

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no way of making wav. files here - don't make me call y'all.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no microphone. Assume I sound like Bob Newhart.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Better than Larry or Darryl. Or Darryl for that matter.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought I had no way of doing it myself but then I figured out that the thing on top of my computer was a microphone.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Better than Larry or Darryl. Or Darryl for that matter.

Especially since Ally's a replicant.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The thing on top of MY computer is a cat. I'm not even gonna attempt it.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, you sound exactly like I thought you would, too. (and that's not s'posed to mean anything) (you have a lovely voice)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

She does, too - at least she doesn't sound like Cousin Oliver.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

SEE? Oopsbuttch has my back.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

You're all liars. I'm gon' call all of you. And threaten you with the Tesh.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

who the hell is Cousin Oliver? (luna, you have a lovely voice, too)(Ally's voice vs Luna's voice: FITE!)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally said,

(Can I also say we shouldn't hijack this thread? I'm going to say that everyone here has lovely voices, but the most distinctive voice IN THE UNIVERSE is Ned Raggett's)

yes. it's quite a bit like Sean Young's turn as Catwoman, isn't it? ;)

― janni (janni), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

"Being threatened with the Tesh" sounds like something you pay double for on Bourbon Street.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 22 May 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Cousin Oliver - the little John Denver lookin' kid from the Brady Bunch

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

ah. You SO don't sound anything like him.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

When I hear my own voice, I think I do.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

WELL I'M TELLING YOU THAT YOU DON'T!!! (althought i barely remember what it sounds like)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Whateverrrrrrr *making W sign*

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

fine, continue your self-abuse.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'all are just leaving them wiiiiide open today.

Anyway, no time for self-abuse at work, that has to wait until I get home.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

That's self-abuse??
Maybe you shouldn't use that 18-inch dildo

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

how about those giants?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Uhhh... yeaaaaaaaaah

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I was really tempted to contribute audio here, but, well, un-fortunately, I have absolutely nothing to say. Which is just as well. That sinusey drone... the Accent From Hell... ugh.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god no. You're missing out on yr calling as a phone sex operator.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm so glad I have no idea what I sound like and that nobody here will be able to tell me anytime soon.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

or at least a traffic reporter

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris Barrus has a very flat speaking tone; most of his speech lies in a very buzzy range and is fairly monotone. He also has a very measured cadence where most words get fairly equal stress.

Assume I sound like Christopher Walken.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Christine, your "sinusey drone accent from hell" is quite lovely.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

and it's not sinusey at all

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

You sound a little welsh.

My voice, when I hear it unexpectedly, tends to bring forth classwar reflexes in me.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

A sibilant, whispery high contralto mumble. Somehow, I've also picked up an accent that's eerily similar to a Brooklyn accent, even though I've never even been to New York State, much less New York. I also have a nasty stutter that's stayed with me through thirty years of speech therapy.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I have missed the thread revival of god. But that is what vacation time off is for.

Seattle people will soon know my tones! Oodles of people at the megaFAP will fear! HAHAHAHA! Erm, anyway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

This seemed a great idea last night.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Welsh? Me? If it wasn't late (mom's in bed next door and probably already doubts my sanity quite enough), I'd do you a Ruth Madoc wav. It's one of the few impressions I can almost do. (Er, hold on, am I supposed to be proud of that?!)

BTW, I was talking very quiet. I only have a nasty, minuscule mike which pick ups nothing more than two inches away, then suddenly you sound like you're slobbering when in range of its pickup. So I need a new mike. But the webcam comes first.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

N. you are so soft spoken!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe I am. But I didn't want to think my flatmate to think I'd gone insane, either.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

You have a great voice! I like the way you say 'ILE'.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah Christine, i think you sound kinda welsh as well.

Ally you sound younger than i thought you would, or maybe it's the cold? something about your voice sorta reminds me of what my voice sounds like in my head (but not on tape)

N., you sound really similar to one of my cousins!

― sand.y, Friday, 23 May 2003 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

n. doesnt sound as refined as i'd imagined

― minna (minna), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I often slum it up. I'll record myself being more refined tomorrow.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone on ILX thinks I am 47!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

You sounded exactly as I expected.

JBR sounded like a lunatic.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:13 (twenty-three years ago)

My voice is rather deep and unsteady.. I sound very oafish when amused.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 23 May 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I am imagining everyone but Sean C, myself, and Ned as having N.'s voice now, totally inadvertantly.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I would love it if everyone woke up one day to find they inadvertently had my voice.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I would love it if everyone woke up one day to find they inadvertently had my baby.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I already did, Dan!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

*sniff* My first baby momma... I, I don't know wat to say... *tear runs down cheek* *facial cheek you perv* *"facial" heh*

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I named it Pikachu.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Pikachu Perry.

OH MY GOD JOEI, MY FIRST-BORN SON AND EVERYONE IN OUR EXTENDED FAMILY ARE TOTALLY GOING TO HATE YOU.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Should I sell it to the gypsies then?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)

NOOOO! Not little Pikachu!

At least wait until his first swear! Aw, precious little devil...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm imagining N. saying this, FYI.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i like "whether they're a freak and suchlike" :)

― ron (ron), Friday, 23 May 2003 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

...

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Friday, 23 May 2003 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

*loops N. saying "fuck" and masturbates furiosly*

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 23 May 2003 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Frühlingsmute, what's that weird tongue clacking sound going on in the background?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess it's the internal iMac microphone recording hard disc sounds.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Friday, 23 May 2003 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)

you know how the doods sound in good will hunting? Thats me. Really bad Bahstan accent.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 23 May 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Anybody curious what I sound like can go to www.lion-radio.com and check out my radio show NOW (it's wednesdays 11am-1pm EST). Yesterday I got the ol' pipes compared to that dude from Jesus & Mary Chain. But I was really tired.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha Anthony you sound so bored!
I don't think my webspace will let me host sound files. :( I tried and it just doesn't seem to work.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

p.s. Liverpool.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

you're listening! Cooool! I got confused cuz their listed in the Joy Division bio as playing at the same club and JD is from Manchester sooooo...

I'm actually gonna play Momus next. ILX Fever!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

It's cool, I do that shit on the air ALL THE TIME.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Too bad my sound card is fuX0red, or I would have something new to make fun of.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, Teeny, you DJ as well? I must have missed that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you being a smartass? I think I talk about my job way too much.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

also YAY KRISTIN HERSH

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish Dan Perry would do more of his vocal descriptions, those were interesting.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

on-air props for teeny!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Those descriptions were indeed great! And Teeny, no I'm not -- knowing me I've plum forgotten whatever you said your job was. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, just as well. I run a radio station + b/f is a lawyer = #1 POWER COUPLE OF SCORN.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Astounding! But so long as yer not a ClearChannel drone...er, are you?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

she's the ClearChannel Queen Bee!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

nope! Although I do know people who work for them and they say really good things about them. I'm sure that doesn't help anyone else, though. :)

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Really good things! This can't be true. Unless they mean that they're good employers in the benefits-supervision sense, which is all right, as opposed saying they're a force of good in the world, which I doubt. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that's probably about right. Also you may not believe this but they in no way get their playlists dictated to them by anyone in corporate. (that is, they still have a playlist which is all premade and that the DJs more or less stick to, but it's made locally and they don't have some VP from the coast telling them to play some song or another.)

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i have no way of recording my voice on my pc. so your all out of luck. unless you call me or meet me. and thats not happening.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I could...but I won't. I really really really dislike my voice.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

that is, they still have a playlist which is all premade and that the DJs more or less stick to

See, regardless of whether this is local or national or whatever, I consider this an unforgiveable sin.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

People find Boston accents annoying anyways. Much less a worcester/boston accent. My wife says I have a really bad one, but I never think I do. Oh well.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I could...but I won't. I really really really dislike my voice.

Come on now, don't be shy. Can't be any worse than my lispy thicko drawl.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

It is! Ask Ned, Donut Bitch, Chris Barrus etc...

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Er? Since when have any of us complained about your voice?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread is great! I've really enjoyed listening to the sound clips of people. Is there any place that has free audio clip hosting, the same way you can sign up for free image hosting on the web? Can anyone recommend how/where to do this?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Geocities seems to work.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Nobody has complained per se, but it sounds horrid.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay - I don't know whether this will work or not. Probably not, but here goes anyway......

http://www.geocities.com/cj_the_unruly/voice.wav

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I sound like a valley girl. People have said I sound like the American Pie band girl due to all my enthusiastic "this one time" stories.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Like, y'know, whatever, Carey.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

anyway...

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

If I had a radio station, it would have a playlist. It would have at least 100,000 tracks on it and be optional, but I'd firmly encourage the DJs I employed to use it. I might make it compulsory that 50% of tracks came from it, except maybe for some types of specialist show.

Anyone here on web radio between 9 and 5 UK time? (That's 4am to noon EST, I believe.) I could listen to you at work.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

It is! Ask Ned, Donut Bitch, Chris Barrus etc...

Nicole, your voice is fine!

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i sound like a bogan slapper who had elocution lessons.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

First Nicole and now you! Yer voices both rock, there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

oh thanks, its okay though, i'm comfortable with it.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I would say luna sounds cuter than she looks, but that sounds bad.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

so i definitely won't say it

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I sound like a muppet on speed.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

quiet you

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh bite me.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:45 (twenty-three years ago)

*bite*

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"O Meri Jaan Mein Ne Kaha" or whatever to thread...

There are people on ILX who work at ClearChannel, people.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I was finally able to listen to some of these last night (on a computer that's actually halfway decent): nobody ever sounds like what I expect them to sound like. Not at all.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...
Luna has a lovely voice!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

does anyone in ny actually listen to wbai 99.5 fm? im supposed to do an interview on some show next week

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Moving to Indiana has brought some of my twang on.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Heavens, the impression is everywhere! ;-)

My god, is this how it all started?

― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

No, you'd have to go back to a.m.a for that, Ned.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"My cavity's a ginger cat", wtf?

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

everyone sounds lovely

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

my webspace somehow will not cooperate with mpgs. :(

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I sound like an angry mummy, thanks to this cold and sore throat. Or perhaps even a zombie.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I still sound like a pissed off townie.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna hook a microphone up to the inside of my head, cause I sound wicked better there than on cassette recorders and that kind of thing, which makes me suspect my voice-as-it's-heard-to-other-folks is fairly crap.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

No, you'd have to go back to a.m.a for that, Ned.

You might be right at that. I don't have the fortitude right now.

― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone please tell me if this sound sample is too inaudible to be an effective sound sample. Thanks.

p.s.: My Anglophilic self is in love with CJ's speaking voice! OMG, girl, you sound lovely. I would pay to hear you recite the telephone directory, that's for sure.

― Jane Datsun (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 21 August 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got a thick Canadian thing going on.

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 21 August 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a shitty file Dee, but, um, you seriously sound really sexy.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 21 August 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't a clue as to how I sound. 2 people here have heard my voice, but it's been like 8 years since one of them has. I'm kinda curious what luna has to say about it, but I think it's very non-descript and hard to pin down.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 21 August 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a tenor and have a slight Georgia accent

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 21 August 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i would describe my voice as soporific

― duane, Thursday, 21 August 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

in fact soporTASTIC

― duane, Thursday, 21 August 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

if anyone's gonna be in the east village/lower east side of NYC on wednesdays between 4 and 6, i got a radio show. i think the first show is next week. you can hear me mumble, stutter, and sound really nervous and shit. tune in. 89.7

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 August 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It's recently been pointed out to me that 99% of my sentences are punctuated with laughter. This is truth.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Drugged up hippy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey! CJ! You're posh too! Let's join forces and form a posse! A poshe, if you will. Tom Ewing might be able to join if he stops saying hurtful things to me.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Poshe!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Irony: sticking a few of these into my Winamp queue, then going back to what I was listening to before IE The Mountain Goats.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I sound like the parents in the Peanuts cartoons - "Mwah mwah mwah mwah mwah!"

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

true dat.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

NA - I kiss you! *MWAH*

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, I misread that, I thought it was someone else! (runs away)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a shitty file Dee, but, um, you seriously sound really sexy.

(a.)  Oh, that's Gateway for you. I had to use my mom's computer to record the sound file, because my computer decided it wasn't having any sound recording nonsense four years ago. (Next computer I'm getting will actually be a GOOD one.)

(b.)  Um, um, um... *blushes heavily for ages* Thankyousomuchthough.

(c.)  Want to show off YOUR voice, hm?

― Jane Datsun (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 21 August 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Some comments on the other voice samples linked to:

JBR, your voice rocks. I do sense a bit of the Bebe Neuwirth in it, which is great because that means you can TOTALLY be the Velma Kelly in the ILX production of Chicago.

toraneko, your voice sounds pleasant and lilting. Are you generally a nice person IRL? Because your voice makes it seem as though you would be good to others.

Ally, when I kept on hearing you describe your voice as "very young" and "annoying", what I heard isn't what I had in mind. It totally sounds sophisticated and worldly. To me anyway.

Nick D., your girlfriends must be very lucky to hear sweet nothings with THAT voice. I felt myself turning many shades of red listening to that voice. It is seriously addictive listening to you.

Wintermute, you sound German! ;) No, really, you sound pleasant and nice and everything, even though I couldn't understand a word you said. Yo hablo español y ingles, por supuesto.

Oh yes, and I totally still want to pay to hear CJ reciting the telephone directory.

― Jane Datsun (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 21 August 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick D., your girlfriends must be very lucky to hear sweet nothings with THAT voice. I felt myself turning many shades of red listening to that voice. It is seriously addictive listening to you.

Praise for N.! Larcole will never be able to accept it! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 August 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm... This took forever, so I hope SOMEbody can make it work.
http://www.geocities.com/x77tigersxus/sarah.wav.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 22 August 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It's got a big screeching SHHHHHHHHHHH in the middle, but the rest sounds OK. I had to Copy Shortcut and paste it in my browser address window rather than click on it. Your voice reminds me of that girl's voice in the song by a band I think was called the Skeletons, the song was "I'm Sorry" that just recited a lot of stuff one roommate did to her other roommate.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 22 August 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

DamnityDamn Damn! See, it took forEVER to load onto my geocities and I had to try a few times... I guess I'll try again. I mean, this is important stuff, right?

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah its got a big ssssssssshhhhhhhhh in it. But otherwise, you sound like the girl in the middle of the Drop Nineteens song "Kick The Tragedy". Which is a good thing by the way.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah has the best voice btw!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried loading it again. My home computer is such a dumbass.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, arent you around a little early?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep. I'm still at home.

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried to listen to it again to see if I fixed it on this new upload, but I forgot that geocities can only handle so many downloads an hour or something. Humph!

OH, well.

Yeah, I turned on the computer this morning to play NA the PBJ song and let him listen to some ILXors voices I downloaded last night. I don't have a sound card on my computer at work, or at least I don't have speakers there.

TIme to drive to work BTW! Be back soon.

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My voice is odd. I think have a fairly neutral middle class English accent with some extra hard vowels, that occasionally goes for walks around the UK. The frequency and destination of these perambulations is dependent on a) how pissed I am and b) who I'm talking to. Gareth, Sarah and Dave B can testify how Yorkshire I went towards the end of the Waterloo FAP last week.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Here I am.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for the Drop Nineteens comparison, Chris. You inspired me to listen to the National Coma cd on the way to work that I've been borrowing from my bass player for several months now.

I'll have to check out your sound bit back at home. I always sort of imagine posters speaking their lines, so I'm very curious to see if yours matches up to my imagination.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 22 August 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? I always imagine them delivering them in song.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, that too, N. I liked your voice BTW! It is much more interesting than anything I hear in my own life.

― Sarah Mclusky (coco), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, come to a London FAP and here several posh Englanders banging on about all kinds of rubbish :)

(You are of course intending to come here, right? Right?)

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Interesting" is one of the best words in the English language.

― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course! I mean, eventually... Now that I'm going back to school, I'm gonna be really poor for a while. Plus, I want to buy a house with NA sometime kind of soon. But yes, some day I will come over and you guys will totally drink us under the table. I promise.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 22 August 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I sound like Peter Stampfel. Strangling Tom Verlaine. With a Muppet.

― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...
hey, listen to my radio show. 4pm-6pm EST on wednesdays [yo, thats like in 45 minutes]. on 88.1 if youre in downtown new york or www.eastvillageradio.com and click on the steaming button! im gonna play indiepop, electro, and r.kelly. yay.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I think I can do this one, too; I have "attach a voice thingie doo" on my phone email thing. I have no soundcard, so I won't actually be able to hear it.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm running out of ways to procrastinate writing this paper! (.wav file, my audio software is all uninstalled cause of the dead soundcard)

I can't actually test it, so if it's like a dying gerbil, or you know, some kind of electric chicken, something odd happened.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh I've got your station Phil, they're playing new order now.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Tep--you say that as if it's a headline on NPR.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep has a lovely voice!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

bill sounds like he's in the red room.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

or phoning from it.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Tep--you say that as if it's a headline on NPR.

Next time round on Tep Talk, pineapple zombie blowjobs -- can you really make them from Dixie cups and jello?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil, I do not like the song you are playing right now.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

You DO sound like you're on NPR Tep! (FYI signal-to-noise v. bad)

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Not surprising, it's the cell phone and I'm indoors -- reception's better outside, but of course you'd get the wind and wild dogs and traffic and so on.

Wait, sounding like I'm on NPR isn't a good thing, I don't think... is that code for "slipping into a drug-induced coma"?

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

PHIL TURN DOWN YOUR MIC YOU ARE OVERMODULATED.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ALSO LOOK AT ME I'M A TREE WTF

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahahaha.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

oh hey! my webspace finally decided it could host soundfiles!

here

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

oh fuckityfuckfuck

work now please

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

listening online sounds great:
Yay Phil! Shoutouts to the ILX massive yo!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah phil your mic sounds much better now. and thanks for the human league, you know it's all we really want.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeny, you and I could have an "Airplane" style argument over airport intercomms!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

YES.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"No moh-ore lies!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeny could get a job as "the computer voice" on Star Trek!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil, I vote "Bump n Grind" over "Ignition".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

funny freelance voice work I have done:

*users' manual for some sort of doohickey for blind people (maybe it read text for you? it was ages ago)
*voice-over on a promotional film advertising THE MICROWAVE OF THE FUTURE! It was a whole suite of gadgets that included THE COFFEEMAKER OF THE FUTURE and THE ALARM CLOCK OF THE FUTURE and possibly THE CONVENTIONAL OVEN OF THE FUTURE. They all talked to each other; you could program them to start and stop at certain times, or you could wave a frozen dinner in front of a bar code scanner and the microwave would know exactly how to cook it. Theoretically you could get on the internet at work and turn on the coffeemachine for hot coffee by the time you got home, if you were the sort of person who enjoyed hot coffee at the end of your day.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

No swearing on the radio, phil!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah dude turn down those headphones.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill sounds like one of those built-in Mac computer voices. Read me a story.

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i should like to be described as stentorian, but i'm probably not

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Sexy.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

teeny has great diction.

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill sounds like one of those built-in Mac computer voices. Read me a story.

I'll read ten seconds of a story (that's how long it records) later on :)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

teeny has a fantastic voice.
i also quite like the idea of being described as patrician

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh hey, thanks for listening. It was the first show that was being streamed on the internet and only my third show - and also the first one where i actually used the mic... um, so, yeah, next week too, yay!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll try not to swear next time. or play songs that ally doesn't like. :(

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

This obliquely reminds me that my spoken word, uh, masterpiece will be due soon on Tape Mountain, so fear...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i plan to record all conversations with you when you are here Ned, the tapes will be released when we have both passed away and our descendants will become millionaires

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I sound like a goober reading Cozen the first ten seconds of a story.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(hey tep, fucking get on AIM already!)

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Rrr, I'm supposed to be finishing this paper. I'll be on in a short bit, I'm wrapping up the conclusion and tossing dinner at itself.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil, you can play as many songs as you want that I don't like--I only didn't like the first one, the rest were good! And maybe you didn't play the first one, I might've tuned in early and been confused.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It is beautiful, Stevem! Our descendants will thank us.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

This obliquely reminds me that my spoken word, uh, masterpiece will be due soon on Tape Mountain, so fear...

You mean "laugh", surely, Ned? Future MP3s of giggling elves will soon follow, no doubt....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

you will hear on the ilx comp (coming soon!!!)

Thinking of that, what the hell happened with the new ILX comp anyway? If tis finally done, who would I need to lapdance for, to get a copy;>?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

To actually answer this thread (yes, finally!), I've a slightly deep voice which can sound a bit nasal if I'm tired/or stressed. (But then, I've always thought I sounded goofy....)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, I don't know how many ILXOR'S here have heard me, but my voice veers wildly all over the place. When I'm happy or drunk, the scouser side of my background shines through in my speech, same when I'm annoyed or excited. When I'm at school, my voice drops and I adopt a 'matey' Aussie accent. When I'm sad, I croak.

― Mike Stuchbery, Friday, 19 September 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There is actually a shocking abesence of the Raggett Laugh™ on his album. But there is more than enough cookie-deprived goodness to make up for it.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 19 September 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

There is actually a shocking abesence of the Raggett Laugh™ on his album.

Stylistic flourish.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 September 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...
First, a disclaimer

Then, an instructive story.

After listening to the commentary on Futurama DVDs over the weekend, I am now hearing Dan posts as read by John DiMaggio, the voice of Bender. Not as read by Bender, now, but by the guy who does his voice (who is on the commentary).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 October 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...
I really wonder if the Asian lisp is genetic. Today's troublesome phrases:

"Frank Lloyd Wright"
"sole shareholder"

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

People tell me I sound like Lorenzo Music of garfield fame- hey I like that.

― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 6 November 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew! You've got a nice, lilting Irish sort of flavor to your voice! Tep! You sound lovely! Sarah! You sound friendly!

I want to have a regular conversation with all of ILX right this second now.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 6 November 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

LiveJournal lets paid users post by phone now, creating .ogg sound files in the process. This one doesn't make any sense, particularly, but I was tired and watching television (and also me). If the file doesn't work or whatever, it's because I haven't got a sound card, so can't check it.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...
Here's me solemnly reading Shel Silverstein and sounding totally retarded.
Lazy Jane

Done very quickly with iMovie.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got plenty more, but let's just start with this one.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww all the older wavs in this thread are gone! GONE!

Come on people, more voices! Teeny OMG you totally sound cool, you should announce trains at Flinders st Station or something =)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW Aaron your link seems broken or something?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

gah! wait, do you have quicktime? I tried to convert it to wav or mp3 but like half the file disappears when I do for some reason.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I do, and the quicktime player starts up but with a broken page kind of icon thing?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It says it cant find a file "voice 02".

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hrmf. works fine from here. Try again if you want...are you downloading the clip or just loading it into your browser? There's no video, it should just be a black screen with audio.
Maybe iMovie is screwing me over, that voice 02 thing sounds suspicious. I'll check it out.

I'll make another one in mp3 or wav later if no one can get that to work.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried both browser and standalone, it was the standalone that gave the missing file error. Weirdy!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

How do I record on this thing anyway? I HAVE NO IDEA!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

As I suspected, I had not properly compressed the file. Sorry!
Disregard the other link, I already deleted the faulty file.
This should totally work now (plus it's in mp3 format):

Aaron reads Shel Silverstein's Lazy Jane in his cigarette-cracked, eternally sleepy/depressed sounding voice

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

WOW SOUNDS LIKE I RECORDED THIS FROM THE INSIDE OF A SCARY COFFIN!!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow Mandee, you actually sound pretty much exactly how I imagined.
Someone please tell me mine actually works now...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(I can send anyone with a gmail account a recording of a Bach motet that features a quartet with me on bass and my wife on soprano...)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah that worked Aaron... I like your voice, its so laid back sounding =)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah wtf Mandee were you in an alien spaceship@!?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

(Be warned it is ginormous though.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

its so laid back sounding

"Laid back" is the most prevalent descriptive term for me - used by just about everyone who has ever met me. "You're so LAID BACK!"

Maybe I'm just lazylazylazylazylazylazy?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Either way, its a Good Thing, believe me!

Sorry I'll stop being such an old pervo now.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Old pervo"? Nah, we're about the same age aren't we?

No, I'm cool with that "laid back" assessment.

But you're from Australia, right? I guess that just goes to show that wherever I may go, there I am. People from CA tell me this, people from Aus. I guess I'm stuck with myself ;-)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I am Australian yeah. And I'm a sucker for slow drawly american accents ;)

I'd stick my voice up here, but I've no mic (I'm at work) and anyway, I sound really dorky and "strewth mate" ocker. I dont like my voice :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(Wow, did you know that it takes forever to upload a 13 meg fail via Gmail?)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

13mb? I thought gmail only accepted 10mb files. Now it'll probably bounce back to you, slllooowwwly! ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

OH FUCKING HELL

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

So okay, I guess I can't send this file to people who ask for it. Sorry.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post
I don't think anyone REALLY likes their own speaking voice, Trayce. See, when I recorded that sound file and played it back I thought "OMG everyone's gonna think I'm brain damaged!"
So go for it when you have mic access.
Oh and btw foreign accents of any kind sound totally rad to dumb americans like me.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Well Trayce I could only record on iMovie so I thought I'd add some goofy sound effects!

I've been told that the amount of exclamation points I use on the interweb misleads people into thinking I have a high-pitched voice. I guess people with squeaky voices are more excited than those with deep voices?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh Aaron I just listened to your recording, your voice is HOT!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy crap ladies I'm blushing

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And for the record Mandee, like I said I totally imagined you having that rich alto/sarcastic riot grrl type (I mean that in a good way!) voice from your pics. I never imagined a high squeaky type thing.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Mandee your vocal timbre is similar to mine, really alto voice. Thats the one thing I *do* like abt mine, that its really deep for a girls voice. When Ive had a few choofs, I get really drawly.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

And Mandee while you're listening to my voice (since I don't have a camera) I'll tell you that I look a bit like William Zabka with Philip Seymour Hoffman's gut. (yes I read that thread, but that's not too far off the mark).
Oh, but I have really long dirty-blonde hair.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I am Australian yeah. And I'm a sucker for slow drawly american accents ;)

Yeah, my fianceé from Sydney thinks so, too. I'm telling you Southern guys, you can almost get away with murder.

And Dan, it was nice enough for you to offer anyway.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Its the Harry Connnick Jr thing, PP!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I am NOT southern hehehehe.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I know that ;P You sound a bit Jake Gyllenhaal-ish actually.

OK I will stop fawning now hehe.

BTW are we the same age? I assumed you were younger, dunno why (I'm 33).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

NO FUCKING WAY!
Seriously Trayce from your pics I assumed you were 24 or thereabouts, like me.

I thought myself that clip makes me sound Donnie Darkoish, but I didn't want to project.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I figured you'd tink that - everyone does =)

Hell, I *feel* about 18. So s'all good!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Well whatever you must take pretty good care of yourself, you're a young 33.

I hope my pics can live up to my voice clip when I finally have a webcam dealybob. ;-)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw shucks :)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Harry Connick, Jr

Oh, that guy's a Cajun. He talks crazy.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

HEY it didn't bounce on me! Only I sent it to the wrong address. Let me try again.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

No wait, it went tot he right address. CLEARLY I SHOULD BE SLEEPING.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

CONFUSION!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, did Dan give into the gmail thing? YOU PEOPLE ARE A CULT, GET AWAY FROM ME.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

posh, good sir.

― grand kliegal (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

My voice is here:
http://www.sr.se/p3/diverse/appdata/pop/sounds/popA.ram
and here:
http://www.sr.se/p3/diverse/appdata/pop/sounds/popB.ram
inbetween the songs!

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Enormous singing.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

my voice, ladies and gentlemen.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

latebloomer, all that link got me was a popup window where I had to shoot a pineapple to try and win a prize.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

posh, good sir.

The weird thing is that I actually now do have this 2GB Yahoo account I knew nothing about!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

HEY NED, WANT AN MP3?

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

For the comp?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

No, just to hear me sing. (I'm wary of putting something with a whole bunch of other people on it on the comp without getting permission first.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Record yourself solo in the shower. (You can send it if you like, but I need to figure out the address again first!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

latebloomer, all that link got me was a popup window where I had to shoot a pineapple to try and win a prize.
-- Homosexual II (mandeewrigh...), September 1st, 2004.

sorry about that, i forgot about the angelfire no hotlinking thing. but coincidentally, shooting pineapples to win prizes is what my voice DOES actually sound like.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it weird that I have no idea?

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a really beautiful song that Dan sent to the gmail. I could lie to the rest of you who received this and say that that's me at 8:28 who coughs.

But it wasn't me.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The plan

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I like your laugh.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...
http://www.pbs.org/speak/

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, this site has a section on dialectical prejudice! I wonder if they're going to get into that on the program. I'd still watch it regardless, definitely. It'd be VERY intriguing.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

weird that i revived this tonight:
Please Call Stella

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Mandee, you sound like my best girlfriend from high school. I always thought she had a really unique voice.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i a have a cold

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago

― Holly (an appletross), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooooh! I'll post my commercial voice-over demo soon!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm watching the PBS special. They're all wrong about the midwest as the hub of "correct speaking," standard broadcaster American English, etc. The midwestern accent has too much German/Polish/Scandi influence. The west coast (from SoCal up to Vancouver, BC) is where the accent is the most "standard."

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, totally.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

right, because EVERYONE in california is a surfer. ;-)

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't wait to hear old ladies in the 2050s saying, "Dude, where are my dentures? I like, totally lost 'em!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

what i don't like about this special is how it's supposed to be a "state of the union" report on dialects today, yet they mostly interview senior citizens with dialects that have been slowly dying out for generations. that's always fun to hear about, but i'm sorta more interested in what people speak like now and the ways they're leveling those old speech patterns with something more modern and standardized. is it really right to say "louisianans speak like this" if it only represents a tiny part of the population in 2004?

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 January 2005 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

oh also apparently america is filled with illiterate/naive hispanics and hip-hop kids, and yes, EVERY white person in california is a surfer, skater, or val.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

OMIGAWD!

Spencer's demo should be a treat. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

and they didn't interview any "educated" americans unless they were linguistic anthropologists or language experts in some way.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 January 2005 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I found that program to be quite irritating from the beginning and thus only ended up watching the first hour of it. It seems as though they were angling for the most antiquated or hackneyed "local" dialects without thinking of how much more homogenized the way of speaking throughout the U.S. has become (as has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, yes *smile*). I mean, not like this homogenization has caused those without the overtly discernible vernacular of old to sound EXACTLY the same -- there are regional-influenced differences that may not be audible at first, but can be picked up with careful listening. Maybe if that evolution in communication would've been covered, maybe *then* it would've been a much better program.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 6 January 2005 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(i.e. dude, they should've talked to US, man!

*laughs*

[Only kidding.])

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 6 January 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Was that youtube video anyone else's first exposure to Ned's voice? It was strange hearing him for the first time after reading his posts/reviews for 8 years. His voice is downright sexy.

― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Englande!

http://www.go-quick.com/ILXVol3.html

― Mark G, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

x-post -- Do go on. (There's actually a fair amount of me speaking out there now, via spoken word releases of sorts and Tombot collaborations and etc.)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder where my MP3 of pi is.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 1 November 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

i sometimes cohost a weekly video game show on the twin cities sports talk show...you can listen to them here, i'm on a few, most recently the 10/10 broadcast and the also the one where we talk about the scariest games

http://www.kfan.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=Video_Games_Weekly.xml

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

This guy in my govt class and I ran into each other at a party this weekend. He was all sketchy and nervous, and asked if I'd called into Dan Savage's podcast 3 weeks ago. I told him I hadn't, and he explained what it was: a girl who sounds just like me, same details – 24, dating for 3 years, gonna get married, shit libido/sex life. Dan told her GET OUT NOW and that he thought she might be gay. This guy, too, he'd thought I was a lesbian (everyone does) because of "how I put my clothes together." well, it's true, that girl sounds just fucking like me.

― Abbott, Friday, 2 November 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty much what I sound like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_HUCBq8nLQ

Out of sync, and stupid!

― roxymuzak, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

I posted this to the homophones thread the other day:

http://www.tricksy.plus.com/myhomophones.mp3

― Alba, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

I remember your voice from the previous post, where you talked about meeting at the pub, and pubs vs. bars, etc. I liked it.

― roxymuzak, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot all about that.

― Alba, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

I forget nothing.

― roxymuzak, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

I have been a little self-conscious about my voice, especially since Cathy said the other day that I clearly had the highest voice out of me, RJG and Ally C, even though it's true, I have.

― Alba, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

I like your voice too. I like the way it sounds like you've got something constricting your throat. And you're right, it is out of sync. You should see someone about that.

― Alba, Friday, 2 November 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

Constricting my throat!

― roxymuzak, Friday, 2 November 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Here's me singing the popular Finnish tune "Mombasa":

http://www.zshare.net/audio/601304146e4300e5/

(Beat and voice processing courtesy of a friend.)

― Tuomas, Sunday, 17 May 2009 10:07 (seventeen years ago)

Aw, Roxy I like your voice!!

I already posted this on the what do your pets look like thread but this is what I sound like when talking stupidly to my parents' dog.

― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Sunday, 17 May 2009 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://vocaroo.com/
"Vocaroo - The premier voice recording service."

― Sébastien, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 04:00 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://soundcloud.com/hurting2/curtom

recent 'initial jam session' with friend (me on guitar, him on drums)

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 January 2011 05:08 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

Made a beat out of Hissing of Summer Lawns. Kind of a rough version - needs editing.

http://soundcloud.com/hurting2/jonibeat-v2

― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 July 2011 17:30 (fourteen years ago)

http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2011/07/18/retraining-camp/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH8x6DZ22VU

― Gorge, Monday, 18 July 2011 18:09 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

New beat demo:

http://soundcloud.com/hurting2/
laughterintheeyesv2

a little bit dilla, a little bit kanye

still cleaning up the drums so it's not perfect, but sounds pretty good

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Saturday, 10 September 2011 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

sorry, link:

http://soundcloud.com/hurting2/laughterintheeyesv2

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Saturday, 10 September 2011 05:12 (fourteen years ago)

Meanwhile, my brother just produced this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4e_iwQZxwQ&feature=player_embedded#!

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Saturday, 10 September 2011 13:52 (fourteen years ago)

that's nice, man. seems like it's set up for a vocal, rather than being a stand-alone thing? love the samples (not really feeling that open hi-hat though?).

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Saturday, 10 September 2011 14:57 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, definitely intended as a track for vocals. Noted about the open hi-hat. I think I need a better hi-hat sound. Have kind of a limited palette atm.

― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Sunday, 11 September 2011 04:33 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

I don't think I ever posted this. It's the only surviving video I know of of my old band -- a set we did at Southpaw in Brooklyn. The sound is bad, the video is bad, you can't see me at all, and it wasn't our best night, but I guess it's more or less what we sounded like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92VmZl-EVVw

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:58 (thirteen years ago)

shameless plug, but this is my podcasting voice:

http://jodycast.podomatic.com/entry/2013-01-18T18_15_01-08_00

― les yper-fem (get bent), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:16 (thirteen years ago)


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