Speaking Of The Loungers...

[LizzieMaine]

Smooth, clear contralto, without a trace of dialect or accent unless I deliberately revert to it -- a legacy of my years in radio.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

without a trace of dialect or accent

Does this mean educated East Coast American English standard?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Or "NPR English," for want of a better term.

'Less, o' coss, I wanna staht tokkin' like a Mainah.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

I hate the sound of my voice played back to me.

Oh, yes - that's just not me. (Might be my father through a 'phone, though.)

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Oh, me too. My voice sounds great inside my head, but when I listen to a tape of myself, I sound, well, bleagh.

My voice is fairly high-pitched considering my size. If there's a California (not "Valley" or "Surfer") accent, I probably have it.

Too bad there's not plastic surgery for the voice box and vocal cords. People pay good money to have Kirk Douglas' chin or Brad Pitt's... whatever, but I'd pay a pretty penny to sound like Anthony Hopkins or Sean Connery.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Quiet, annoying, little girlish, and very surfer-ish if I get really excited or pissed off. And I laugh REALLY loud if I'm highly amused.

I can attest that her voice is not in the least way annoying; it is full of energy and enthusiasm, and is indeed sprinkled with, what I would call, California-isms.

As for me, I have been told that I speak exactly as I write. So, I think my phrasing is the same. As for accent, I am from Philadelphia, so I don't have a Boston accent. It must be a pastiche between both.

 

[scotrace]

While in radio I cultivated a very soft delivery that I now cannot shed, and cannot make myself heard in normal conversation. It's very annoying to hold forth on some topic or another, thinking I'm really driving home my point and brilliantly holding my audience in rapt attention, only to learn that not a word of it was heard.
So I mainly just shut up.

Radio also killed off my ability to speed read. Even to myself, I read every word with inflection - sort of reading aloud in my head - and it takes forever and a day to get through a book.

Of those I have spoken with in person:
Hemingway Jones, Zohar, MK, Andykev, Matt Deckard, Sharpetoys, Major Nick Danger, KimSteiner (traveling hat) and Art Fawcett, all sounded exactly as I imagined except MK and Art.

 

[funneman]

You can hear me here:

http://herseyproductions.com/

and here from 6am to 11am weekdays:

http://850wftl.com/

..and if you've ever heard a radio, TV, or movie theatre commercial for Pet Supermarket, you've head my voice.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Scott, Your voice is pretty deep. It's a good strong American voice.

 

["Doc" Devereux]

It suddenly occurs to me that you can hear (one of) my voice(s) online. Here's an MP3 of a fake ad we did for the old show, with the archives here.

 

[funneman]

Here's an MP3 of a fake ad we did for the old show[/URL], with the archives here.

As soon as I can get the coffee out of my nose I'm gonna play this for the guys in the control room.

That is fall down funny.

 

[Nathan Flowers]

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Fairly deep, probably a baritone. Southern accent, but not especially pronounced. Reasonably good enunciation, fairly decent vocabulary. For those of you in the south, think historian Walter Edgar, maybe one notch lower, with slightly less of an accent.

 

[FedoraGent]

What I sound like...

Doc, just thought I'd say you sound brilliant. Thanks for posting that. Little did I know that while you guys were posting your sound bites, I was posting mine. What do I sound like? Well, here is a snippet from a podcast that I was doing last year that accompanied a weekly political column I used to write.
My Little Sound Bite

FG.

 

["Doc" Devereux]

As soon as I can get the coffee out of my nose I'm gonna play this for the guys in the control room.

That is fall down funny.

Thank you very much, here's another one of my favourites. Me again, I'm afraid, but the real skill with this one is Mr Gideon Farquharson (AKA Stevie Lee Webb) with editing, sound effects and the voice giving the time check.

 

[Feraud]

I am a typical New Yawka and Italian to boot.
I figure I speak somewhere in the range of a Joe Pesci with a little John Turturro thrown in for good measure.

 

[Tomasso]

Very Funny, Doc!

lol :eusa_clap lol :eusa_clap

 

[Steve]

Despite having a traditional deep South family, I missed a gene somewhere along the way and speak without an accent. My voice is somewhat nasal a lot of the time, so I cover it up by speaking in the lower registers as much as possible. I also have a slight stutter that comes out every so often, usually at the more inopportune moments.

 

[matei]

I sound like... me!

 

[Johnnysan]

Everytime I see someone's avatar, I quickly imagine a voice to go with the face when reading a post... well, just reading a post does that.

If you're going by the face in the avatar, my barks are predominantly Midwestern with a slight twinge of Welsh.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

No accent, I've lived in too many places. I've also been told I have that newscaster way of speaking, but sometimes I talk too fast and get a little tounge tied. I think I picked up the fast talking thing while living in NY, but my brain is still in Southern slow motion.