I have a deep gravelly voice. I have had people tell me it is sexy, sultry, phone sex operator-ish, and manly, lol. Guess it depends on what you like.

As for accent, I have a spanish/country/yankee thing going on. I don't know, lol.

Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was an undergrad in college (well... not THAT long ago! :) ) at the University of Oklahoma, people used to ask me where I was from. When I replied 'Miami', they thought it was the little bitty ol' pi**ant country place in far northeastern Oklahoma that's properly pronounced 'My-am-uh' and not 'Mi-am-ee' like the city on the southern tip of the Florida peninsula.

I have a voice that sounds just ridiculous, if you listen to my voice mail you'd know why. I sound like a little girl and it's very....bubbly, think like almost annoying cheerleaderish voice....but I am from Nebraska so I don't have an accent, though I wish I had a southern accent. :(

Yeah, all guys want are girls that sound like James Earl Jones.

-Rudey
--Dang, sucks to be you.

Nah I think it sucks more to sound like Pee Wee Herman and be short enough to fit inside a stove.

I have worked long and hard to avoid developing an accent, even though I've lived in several places (New York, Boston, San Antonio) known for distinctive accents, and even though both my parents had strong and very different accents (one from Brooklyn, one from the UK). I guess I probably have a New England accent if anything (but definitely not a Boston accent) - although the odd "y'all" or "wicked" does pop out occasionally, and I pronounce some words in the British style (I pronounce the "h" in "herb", for instance). Confuses the heck out of people :)

As for pitch, my speaking voice is fairly low-pitched even though I am a mezzo-soprano. I've never been asked if my mommy could come to the phone, even when I was 8 years old... *shrug*

I'm not sure how to describe my voice! I suppose I can say that it's slightly lower than some women - not surprising as I tend to sing in alto. Being from California, I hit heavy on the "R". :)

At my previous job, I used to have to call students regarding their degree completion and transfer credits. I often had to leave voice mail for students. One student called me back about a message and mentioned that she and her husband liked my voice so that they think I should go into radio broadcasting or something!

Also, my sister and I sound very much alike. I've stopped counting how many times her friends have called and launched right into conversations with me. I'd just play along with "uh-huh"..."no way!"...etc etc until I got bored. Then I'd hand the phone to my sister and say, "It's one of your friends." :) I figure it serves them right for not being polite enough to ask for my sister when I answer the phone.

Decadence might be interested to know that I used to speak with a posh English accent thanks to my time living in Bath. Now, I'm [unfortunately?] starting to pick up a Bristolian accent!! :)

I've learnt the krek waiter's peak Bristle! I'm from Americer and that's one gert behg country! Ant chew erred? ASDAL is from Americer... that's Wal Mert to us!

;) ;)

"Bristol...we put the 'L' in charismal."

.....Kelly :)

If you don't have at least some small regionalism, you are probably in about 1% of the population.

Nearly everyone has one.

You uhh make uhh no sense uhhh.

-Rudey
--Nada

Damn Yankee - right here!
 

I live in Florida, but there are just some things that people say down here that really sound southern. (I grew up in California and New York). My name, for instance. My real name is Shannon, but people down here say the "a" like the "a" in "an" and I say it like the "a" in "apple." Which is why I go by Shae, which is pretty hard to mispronounce! My friends say I have a distinct northern accent, and sometimes the New Yorker in me busts out with some "cawfee" and "New Yawk" action.

For those Noo Yawkers who are hopelessly trapped behind the 'Grits Curtain', don't forget the following saying by John Occhiogrosso, who won a contest in Houston some years ago for a weekend in Noo Yawk City because he could pronounce the following in proper Noo Yawk-ese:

"I'm on the thirty-third floor of the New York Stadler. Can I have a cup of coffee and a glass of water?"

Pronounced phonetically:

"O'im on the toity-toid flowah od da Noo Yawk Stadla. Can oi hab a cuppa cawfee and a glazza wattah?"

:D

I, too, have a slight speech impediment as well. People think I'm from the Islands when I speak.:rolleyes:

I was amused by the Lawng Ahhlanders I met in college who told me I had a southern accent. (Well, it is southern PA.) The longer I live in Pittsburgh, the more I get the yinzer accent and the more the people from my hometown sound REALLY country.

My mother passed away a few years ago and everyone always said we sounded exactly alike on the phone. Sometimes when I am at my dad's I'll pick up and answer and I can hear the person on the other end doing a "double take" until they remember it's me.

Tracy, you do NOT sound like Joey Lauren Adams. If you did, I could never have hung out with you for an evening, LOL. Her voice drives me nuts.

I don't really have an accent (I'm from Washington, DC) however if I go on vacation somewhere, I tend to pick up the accents eventually for some reason. Since I'm transferring to Univ of Tennessee starting this summer, all my friends are like, YOU'RE GOING TO COME BACK WITH AN ACCENT AREN'T YOU!! (I probably will!) Later ya'll! ;)