What do you sound like?
 

Okay...after this weekend, I have had several people comment on my voice. Everyone describe how you sound. Has anyone ever told you that you sound like someone famous?

I've never been told I sound like anyone famous, but all my friends make fun of my "country" accent. I don't notice it at all, but sometimes other people seem to. And on the telephone, I *always* get mistaken for either my mom or my younger sister, because we all sound alike!

I am always getting called on my "CHICAGO " accent. I say its bullshit, lol.

Chicago accent? Chicago HAS NO accent!

I have a slight speech impediment, but in reality, it sounds like I have an accent...I've heard people say it sounds like everyplace around the world, but most common is that i'm British...

(atleast i'm not french :) )

Oh but it does...trust me, it does....there are quite a few "Midwestern accents" around.

I am SOUTHERN born and bred.....lol

But I have a nice voice. Babies seem to like it, I guess cause it's so high at times....lol

I don't sound WAY Southern, but I say the words like, ya'll, oil, there, are, fine, hey, hi, and a few select words way too country. Serioulsy, if you have lived in TN most of your life......you end up with an accent.

I answered the phone one day when my roomie's mom called, and her mom said she would never have guessed that I was Korean and it was my first language. Seriously, I have never met another Korean gal with a Southern accent besides me....

Well THANK YOU....I say we have no accent either, but i've heard that my A's sound weird, like "daaaaaaaaaaaaad". I dunno.
Yesterday in the mall some chickie was like, I love your accent! It's so cute and ghetto!!!
I'm like, bitch! I grew up in the suburbs! Ferris Bueller's day off was filmed at my school!

Dude and yours is one of the worst, by far. LOL

Eh, but that's ok, cuz you are fake Chicago anyway.....take it back to the burbs :)

thread hijacker.....get back to the topic

I had a linguists professor tell me that I have the most mixed up accent he's ever heard!

Although, I can sing Happy Birthday like Marilyn Monroe! ;)

My friends have told me I have a country-southern accent. I've heard it too.. and sometimes I even call myself on it.. like I'll say "Ohmygosh.. did you just hear how i said that?!" hehehe. I've always talked the way I do, but just recently began "hearing" my accent:)

edited to include: honeychile: I can sing "Happy Birthday" like Marilyn Monroe to!!!!!!

i've been told I have the Cincinnati "A" in full force, but i never really noticed it until i went to college and most of my friends were from Cleveland, Columbus or Toledo. Now even my family notices it. I guess it just became more pronounced.

My accent is wierd. It's definately a mix of Chicago where I grew up, and then what we call the Arizona mutt accent of valley girl and southern. Some words I say have a decidedly Chicagoan sound to them, and others sound more southen. Wierd.

As for my tone, my voice is in the lower range for females, and I've been told it's very sexy and feminine by many people.

I have been told more times than I can count that I sound like an actress named Joey Adams (?) or something like that. She was in that Adam Sandler movie, "Big Daddy" and she's apparently really little-girly sounding.

When I answer the phone when salespeople call, they always, always ask if they can speak to my mommy :rolleyes:

I absolutely hate my voice (though I'm sure everyone hates their own)... i run and hide when people play voicemail or answering machine messages from me.

I don't know how to describe it.... though people tell me i definitely sound like i'm from chicago when i say certain words :)

I wouldn't say I have an accent just a higher voice. Think little girl that hasn't grown up. A vocalist woman once told me my voicebox didn't grow, but who knows. Anyways, when someone calls they go "is your mommy there?" UGH! And then I proceed with "...no...she died" ha

Lessee... try and picture this:

My voice sounds like it has a Noo Yawk accent thrown in with some Texanisms to thoroughly confuse the locals. ("Hay-ell, lessgeddoudaheeah, y'all".) It's high-pitched enough to confuse people who are talking to me (who don't know me) over the phone that they're speaking to a woman, and consequently address me as "ma'am". (Don't get any f*ckin' ideas -- it DOES NOT sound effeminate! :)) Until I correct them.

Ditto that. It's ridiculous. I love the people who launch into a long story intended for my mom right off the bat, and I have to butt in and say she'll be on the line in a second.

In my humble opinion, I sound very high pitched on the phone. (I hate the sound of my speaking voice, too, btw.) People say I sound quite different from my speaking voice. Maybe that's because I'm not really a phone person.

People also say I end a lot of statements on a high pitch, like they're a question.

I have a slight southern accent but unlike most southerners I speak fast. Guess it comes from living in the South most my life and parents from New York.lol

ok, so i should sound like i am from deep south AL, but i don't think i do.....i have a slight accent, but most ppl don't guess i am from as far down as i am. i talk super fast....but it depends who i am around as to how thick my southern accent goes. never do i ever say "liiiike" or "spriiiiite".....i do say "y'all" and all that......

i hate how i sound on voice mails.....

When I am in RI visiting my family I get made fun of for my use of the word "y'all". And when I come back to Texas I am the butt of jokes for forgetting to pronounce my R's. Generally I fall into the accent I am around at the time. It really annoys my Mom who is 100% Texan. But that is what she gets for marrying a Yankee. :D

I have a slightly northen accent then my actual geographical location....it's something like a mixed Chicago/Wisconsin...espcially when I talk really fast!

Never, ever, stop saying y'all!!!

Y'all listen, learn, and copy the use of the word y'all now!

I don't really have much of an accent. It depends on who I'm talking to though.. I can have a pretty thick Okie accent at times.

Almost everyone has tinges of some kind of accent. The "norm," if there is such a thing, is called "General American" and sounds mostly like those in the Midwest. However, even Midwesterners (like me) have regional dialects and mannerisms.

I was a TV announcer and disc jockey while in college and people like my voice. It's not terribly deep, but fairly resonant, I guess.

At least the young women used to like it.

Happens with us all of the time!! I don't get it.

People always confuse me and my sister on the telephone. We both have young sounding voices. I guess I would say I have a subtle (eastern) mid-west accent with Spanish undertones.

I have a deep, sexy, and very dominant voice.

As for accent...I sure hope I don't have one.

I'm from Florida and I go to the University of Arkansas...so my girls make fun of me for being "northern" sounding...i don't have that southern twang I guess...what can ya do

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.