To us in R&P land: when you read people's answers, do you give them voices in your head?

Question

Anyone wearing a cowboy hat automaticly gets a Southern Accent in my mind.

So ... well, without thinking I mean. Like you just read it that way. If anyone wants to share voice descriptions they have given certain people, feel free to do so. It doesnt necessarily have to be for only R&P people.
thanks.

Yes. I am Tina Fey. My cover's blown. Knew it had to happen someday.

Yes, so I'm not the only one. I feel better now.

Ok, I am trying to put my descriptions into words now. I thought this would be easier.

Also, this is why it drive me a bit nuts when I cant tell the gender of the answerer.

Will, i thought the sun glasses, blonde hair, and desert scene was enough, and you had to throw "ya'll" in there. it just too easy.

sarah n - a pretty standard female voice, the voice that is punctual and clear for giving orders, but it a bit calming.

machpen - mature like above but with more of a sexy, laid backness. a bit deeper than normal. the avatar looks british, but the voice isnt lol

chunga - a wise, mature voice. not too deep though

huevo - more youthful, the wink makes it a bit sly

tara h - a bit higher. not nasally though

lovn- at first it was pretty doom-like but after a while it got more friendly

jay - pretty cutesy, pleasant, a bit high

squichy - im hearing shakespeare

sarah c - cutesy. friendly, a bit fast

jake - you get the teen whose voice is not as low at it will be eventually.

americanwerewolfinabsentia - despite the american you get a slight british accent.

i dont think im too monotone . im not sure. ill have to ask my sister.

Thank you Dan. I would have never been able to explain it that good.

Chunga - lol thats pretty deep!

SRW - you have a warm, comforting voice. motherly, but without the age.

Answer 1

I know exactly what you're talking about. In my little world there's a system.

The vocabulary dictates your accent or just manner of speaking, if you say "y'all" you have a southern accent, if you say "thus" and "as such" and other formal scholarly phrases you speak properly and pronounce each syllable correctly, if you say "heretofore" you speak like an English knight or a character in a Shakespeare play, if you use no capitalization, lots of abreviations, no punctuation, and talk about the merits of FOB too much you sound like an adolescent.

The avatar indcates the pitch and mood. A bright smiling (especially female) avatar has a higher happy voice, a darker avatar (especially with an emo screen name) has a monotone downtrodden voice, and a nuetral avatar without favoring bright or dark colors and no extreme facial expression has a steady, reasonable, balanced voice that probably isn't too loud or passionate. And of course the ones with scowls sound on the fritz and like they're scowling. And people with pictures of themselves or other people sound like those people look. Specialty avatars are judged on a case by case basis.

Using the above criteria, my actual voice sounds nothing like my Yahoo! Answers voice.

Edit: Amazingly I agree with almost all of your imaginery voices, some you described to a tee. Although I never thought MachPen's avatar looked British.

Answer 2

LOL, I actually don't which is really odd since I usually do stuff like that...
But I do give everyone faces.... like I see Kerry King of Slayer headbanging to Billy Joel whenever I imagine Joe... lol. You look like your avatar.

Jake: Ha! You're the old avatar to me... I'm guessing its the guy from blessthefall?

Chunga: Wow... I had no idea!

conie: I'm trying to give everyone a voice, but I think Chunga tainted my mind and all I can hear now is "Wha wha wha"... either that or Mikael Åkerfeldt growling type voices. This is a odd world now....

Sarah N: You don't look like a Valley girl to me me at all..... now my voice, I would imagine people would think it sounds like a person who just suck a helium balloon....

Jake: i don't mean his's old.. lol, I meant it was your previous one... haha... I'm terrible at making myself clear you hadn't noticed.. do you hear a helium balloon sucked voice as you read this?

Jake: Wow, didn't see that coming.. lol. Well, it's better than the stereotypical "How you doin'?" Brooklyn accent that people assume I have.... I'm going to stop all these edits cause my answers a mile long.

EDIT: CONIE!!!! You nailed it! Yea, I've been told I have a very cutesy and friendly voice. I'm a new yorker, so it's pretty safe to assume I speak fast.

Answer 3

Not all the time, and not for everyone ~ just for the answerers I see here a lot :)

I have to be in the right frame of mind, though some just do seem to jump out as NEEDING a 'voice' put to them.
And it can also depend on the answer ~ that affects the tone and phrasing. But nothing too specific yet.

Hmmm. I'm now wondering what I sound like to others?

Answer 4

I almost never hear my own voice. A lot of the time I hear a british accent. Actually most of the time I do. Or I mentally read in a more proper, old times way. It's just better.

Answer 5

Thanks, Jakex. :)

We don't get enough cowboy hats in here, which is a damn shame. Spooky probably would take care of the Southern Accent department. And yes, Conie, your avatar IS Tina Fey, lol.

MachPen – LOL! I do have my Hef robe handy for those times when my crib morphs into the Playboy Mansion. My vision of you is complex. I’m torn between a Kafka-reading denizen of the coffee house and that sexy avatar. :)

Conie - Trust me, I'm not quite Robert Smith. You should see what happens when I bust out the clown collar.

Answer 6

I got enuff voices in my head, ya'll sound the same to me. LOL

Edit: The females get the Scarlett O'Hara soft southern belle accent,
the fellas get the Rhett Butler southern gentleman accent..
except for Chunga..He gets the Groovy Guru accent.

Answer 7

Hmm...I've never really thought about it! ... lol ... But I'm already scared to imagine what voice I'd be assigned! :)

edits:

*Rckts - I imagine your Rasputin character smoking a pipe and wearing a Hugh Hefner robe, speaking in a well-enunciated professor's voice ...lol

** Complex, eh? LOL :) A bit of both is fair to say :P

***Conie - Come to think of it -- I'd imagine a Tina Fey-ish monotone voice on you :)

I meant more deadpan sexy than monotone. Well, like I said - Tina Fey-ish :)

****Dan C. I imagine you back in time, in a garage 60's era :)

Answer 8

Lol! I do sometimes, either depending on what the avatar looks like, or the vocabulary in the answer.

*Btw, I don't look or sound anything like my avatar....you could actually put a cowboy hat on Nostradamus's head and that would describe my voice ;)

Answer 9

Mmmm, no, the moment I start doing that is the moment that I officially lose it, not just sit there and teeter on the brink.

It is better to be mistaken for Tina Fey than Tina Yothers.

Answer 10

Off topic, but I just want to say that your avatar looks almost exactly like Tina Fey, haha.