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Mary Mando

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When you hear your voice recorded for the first time, it isn't usually something that you enjoy. It is a shock. Some wonder, "What's wrong with this equipment." Others are just stunned and flabbergasted.
It is actually quite a simple phenomenon though. How we think we sound is different then how we really sound.
Under normal circumstances our hearing is due to the sound waves on the air reaching our ears, "banging" our ear drums (yep that was a bad pun), vibrating the bones of the inner ear, stimulating the hair cells within the cochlea, changing into electronic signals which are then sent to the brain for interpretation. It is an amazing process, but the interpretation of sound is all based on sound waves.
There are a few things that can alter sound. For speaking purposes, the reason your voice sounds different when you speak then when you hear a recording of yourself is simple, it's all in your head. Not that you have gone crazy or anything, but the tissues and bones of your head effect the sound you hear. Your cochlea is stimulated by sound waves through the normal process, but also by the vibrations of your bones from the action of speaking. It causes you to hear yourself in two parts, the first out in the air through sound waves, and the second within yourself as vibrations.
The answer is simple, it's all in your head, literally!
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100% said:
Yes, apart from the radio broadcaster voice, the conversation itself was not as exciting.

It went something like this
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
"Helllllllloooo?"
"Can you hear me?"
zed types - i can hear you
"I can't hear you"
zed types - I do not have a microphone
"Damn shame that is"
zed types - i'm new to this, was just trying it out
"Fuck you newb"
zed types - No fuck you
"do you want to hear me sing?"
zed types - why not? hit it
"lalalala lola la la lola etc etc

I don't exactly remember the convo, but it was your basic i got technical failure typo thing.
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Quality.

I have a much better singing voice. True story.

Maybe I should pretend life is a musical and everything'll be sorted.

But not Sweeney Todd, you fucking psychopath.
 
chalice said:
:glag:

Quality.

I have a much better sining voice. True story.

Maybe I should pretend life is a musical and everything'll be sorted.

But not Sweeney Todd, you fucking psychopath.
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She said, "My boy, I think someday
You'll find a way
To make your natural tendencies pay
You'll be a dentist
You have a talent for causin' things pain
Son, be a dentist

sort of thing like
 
I sound fine in all circumstances, and if I choose, I can sound positively awesome.

I'm quite sure you all sound fine as well, but lack confidence for some silly reason. :whistling
 
Ever heard your own voice on tape? It shatters your illusions no end.

When I hear people on the radio from my home town, I cringe like fuck. I can't stand my own accent.

I'd rather sound like Stephen fucking Hawking.

Do you like the sound of your own voice? And if not, what kind of accent would you like to have?
 
Mine is weird. Sort of well-spoken (without being posh) with a hint of London twang and Devonshire Burr.

When I'm angry it's more Londony, and when I'm drunk it becomes more Devony.

I can't stand the sound of it.
 
Here is a prime example of a Belfast millie.

She displays perfect stupidity and her voice is like a fire drill to boot.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUNDvAGWMkY[/YOUTUBE]
 
CrabGirl said:
But I especially like the accent from Northern Irelandishire, and singing songs from my favorite musical would be totally win.

"Feed me Seymour" would sound awesome.

I must say the same doesn't go for women from Northern Ireland. I get them on the phone and there is something about the timbre of their voices which sets my eardrum physically rattling and I have to set my phone to "Harpy" to filter out the bad notes.
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That's an insult to harpies, like.

The female Belfast accent is a cruel and unusual punishment. As you know, I do the wages for a call centre with about three quarters of the staff being Belfast 'millies' (as we call them).

I pity the poor fuckers on the receiving end of their sales pitch. I'm used to it but their victims must feeling like they're getting their ears ironed.
 
I'm told I sound like a posh Pakistani.

Bearing in mind that was by an adult bloke who sounds like a wee, posh, English lassie.

"I can't chat just now"

Fucking oaf.
 
I can understand if they are like just visiting a Country. I assume they must have one the same as anyone else, even if they are on military duties.

However not for the serious business of soldiering.
 
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