Do you have a telephone voice?

Chocoholic84

Whether you use it for work-related calls, or when talking to strangers, etc...

I'm always getting slagged if my mates/OH hear me making an appt/ordering a pizza, etc., as I change my voice automatically, they say I go into "posh mode"! Must sound gas seeing as I normally have a big culchie accent...it's not something I do on purpose though, it just seems to automatically leap into action when I'm on the phone on "business".

Amyone else have one?

tolosenc

Nope. I don't have an accent.

Degsy

Yes.
*clears throat*

I know you're alone hurr hurr hurr.

PinkLady001

Yes, some of my friends accuse me of the exact same thing when I order a take away. It even jsut happened on Sat night, they were falling around the place laughing. Makes me wonder if my normal accent is really bad ...

Maddison

Yes I have to have an uber posh telephone voice in work....I wouldnt exactly be common whatsoever anyway. My sister is a bit of a commoner & her phone voice is hilarious.....her normal way of saying goodbye is f*uck off so Its weird hearing her say goodbye.:D

Vain

My sister does it, also does it while shes drunk. Love driving her mad mocking her about it.

wexford202

I have a very posh telephone voice. Even my old collegues justed to call me miss posh.

I sound completly different in person.

I think it depends on your job and if you have to be assertive in your works it often comes out as sounding posh

AnonoBoy

Why yes, yes I do have a telephone voice.

I'm using it right now.

Can't you tell?

Dravokivich

Yes... but that's becuase i work in a complaints dept... and my accent is not very comforting when someone is moaning over the phone...

- Drav!

Wazdakka

I used to change my voice when I was on the telephone all the time.

Then I got a voice scrambler and dont need to worry anymore.
The ransom is always paid and nobody has a clue who they are talking to.

pikachucheeks

Yup!

Surely it's normal to make an effort with your speech when you're speaking to people for work purposes? You have to make a good impression.

I also have a radio presenting voice! I'm multi-talented, me! :pac:

Fajitas!

I've worked in too many offices not to have a telephone voice.

Dido1

Wazdakka wrote: »

I used to change my voice when I was on the telephone all the time.

Then I got a voice scrambler and dont need to worry anymore.
The ransom is always paid and nobody has a clue who they are talking to.

lol!! Handy.

I used to work with a girl who had an awful telephone voice. She concentrated so much on sounding posh that she would often end up pronouncing words completely arseways! It was hilarious. Anyway made me wonder if i have one, was never aware of it before but alas yes i have a hint of a one! Cringe

brummytom

Why yes, I suppose it's because I have a common accent that some may find hard to interpret... So I tend to emphasise words moreso on the phone.

Tally ho.


(I do, yeah)

tech77

Wazdakka wrote: »

I used to change my voice when I was on the telephone all the time.

Then I got a voice scrambler and dont need to worry anymore.
The ransom is always paid and nobody has a clue who they are talking to.

I bet your friends crack up listening to you though.

Dord

Yeah, well... when you're speaking to foreigners every day on the phone you quickly learn that you need to adjust your accent so that they will understand.
It's not a posh accent though, just slower and more clearly I guess.

Novella

I hate talking on the phone, everyone slags me about how upbeat I sound :mad: When I make phone calls in work, I go into super happy "HIIIII! HOW ARE YOU?!! WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?" mode, whereas I'm usually just like "....Whatever!" haha.

Karl Hungus

No, but I wish I had Patrick Stewart as my telephone voice.

javaboy

In person you ask but over the phone one wishes to enquire.

Wazdakka

javaboy wrote: »

In person you ask but over the phone one wishes to enquire.

And the answer is still NO!!

Stop callling me...

**Timbuk2**

http://malinaspo.blogg.se/images/2008/hyacinthcopy_22404657.jpg

Hello the Bucket residence, the lady of the house speaking.

Degsy

Karl Hungus wrote: »

No, but I wish I had Patrick Stewart as my telephone voice.

And you'd try to work the word "Engage" in to the conversation as often as possible.

I'd like Oliver Reed's voice so i could tell people to "**** off" and they'd like it!

Degag

My mother constantly shouts down the phone.... Quite annoying when i'm in bed in the morning/ afternoon.

A mate of mine puts on an american accent when talking to americans after a few drinks...

Hels88

Yes - I always sound posher and use really long words when I'm on the phone to people I don't know. I know I'm doing it but just can't seem to use my normal voice.

It also sounds like I'm way younger when I'm on the phone, I answered the phone in work one day and the customer asked was there "any real adults there at all?" I got so annoyed at that, I was 20 at the time and was the most senior member of staff there.

Professey Chin

My phone voice is really quiet since I hate talking on the phone and go really shy. I blame working in a call-centre. Stupid phones

mink_man

yes i have a telephone voice
this is a pic of me! http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:nKSAbF9ed3c14M:http://www.columnrecords

and this is my voice "im lookin for fun, friendship and maybe more! give me a ring and ill show you my boobs!"

MultiUmm

Yeah, I tend to put on a bit of a posh voice when talking to someone important. :pac: Now by important I mean someone from the bank or something.

I think most people do it when they're talking to someone like that, although for things like getting a pizza I use my regular culchie from west Cork accent.

Acacia

Yes, I'm polite and posh on the phone, and can come off a bit nervous. Not great on the phone, I have to say.

MultiUmm

Degag wrote: »

My mother constantly shouts down the phone....

Quite annoying when i'm in bed in the morning/ afternoon.

A mate of mine puts on an american accent when talking to americans after a few drinks...

Same hear, I think she's gone half deaf from speaking into the phone like everyone else can't hear but her.

Hels88

Hels88 wrote: »

It also sounds like I'm way younger when I'm on the phone, I answered the phone in work one day and the customer asked was there "any real adults there at all?" I got so annoyed at that, I was 20 at the time and was the most senior member of staff there.

:eek: What happened when you got to 21!!!!!!!:pac:

useful_contacts

Chocoholic84 wrote: »

Whether you use it for work-related calls, or when talking to strangers, etc...

I'm always getting slagged if my mates/OH hear me making an appt/ordering a pizza, etc., as I change my voice automatically, they say I go into "posh mode"! Must sound gas seeing as I normally have a big culchie accent...it's not something I do on purpose though, it just seems to automatically leap into action when I'm on the phone on "business".

Amyone else have one?

yea i do- i sound v posh on the phone and im a big townie. my family get some kick off it

Super-Rush

I use the same voice for all conversations and apparently it sexy!!!! I was presenting a radio show last year and one guy sent in a text saying i sounded like Neil Delamere....wank3r

Overheal

Chocoholic84 wrote: »

Whether you use it for work-related calls, or when talking to strangers, etc...

I'm always getting slagged if my mates/OH hear me making an appt/ordering a pizza, etc., as I change my voice automatically, they say I go into "posh mode"! Must sound gas seeing as I normally have a big culchie accent...it's not something I do on purpose though, it just seems to automatically leap into action when I'm on the phone on "business".

Amyone else have one?

sure. i have a workphone voice. youre dealing with customers who have variable disposition. of course you need to sound "nice", meaning cheerful, and uppity. ****ers. when im ordering a pizza for example, or talking to a friend: no. my usual self.

poindexter

i deliver chinese some nights, and if it's busy i would answer phone while waiting on jobs being made. every time when someone is ordering over the phone, they will have one kinda mundane and drone of a voice when giving their address and phone number, and that changes to a more happy upbeat tone when i ask what food they would like.

3qsmavrod5twfe

Dravokivich wrote: »

Yes... but that's becuase i work in a complaints dept... and my accent is not very comforting when someone is moaning over the phone...

- Drav!

You are not supposed to use sex lines in work

veryangryman

Not so much a telephone voice as a telephone "manner"

Some people sound like such gobs on the phone. No manners/tact or anything. And thats just the grown ups

Thank god our supervisor didnt mind us hanging up on dopes

Abi

No, I don't have a telephone voice. But I'm probably a little more pleasant if its for work, rather than the usual scowl. I fcuking hate phones with a passion.

T-K-O

No phone voice here but as a previous poster said telephone manner.

One of my friends has the most ridiculous phone voice - always makes me giggle.

Lorrs33

I make my voice softer and as clear as I can on the phone because I have a tendency to mumble.

My boyfriend has one too, it's very deep, he doesn't believe me!

Bonavox

No, I always sound like a weirdo on the phone. Its not like I make no attempt, its just my attempt makes me sound like a sword swinging, bat killing rapist.

brummytom

I've already replied, but I s'pose I dont have so much a different voice one the phone as much as just slowing down, speaking more eloquently so people can understand (they're working in call centres in India, I doubt they can decipher a brummy accent).
Apparently I sound like my dad on the phone - which is depressing because he's nearly 50

My nan (God rest her soul) always used to answer the phone with "Hellooo? The Houston residence" in a weird thick Dublin accent trying to be posh.... she lived on her own, how's that a family residence?

Abi

brummytom wrote: »

My nan (God rest her soul) always used to answer the phone with "Hellooo? The Houston residence" in a weird thick Dublin accent trying to be posh.... she lived on her own, how's that a family residence?

"The lady of the house speaking"

Sounds like she had a touch of Hyacinth Bucket about her

Redpunto

yep - i is very posh

brummytom

Abigayle wrote: »

"The lady of the house speaking"

Sounds like she had a touch of Hyacinth Bucket about her

Nan once went on a trip with the Catholic Women's League to the Birmingham Hippodrome (theatre), and Patricia Routledge was sitting in front.
Nan screamed to one of the catty women "It's Mrs Bucket!!!"

She turned round and said (in her Hyacinth voice): "It's Bouqet!"

Mossy Monk

yes I do have a telephone voice.

AdamusAdonis

My father does the posh phone voice all the time, I think he knows it too :P
I, on the other hand, can be sure I don't. Working tech support for a couple of years and my accent remains consistently unintelligible

challengemaster

Seperate accent for phone? naaah

I just happen to have a very deep voice, which phones tend to pick up on and amplify even more... So it ends up sounding like a 40+ year old smoker on the other end of the line

Gummy Panda

Yes i have a telephone voice but i only use it when ringing blind black girls.


"...... Hello.. is it me you're looking for?"

towel401

nah just a very bad indian accent I use for unknown numbers

xOxSinéadxOx

no I don't, I use the same big bogger accent. my granny has an awful telephone accent though, really posh :pac:

JangoFett

Chocoholic84 wrote: »

Whether you use it for work-related calls, or when talking to strangers, etc...

I'm always getting slagged if my mates/OH hear me making an appt/ordering a pizza, etc., as I change my voice automatically, they say I go into "posh mode"! Must sound gas seeing as I normally have a big culchie accent...it's not something I do on purpose though, it just seems to automatically leap into action when I'm on the phone on "business".

Amyone else have one?

I worked in a call centre for 4 years, well 2 call centres for a combined two years, and I certainly have a phone voice!
In my current job I have to answer phones occasionally and I need to sounds polite and professional so I do and that voice travels over into my normal life.

People should have phone manners, I think so anyway!