Do you dislike your own voice?

Mister Vain

A lot of people seem to dislike the sound of their own voice when they hear themselves being recorded or whatever. I recently heard myself on the radio and I must admit I hated how I sounded.

I've always been a bit self conscious of my bogger accent. One time when I was younger I met a posh girl from the town so I tried to debogify my voice by putting on a slightly posh accent. It didn't work.

Starscream25

I sound like darth vader, small talk is always funny for the other person.

Sheep Lover

Sorta, but I barely hear it over the other voices in my head that are always rabbiting on

Yeah I can't stand it at all. Strange since I love singing and people love my singing. Just don't ask me to listen to myself :pac:

NotCominBack

I can't hear myself on boards

Too Tough To Die

I don't mind my singing voice. Can't listen to my speaking voice at all.

namloc1980

In my head I have a deep masculine voice. But when recorded and played back I sound like a little sissy girl.

The Backwards Man

I sound like a culchie.

Mr_Muffin

I actually have a weird accent and i love it. People say i sound like Catherine Zeta Jones even though i am male which i weird.

Mister Vain

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

I actually have a weird accent and i love it. People say i sound like Catherine Zeta Jones even though i am male which i weird.

I was getting turned on there til I read the male part.

Pumpkinseeds

No, I don't like my own voice I sound very posh.

feargale

Do you dislike how your own posts read?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Never attempt to debogify your accent, stay true to the soil son, never be a phony.

Deranged96

I sound like a cross between Donald duck and a traveller

castletownman

I sound like Liam Neeson chasing a load of cats around in a barrel. So yes

Wang King

Mister Vain wrote: »

I was getting turned on there til I read the male part.

Don't let that stop you !

strobe

Nah, I've a grand voice, deep but not too deep, nice and even tone, can't sing for **** but a cool enough speaking voice I think.

My accent on the other hand is fvcking abysmal. I mean, I knew I grew up in Tallaght, but I never realised just how strong a, well... 'skanger accent' is how most people on boards would describe it, I had until I heard myself talking on a video one time. Had been chatting to my girlfriend online for a while before we met up for the first time, and after meeting in person one of the first things she said to me were words to the effect of "oh Jesus!... Is that your accent!?".
Thankfully she is from NotDublin and therefore like all country people speaks exactly like one of the leprechauns out of 'Darby O' Gill and the Little People' so she doesn't give me too much grief over it. :pac:

Wang King

Whenever I'm in a taxi in Dublin I'm nearly always asked what part of Cork I'm from......I wouldn't mind except I'm from Kerry

Ankhyu

Yeah I hate my voice. I sound more culchie than I think I do.

But people say I sound like my mam and I don't dislike her voice. It's weird.

Starscream25

http://youtu.be/LsBugR9dpdU
This guy

PizzamanIRL

I like it because other people seem to like it

One eyed Jack

I have a very deep, dull tone in my voice, not helped by the fact that my accent (or 'knackcent') is a rather unfortunate mash-up of a spud muncher and an inner city 'waaah'.

I've taken elocution lessons so I can adopt a more neutral accent in a professional setting, but in social settings when I'm relaxed, I'm a bit like Miley Byrne on speed... it's not good! :pac:

Mister Vain

I just thought of this ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbujX4hXOg

zcorpian88

Sound like a culchie myself, people from bigger cities like how I sound and they'd know that I'm not from their surroundings

They say it's not extremely culchie but comfortably culchie, whatever that means!

Went to Liverpool for a few days to visit a mate of mine who moved over there with his Liverpool born girlfriend, when I went over I met his girlfriends family, I don't think I was ever more listened to in my life, they loved my accent.

They seemed to think I was really funny when I told random stories.

I hate to hear any recording of myself, always seems like you sound different and I'm like "I don't sound like that do I?"

The Peanut

Spending half of my life in South Tipp and half in county Cork, I sound like the sexy basta*d son of Mattie McGrath and Nano Nagle.

suicide_circus

I have a voice like a 5 year old who just fell over and hurt its knee

Knex*

I hate my regular voice, but I like my singing voice. I don't get how they're so dissimilar either.

petrolcan

I've been on the radio post. Subtle!

PLL

Oh I hate mine, it is a mixture of an English accent which has faded somewhat and a mixture of accents because I have lived in so many different places since moving back here. When I'm drunk and excited a bit of a high pitched Cork accent comes out, when with family the bogger Mayo comes out. Telling my daughter off is the 'Posh' English accent. I didn't even know me English accent was slightly posh until my daughter said bath with a posh twang and I asked my other half where did she get that from and he just looked at me really confused and said that is the way you say it.

TheBeardedLady

I like my accent and like that I've kept it even though I left Ireland yonks ago. My voice, on the other hand, always surprises people. It's extremely low and doesn't suit me at all (so I've been told); it's been compared on occasion to Ann Doyle's. I cringe when I hear it back but day-to-day, it's useful for the job I have and it generally gets people's attention, which I like, even if I scare the **** out of them in the process.

Adamantium

The the way your voice sounds recorded is the way it sounds to everybody and has been all your life. Found this out recently and it blew my mind. Until voice recording technology was invented, you could go your whole life never knowing what you sounded like to other people outside your head. Nobody knew what they sounded like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvosNz0Xq7g

GLaDOS

I hate mine, makes me sound like a massive nerd.

Which I am and all, but it doesn't make for a sexy voice.

NegativeCreep

No, I have a typical northside Dublin accent and hate it! I try to make it more neutral but it never works!

Noobascious

Hate mine too weak. I wish it had moar bass so the weeemen wud tremble and twitch to the bass!

TheBeardedLady

NegativeCreep wrote: »

No, I have a typical northside Dublin accent and hate it! I try to make it more neutral but it never works!

Why would you do that? It's where you're from! Be proud! I genuinely love it despite what the haters say.

Candy_Girl

I've been told a few times that I sound like Imelda May...not her singing voice just the talking

NegativeCreep

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

Why would you do that? It's where you're from! Be proud! I genuinely love it despite what the haters say.

I like the Dublin accent but mine is a bit too thick I think. I sound like a junkie :pac:

Mister Vain

Ever notice how anybody from Dublin who works in radio or television generally has the same sort of accent? I've never heard anybody with a strong Dublin accent working in this area, well except for Brian Kerr. I can't stand him though.

MRnotlob606

I have a waaaaaaterford accent so yeah its quite harsh to listen to.

brianpierce

I find the sound of my own voice very odd to hear. But I think it's the same for most people.

QuareHog

Call him Mr. Raider,
call him Mr. Wrong,
Call him Mister Vain,
he want to speak like a knob

zcorpian88

Candy_Girl wrote: »

I've been told a few times that I sound like Imelda May...not her singing voice just the talking

I find Imelda May pleasant to listen to when she speaks, I'd say you are lucky

TheBeardedLady

Mister Vain wrote: »

Ever notice how anybody from Dublin who works in radio or television generally has the same sort of accent? I've never heard anybody with a strong Dublin accent working in this area, well except for Brian Kerr. I can't stand him though.

Yep. That horrible Dublin accent that I only ever hear on RTE. Not too many strong country accents either or ANY country accent for that matter.

seenitall

Yes, big time, BIG time. Hate it.

Not the accent, but my actual voice. It's all nasal and weak, I don't know how people around me can stand it... I myself couldn't stand it if I had to listen to my actual voice (not the version that I myself hear when I speak - that one's ok but that one is not the reality), I'd have to do something drastic, like run away from myself, never to be seen again...

strobe

Mister Vain wrote: »

Ever notice how anybody from Dublin who works in radio or television generally has the same sort of accent? I've never heard anybody with a strong Dublin accent working in this area, well except for Brian Kerr. I can't stand him though.

Used to be known as 'the AA road watch accent', it's awful. Like an unbuttered sandwich.

One eyed Jack

strobe wrote: »

Used to be known as 'the AA road watch accent', it's awful. Like an unbuttered sandwich.

Speaking of sandwiches and newscaster's accents, that reminds me -

Ann Doyle's pronunciation of the word "sexual" was unique

If you ever heard it, it sounds like she's saying "sex you well", must see if I can find a youtube clip.

I think the thing with newscaster's accents is to try and have them as neutral as possible (as Aonghus McGrianna would say - "Whash?" :pac:)



I love a soft Dublin accent though, somewhere like Clontarf, not quite D4...

Freddiestar

I sound like a nerd but am not one. I like the way I sound when I have a sore throat.

Nathan from Sophies Choice said that eating leeks deepens your voice so I started eating leeks but no difference!

Try 'slow talking', a technique used in CBT

boobar

Hate my voice, always cringe when I hear it on video..sounds very squeaky to me but everyone else says it sounds fine.

Mister Vain

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I think the thing with newscaster's accents is to try and have them as neutral as possible (as Aonghus McGrianna would say - "Whash?" :pac:)

I love a soft Dublin accent though, somewhere like Clontarf, not quite D4...

Some of their pronunciations are woeful, like Gore dee for example.

Yes a nice soft Dublin accent is rather sexy.