Do you have a telephone voice?

Super-Rush · 30-06-2009 02:15AM

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 · 30-06-2009 02:42AM

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 · 30-06-2009 09:52AM

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 · 30-06-2009 09:59AM

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 · 30-06-2009 01:53PM

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 · 30-06-2009 02:29PM

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 · 30-06-2009 02:35PM

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 · 30-06-2009 06:48PM

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 · 30-06-2009 06:58PM

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 · 30-06-2009 07:00PM

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 · 30-06-2009 07:36PM

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 · 30-06-2009 07:40PM

yep - i is very posh

brummytom · 30-06-2009 07:40PM

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 · 30-06-2009 07:44PM

yes I do have a telephone voice.

AdamusAdonis · 30-06-2009 08:46PM

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 · 30-06-2009 08:50PM

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 · 30-06-2009 09:12PM

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 · 30-06-2009 09:19PM

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

xOxSinéadxOx · 30-06-2009 09:27PM

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

JangoFett · 30-06-2009 09:30PM

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!

January · 30-06-2009 09:39PM

According to my brother, I do!

I work in a call centre and I think pronunctiation and a little bit of volume is key to callers as sometimes the phone lines can be fuzzy. Even with the saying each word clearly I still get people getting completely different words to the ones I was saying...

Oh well... I use it for ordering cabs, curries, pizzas also!!

Blush_01 · 30-06-2009 09:40PM

I have a work phone voice, and I have my normal voice. My accent gets much stronger when I'm annoyed, but I have a pretty neutral accent usually. I just speak ridiculously quickly.

Do you have a telephone voice?

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