Do you dislike your own voice?

Mister Vain · 23-01-2015 07:13PM #1

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 · 23-01-2015 07:15PM

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

Sheep Lover · 23-01-2015 07:15PM

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

23-01-2015 07:15PM

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 · 23-01-2015 07:16PM

I can't hear myself on boards

Too Tough To Die · 23-01-2015 07:16PM

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

namloc1980 · 23-01-2015 07:17PM

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 · 23-01-2015 07:18PM

I sound like a culchie.

Mr_Muffin · 23-01-2015 07:20PM

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 · 23-01-2015 07:21PM

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 · 23-01-2015 07:21PM

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

feargale · 23-01-2015 07:22PM

Do you dislike how your own posts read?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 23-01-2015 07:22PM

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

Deranged96 · 23-01-2015 07:24PM

I sound like a cross between Donald duck and a traveller

castletownman · 23-01-2015 07:26PM

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

Wang King · 23-01-2015 07:28PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

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

Don't let that stop you !

strobe · 23-01-2015 07:28PM

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 · 23-01-2015 07:29PM

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 · 23-01-2015 07:29PM

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 · 23-01-2015 07:31PM

http://youtu.be/LsBugR9dpdU
This guy

PizzamanIRL · 23-01-2015 07:33PM

I like it because other people seem to like it

One eyed Jack · 23-01-2015 07:41PM

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 · 23-01-2015 07:43PM

I just thought of this ad.

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

zcorpian88 · 23-01-2015 07:57PM

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 · 23-01-2015 08:04PM

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 · 23-01-2015 08:07PM

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

Knex* · 23-01-2015 08:10PM

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

petrolcan · 23-01-2015 08:17PM

I've been on the radio post. Subtle!

PLL · 23-01-2015 08:37PM

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 · 23-01-2015 09:15PM

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 · 23-01-2015 09:17PM

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

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