on voice

[burntcopper]

or rather, for those who in know me in RL, what is my accent/voice like again? I know it's deep-ish and I talk quite fast, and is generally some variation of middle-class estuary, but...er...

I remember a couple of comments from ciderpress' tests, where my voice got faster and faster and words were like one entire glottal stop the more I repeated, with some very odd bits of the old Reading accent (it's a bit like an oo-ar country bumpkin Somerset, you only tend to hear traces properly when people get drunk/tired/say the 'local people descriptor' - ours is 'Reading born and Reading bred, strong in arm and thick in head') coming through.

Comments

[dario006.livejournal.com]

Well spoken and lady like. I wouldn’t of described it as deep. Fair, mid tone, middle-class, and used to great effect :)

When you get excited you do talker faster and more energetically than anyone I've ever seen, but it's a very endearing quality x

[akadougal.livejournal.com]

You're very English. Like if there was a stereotypical English voice, you'd be it. With more squee.

[lemming-man.livejournal.com]

Not particularly fast. Well enunciated throughout. Even when drunk. Though ears doing the listening, and the brain doing the remembering, were also inebriated.

Not sure if I was filtering the more Thames Valley-girlisms from you. My ears are attuned to the local dialect and tend to be more forgiving in a 'not hearing the wood for the trees' way. I was stunned when I had it pointed out that my h's are missing presumed stolen (as in 'e's run off with my consonant!).

Not far from received standard at all.

Are you thinking of reading the news?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

nah, just curious. My h's don't get stolen. My t's, on the other hand, abscond whenever they get the chance.

[ssirienna.livejournal.com]

I'd agree with well spoken (as per above comments).
There is a very soft burr in places but it's VERY soft and rather pleasant. You do speed up when excited - but I think that's a female trait :-)