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To non-Americans, do you find Americans speak at a deeper pitch than the rest of the world? (Maybe with the exception of Russians.) I ask because when ever I hear a non-American actor trying to do a convincing American accent, they always pitch their voice deeper. Like Hugh Laurie's natural speaking voice is higher than his House voice. Same thing with Christian Bale. His American accents are always done at a deeper pitch. And when American actors do English roles, they always pitch their voice up.

And this goes for both genders. American women speak at a far deeper register than woman from countries like Japan, Korea and China where higher pitch voices are seen as more feminine. (You want to be seen as an aggressive woman in Japan? Do a deep accent.)

What do you think?

I've never noticed any change in tone between Americans and Europeans or Asians. But men can lower their voices to be more masculine/badass, which would fit with Batman, and I guess House is his own kind of badass. Maybe the Americans doing English roles need to sound more sophisticated and thus speak more gently? (In the words of Robin Williams, "You're in England, the land of good manners." Yes, I know it's not true, but it's a stereotype in the US. A black male friend of mine deliberately speaks in a British accent in public, and it relaxes everyone around him. He swears it always works.)

The Asian woman high-pitched voice is a deliberate attempt to sound cute and girly, as it's my understanding that is what's desirable. In the US, for women it seems mature confidence, happiness, and no fear are what ears attention. Usual disclaimers of YMMV and everyone's different and this is my opinion and such and some Western men like baby-doll voices etc etc.

Even though I come from scotland, my basic accent is some sort of american.
I tried speaking in the nearest I could get to the accent I SHOULD have (highland) and then repeated it in my normal accent. It DID sound deeper. (And I could hear the american more than usual, yuck...)

I have always associated deeper tones in old people with american accents. Like... there are tones that just say "American grandparent" to me.

American, but one time I had a voice teacher tell me to stop speaking so low since it was at odds with my natural range.

I never really noticed that, no. Maybe people just get weird pitches when doing a foreign accent?

I definitely notice this in contrast to Japanese/Korean and English.

Personally, my Japanese is usually higher pitched than my English. But my English tends to bounce around in pitch and tone depending on my mood, I can control it but when I'm not thinking it goes all over.

It seems about the same as the UK to me, everyone has varied tone and pitch in their voices.

Huh. I kind of thought Hugh Laurie's regular speaking voice was deeper than his American accent and figured the difference was probably him being extra careful and more conscious about his speech. Kate Winslet playing an American in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind had a noticeably higher (and more nasal) tone than her ordinary speaking voice, too.

I feel the same way about Hugh Laurie (and Damian Lewis).

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