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Personally I hate mine. I'm a woman (born female), but it's lower than most other women's voices. Because of this I'm told pretty often that I sound like a guy/mistaken for a guy pretending to be a woman online sometimes. ;/

I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. It's just lumped in there with the things that I don't particularly like about myself but have come to terms with because that's just the way things are, you know?

I'm also a woman with a deep voice. I also have a slight lisp.

Low voices are great. You should tell people who say you sound like a guy that it must be hard for them to have so much trouble differentiating gender.

I have a low voice and I use it to my advantage when singing alto. I like the way I sound. However, I will admit to raising my pitch when I need to sweet-talk strangers.

I dunno, my voice has been one of the few things in my life I've been really proud of about myself.

I hope you can love your voice too. I bet it's nice.

I totally do that with strangers too! Glad I'm not the only one. :)

Yeah, I just find people are more responsive and positive when my voice sounds higher. Granted, using that voice does have its downsides if you happen to start to know those people long term because they build an innocent image of you.

Have you ever had that happen to you?

Re: Your voice-Love it or hate it?

30_rock_office - 2013-06-10 01:44 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Your voice-Love it or hate it?

forgottenjester - 2013-06-10 02:00 (UTC) - Expand

Same.

I'm...thankful? For it because my name is also gender-neutral so if I ever get a phone interview, they'll think I'm a man and I'll probably have a better chance of being hired :/

Hate it.

I'm a woman with a deeper voice. Because I was born premature, my vocal chords were damaged. So my voice sounds hoarse and people are always asking me if I have a cold.

I think deep voices are great! I usually speak with a low register and when I get excited I can sound pretty high pitched.

Back in high school, I was one of the few people who could handle public speaking and so became proud of my voice. Yet when I enter college and no longer need to do public speaking on a weekly basis, I feel challenged by fast-paced social discussions with no real point and became ashamed of my voice. I also became paranoid that the slightly nasal tinge in my voice puts people off from really listening to me.

Maybe focusing on the content of what one speaks can help reduce self-consciousness about one's voice. I can't be sure if this is true but I've read that Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest orators in history, actually had a high-pitched voice but it certainly didn't stop him from making important and inspiring speeches.

I don't mind my voice normally, speaking or singing. It's when I hear it recorded that I start to cringe. Do I really sound like that?

It's really weird how you hear yourself differently on a recording.

THIS.

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.

I sound so pitchy and horrible.

I've been told I have a nice voice in person though, and I can even sing okay.

Yeah, I'm completely the same. I like how my voice sounds when I'm hearing it normally, but when it's recorded and played back, I'm suddenly something like two or three octaves higher in pitch.

It also has a lot less... oomph? I don't know what the word properly is, sorry. Just, when did I become a chipmunk.

(Bad instrument metaphor time: recorded-voice is like a piccolo, while the voice I hear on a daily basis is more like an oboe or bassoon.)

Ugh, same here. My voice is fairly bland and inoffensive on its own, but I sound like a damn twelve-year-old in recordings and it's grating as hell. Like, I got a call the other day from this law firm inquiring as to whether or not anyone in my household had suffered side effects from the Yaz birth control pill, and they had one of those setups where you hear everything you say repeated back on this really grainy recording, and I could barely make out what the guy was saying to start with and apparently he couldn't understand me too well either, and also I have a special hatred for talking on the phone as it is, so after he asked me if I was sure I was a lesbian and if I was sure I didn't have a blood clot after taking Yaz (for the sixth time, I swear) I made up an excuse and hung up 'cause DAMN. And then I had a panic attack. It would've been an unbearable experience even without hearing my voice on that recording, but it was so very much worse with it. /tl;dr

I hate mine. A LOT. I can't hear it until it's played back, but it's high and nasally and I feel like people must hate hearing it. I think my recordings sound like Fran if she were a teenager.

I think it's basically fine. It's a little flatter than I'd like and a little nerdier but it doesn't bother me.

I'm female, and I used to hate how high pitched my voice was. As I've gotten older, luckily, my voice has deepened to what I personally would consider to be slightly lower than the average woman's, if my voice teacher is anyone to go by. I didn't like my voice until I learned how to use my naturally lower registry.

I wish my voice was lower. Adult women with high-pitched voices get treated like children.

I don't like mine much for the opposite reason. My voice is pretty high-pitched and makes me sound like I'm twelve (I had a customer at a job once ask me if it was my actual voice).

THIS. I once had someone on the phone ask to talk to an adult. I was like 30 at the time.

I like mine. :) It's neither high nor low pitch, and I'm told I sound really practical in person and really sweet on the phone.

I don't mind it most of the time. I don't really like my laugh though. Like, the kind of laugh that you do when you're slightly nervous and having a conversation, ugh. It sounds both overly girly and somewhat deranged.

I don't know. Usually I have no opinion; it's just my voice, I've heard it every day of my life, nothing to it, but sometimes I'll say something and it will just sound terrible.

Also, I hate how I unconsciously talk in a higher pitch when talking to strangers or people I don't know well at all. I have no idea when or why I started doing that, but I can't seem to stop.

I have the same deal, and I'm usually pretty grateful for it. I "pass" as an adolescent boy most of the time when using chat for multiplayer, and thus don't get anywhere near the kind of shit women who sound overtly feminine do.

OMG this is such a difficult question to even think about, it just makes my head explode, and here is why: We will never actually be able to hear the sound of our own voices. Our voices sound one way in our heads, but people have scienced, and we know that we sound different to ourselves than to others. BUT! Even our best ways of recording sounds compress the sound, meaning that no matter how good technology gets, we will never, ever be able to play our voices back to us and hear them as other people do.

HOW CAN WE LOVE/HATE OUR VOICES? We don't even know what we really sound like?

...This always makes me so emotional, guys. It's one of those "But I'm so small and the universe is so big" concepts for me.

I like mine,I guess.It's not something I think about,except for the times when I try to sing along to a song and sound horrible.

For me, it's complicated by the fact that I'm trans. But yeah, I like my singing voice, but hate my speaking voice. My speaking voice is just... at its best it's a flat, androgynous monotone, and when I slip up it's too high and girly. And if I talk too much, the effort of keeping my voice as low as I can starts to hurt my throat. Also, I have a bit of a weird accent for no apparent reason (i.e. my accent doesn't make sense in relation to the accents people around me spoke when I was growing up).

But when I'm singing, I'm a pretty decent tenor, and in that section it's actually an advantage that I can easily and strongly hit the higher notes that some of the other guys struggle with.

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