@Rose

How do you feel about your voice?

Okay. I've got a question for all of you. Imagine your voice in its own little box, and you can separate it from your body, right? It keeps all the different ticks and mandatory aneurysms, pauses, breasts, whatever. But if it were to separate from your body, what body would you imagine accompanying? For example, I think my voice sounds very juvenile and a little nerdy or scholarly, but not like in a good way

Are you happy with it? What would you change? How and when does it change? #voice #swellworthy #personality #diversity

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@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 1:20
Wow. This is an extremely smart slow. I think that you're going to have a lot of people on here who have a lot of ideas about their own voices and about other people's voices. My voice is being drowned out by my kids currently. I'm sorry. Anyways, I'm hoping outside for a second. I've never actually thought of my voice. I never liked my voice, but I have been told that I have a pleasant voice
@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:32
Thing that I can definitely say that you were talking about, like the pauses, things like that. I can be quite terrible with pausing in the and the likes. It drives me crazy. I've been trying to get away from it where I don't sound like a 16 year old talking about Facebook and their friends. But yeah, that's what see, I just did it and all huge parts of my vocabulary. And I'm trying trying to kind of pull away from those
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@Rose

@MerTroutt

I took a public speaking class in College, actually, and they call those little words verbal ticks. And I am so bad at them as well. So bad. I've heard those guys doing the higher voice thing, too. I'm only speaking through friendships and relationships I've had with guys. They'll have, like, a baby voice. They'll just be like, oh, yeah
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@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 1:59
Yeah, I'm a bit Southern. It's kind of subtle. My husband is real, real bad, real real bad. And it comes out more when I'm angry or, like when I'm really passionate about something or I'll get it onto my kids or something and it will really come out. But, yeah, it's more subtle
@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:11
We've definitely established that I shouldn't be a scientist because I would be testing all these random thoughts in my brain, and that really doesn't provide any substance to the world
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@Rose
And it's really funny. I'm just curious. What do you think of my voice? Also, I have a terrible singing voice, and I don't really like my voice. So that's like a double negative. Both bad. But I haven't heard your singing voice. I like your current, like, normal voice, though
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@Todzilla
Todd Mitchell
@Todzilla · 2:48

I knew this would come up eventually. 😆

If somebody's not treated as well on a delivery or installation or something, we have an issue with a company that's got to get resolved. I can usually get taken seriously on the phone, but in comfortable, relaxed circumstances, it's hard for me to sound relaxed because I'm self conscious about it. But again, tons of practice, tons of recording
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@MerTroutt
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 1:18

@Rose @Todzilla

Rose, I personally think that you hit the nail on the head with your voice about it being nerdy and scholarly, but I don't think that it's a bad thing. I don't think that it's in a bad way or like a teacher's pet whatever. However you are, we're talking about your small stature, and for some reason, I tend to think of smaller people whenever I hear more deep voices. I don't know why
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 1:35
There's Delaware County, which is where I'm originally from. And there's a specific accent. It's a little bit different than the Philadelphia accent you may have seen that done on some different things. Tina Fey did it on Saturday live. The Delta is very close, but a little bit different. And I moved out of Pennsylvania, and when I moved to where I am now, it was like an extreme shock
@Allowistic
Vincent Strader
@Allowistic · 2:08
But I ended up doing over 10,000 recordings on that app and got very used to and very comfortable with my voice. And I've never disliked my voice. My mother was a talker. She loved to talk, and I kind of picked that up as well and enjoyed very much talking with my voice. And so as far as those little pauses and other things, I had that as well used to say and awe and like and all those kinds of things quite a bit
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:27
And because actually of social audio apps such as Swell and Yahoo Voice chat apps where I would argue with people about religion and stuff like that. Yeah, that's a long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away, I have been able to nurture and curate my voice. And also I've done rapping and stuff. So I've heard my voice on and off for the better part of 20 years through an audio device like a speaker. And I had a talk boy
@AnimangaNation
ANIMANGA Nation
@AnimangaNation · 2:37
I think it's what it needed to be when you were growing in the womb, what it came to be. And I think the society itself tries this very hardest to make us feel as if we need to change things about ourselves, even though there's really nothing wrong with us. It's all about if you just change your voice, you'll have more opportunities. And if you change your voice, boys will like you or girls will like you if you change your voice
@AAdenhardt
Alyssa Ardenhardt
@AAdenhardt · 2:44

Voices are intimate and maliable. What do you think my voice implies of me?

We could say start speaking in a different accent or move the muscles in our mouth and our throat so that our resonance changes and we speak at a different register where we could change our tone and change our inflection and start ending things a little bit higher. And all of these things communicate something different, like our voice is an instrument to me. That's the way I see it. And it's hard to say whether someone hates other voice because it's saying something like, do you hate your instrument?
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