Anyone talk with a monotone voice

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Is there anyone here who has Aspergers and talk with a monotone voice?Since I do talk with a monotone voice.I wonder why is it that I have talked with a monotone voice and still do.

Yes, my voice is monotone, with few inflections. When I get excited, my voice gets loud.

I am not sure, I have never asked anyone how I sound when I talk......but from my perspective I think my voice is a bit on the monotone side a lot, but its kind of hard to hear exactly how your voice sounds to others so I am not entirely sure.

I definitely have a monotone voice. It always strikes me how dead and flat it sounds when I check my voice mail message. Funny thing, it sounds normal to me when I'm speaking.

I also have a difficult time controlling the volume. I think that I'm speaking louder, but people say that I'm still speaking pretty quietly.

Sometimes.

Very much like the real Mick Avory, I speak in monotone and with a Cockney accent. It doesn't bother me. There are more important things to worry about, like earthquakes.

More so when I was younger. I remember reading out loud in about 7th grade and at the end some smart-a** saying, "and that's the way it was." (Walter Cronkite quote). (So, I guess there can be an upside to that, though it might not be appreciated by 12 year-olds.)

In my early 20's I put a lot of effort into trying to normalize that (mostly from TV and listening to comedians), and learned some things. It was exhausting, though, and it still leaves my throat muscles hurting if I have to do it for too long.

As to why -- I don't think anyone knows. I read the other day that there is evidence that the basal ganglia (part of the brain) is involved in prosody. But, the functioning of the basal ganglia is not well understood at this point.

yes i have been told by many people i have a monotone voice. even when im in a happy or excited mood, its monotone.

I don't really know if I normally speak in a monotone. I don't think so, and I know I can have inflection if I want it (having recorded my voice for various reasons). On the other hand, I like to imitate Daria and Seven of Nine at times, which does involve speaking in a monotone. I also don't really put much effort into inflection, so maybe I do.

In my childhood and teens I think I had more of a monotone (in addition to either speaking too quietly or too loudly). I know when I heard recordings of my own voice I did not sound at all what I thought I sounded like.

I always believe that I'm speaking at a normal volume but people always ask me to repeat what I just said. Which drives me crazy. Then I repeat myself in what I think is a louder tone and they still can't understand what I am saying.

My voice is very monotone. Once I recorded myself reading a movie script and tried very hard to use inflections in my tone of voice. But when I listened to the recording, my voice still sounded monotone.

In addition to being monotone, my voice is also very loud. It becomes louder when I am excited or upset.

I am very monotone and have poor control over the loudness of my voice.

Yeah, I'm often told that I'm being too loud. It's one of the few things that makes me feel kinda bad, especially since loud people irritate me.

I think that my issue with voice intonation is complex. I remember hearing monotonous voices as early as classes I belonged read books aloud. I heard the flat voice and knew I wanted to sound nothing like that.

So I intonated and varied and tried really hard to speak smoothly. I thought it was a success.

Then later I noticed people couldn't understand me when I read aloud. It wasn't until just a few months ago that my girlfriend said that I stressed the wrong words, that my rhythm was off.

When I get excited about topics it seems to me at least that my voice is lively and energetic. Perhaps it's not.

Usually.

Yeah, I do. My family always asks me why I sounds "like I'm depressed." But I don't think it gets louder, though I'm not sure.

I have been told so.

I have poor control of loudness. Although I'm not sure, I believe I shifted toward a more monoton voice in my adulthood, but at the same time I worked off stutter and gabble to some degree (but these are obvious today). The way I speak (speed, articulation, stutter, inflection) highly depends on my mood, which I'm usually not fully aware of. So it happens many times that I can not foresee the way I will speak in an emerging situation, causing me a lot of perplexity.

Speaking on a somewhat monoton voice and thus avoiding the more severe conditions provides me a less stressed way of speaking, which ultimately helps me communicate with others. However, I try to color my voice by better inflection and showing more emotion when I feel the need.

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