Does anyone ever comment on your VOICE?

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Do you speak loudly, softly, distinctively? What's your style?

No one has ever commented on my voice.

Tim

A couple people said it was soft. (I tend to not speak very loud.)
1 said it was singsong.
2 or 3 said it was young.
Others said it was booming or loud.(It turns out it's an autistic symptom)
Some just said it was nice.

Luckily, nobody said it was bad, grating, etc....

Yeah. People have said I have a "weird accent". I assume it's prosody, but I don't know since I've never met anybody who would know what prosody sounds like. I'd like to listen to a sample on the web, but haven't come across a site with one. I've also heard a lot of complaints that I speak too softly.

KaliMa

I've had real problems controlling the volume of my voice. Friends and family were constantly embarrassed when I spoke much too loudly in restaurants, libraries, movie theaters, etc. I think I'm doing OK with this now, but until I was 21 or so, I just didn't have the ability to gauge how loud my voice was.

I was also told that my voice was shrill in high school, and new people at school often thought I was from another state because I spoke with a strange accent. Most people now tell me that my voice and accent are normal, but then again, most people I talk to now either have known me for many years or don't have English as a first language!

Ask Graelwyn about mine

I can definitely say that people have commented on my booming voice! I was always the narrator in any school play, partly because I was the best reader but also because my voice would reach the back of the hall and so probably helped tie the plot together for the weary parents in attendance, not to mention keep them awake. Later on my friends would be embarrassed in my company if I went on a rant and I suppose this got worse with puberty and the fact my voice became very resonant indeed.

In everyday conversation, however, I still mumble occasionally, particularly during any NT small-talk assaults or when I'm particularly worn down. As for other noted aspie traits, I wouldn't say my voice was monotonous but that has been said on occasion. Conversely I've also had the 'sing-song' comments too. I've read quite a few times that aspie males often have feminine voices; whilst mine is certainly recognisably male there's definitely the odd inflection there that doesn't sit with the masculine norm. Luckily most people are positive about it, but try asking one of my friends when I'm in the middle of a contentious rant in a pub and I'm sure there are one or two things they'd love to change!

I speak way too quietly, or oddly the occasional way too loudly.

I tend to mumble, so people have to say 'what?' a lot. I really hate having to repeat myself.

ditto. I also have a very child-like voice. When I first started dating my bf, I talked to his grandfather once on the phone, and with his mother once (before they met me). They both said I sounded like a little kid, lol.

My voice has been described as soft, too quiet, or sometimes "dry." It's also drawn a few unfortunate comparisons to Napoleon Dynamite

I can't judge my voice's volume too well. I was told many times I spoke too soft ( once my teacher told me I speak loud what suprised me). My native language is Polish and when I speak, I pronounce Polish nasal vowels very audibly and clearly what sounds artifically but I don't know how to do it differently. I've rather monotonous tone of voice. I speak too slowly because I think in pictures and I need some time to translate my internal language of pictures and movies in my head into human speech. Sometimes I speak too quickly.

I'm pretty loud, I'm told. I don't try to be, but it just happens.

Im relatively soft spoken.

I have been told that I have a loud voice. One colleague at work used to call me Boomer. It didn't even occur to me to think why he gave me this nickname. I used to be a teacher, and I think a loud voice helped with discipline, particularly with my poor non-verbal language skills. Often I'm not even aware that my voice is getting louder until someone tells me to speak softer. It can be embarrassing in an open-plan office.

I am mostly loud but never realise until someone says 'will you keep your voice down!'. Apparently I also speak very very quickly.