Love or Hate the sound of your Voice?

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Teachers had me read aloud from the textbooks in my classes because I was an excellent reader. But I hated doing it alot at first and became use to it over time.

I have never had anyone tell me that I had a bad voice either. But I have had many people tell me I have a beautiful voice.

My voice professor told me, I have what it takes to be a world class opera singer. It's one of the few things I am fortunate to have in this life, a nice voice and beautiful feet. I was a voice major in university. But I don't care to be up on a stage in front of a crowd.

I love my voice and I love to sing.

I loved to read aloud in class … I liked trying to fit the words together to sound coherent and in the correct tone of voice for what was being read. I would read ahead while my voice was active to try to guess the structure of the sentence and what would come next.

It was funny … in public speaking assignments in class I tended to get better grades when I read from a sheet of paper word-for-word instead of reading from notes, when I would stop and try to figure out what I was referencing. I even got extra credit once for "memorizing" Shakespeare when I was reading from the script the whole time.

^ cool I was worried I might have insulted you.

I really don't like the way I sound, and this is something I feel quite self-conscious about. Until a couple of years ago I would never record my voice at all because I really didn't think I could survive the embarrassment and the emotional pain of hearing myself as others hear me. When I saw a CBT therapist just over 2 years ago, this subject came up quite by chance and she said she hadn't realised how 'phobic' I was about this. She encouraged me to try recording myself, at first in the privacy of my bedroom. I did, and I was dismayed to hear what I sound like to other people. My recorded voice sounds very different to how I hear myself when I am speaking. It wasn't how I imagined I might sound, but I hadn't realised how slowly I talk. I really thought I sounded as if I have some kind of brain injury. This probably made me feel even more self-conscious about talking and about how I sound. If we feel really self-conscious as I do, this affects how our voice sounds and it can affect our ability to speak at all sometimes. I'm sure I sound different in situations where I am more relaxed.
What I did find though, was that although listening to a recording of my voice was not very pleasant, I could survive the experience after all and it isn't something I need to really fear.

Hearing my voice recorded is strange; I'm used to hearing it out of my head.

Recorded it sounds horrible. Then again I've only used the recorder on a phone. It sounds alright out loud. I don't really like it.

I don't like my voice, when I listen to tapes or watch videos my voice sounds stupid, I talk too fast, and I just sound like a div. And what's worse my voice now sounds a bit like my mum's.

it makes me cringe to hear my voice recorded. i sound so monotone and awkward. and its too quiet

I dislike my voice. I am always mistaken for a male on the phone, I've been told its monotone. I got graded down in speech class once on a presentation because I was not "enthusiastic" enough and sounded to boring about what I was presenting. I didnt think I was doing anything wrong.

some people enjoy my voice because it puts them to sleep... I dont know if thats something to be proud of or not... but I hate hearing myself talk other than in my own head

Whenever I record my voice, it sounds like I am a child. I also talk in a type of awkward, nerdy, and shy tone. My parents think it is cute while I get annoyed.

I am usually indifferent to it, but now that it sounds so young and nerdy I do not know what to think of it.

I hate my voice purely because it's a weird combination of Irish (my dad's Irish) , Scottish and to some degree, American. I'm from Glasgow but my accent is this terrible, terrible mutation of other accents. Not that I dislike irish or american accents. It's just that people don't think I'm scottish because of it. I've been accused of lying about my nationality and people think I'm Canadian, American, Irish, English (I have no clue why), Australian (?????), South African (??????) etc... Again, nothing wrong with those accents and those cultures, but I like the scottish accent and it makes me feel like a total fake that I don't have a proper one (Like how Ewan McGregor's accent has disappeared). I don't speak Glasweigan slang, which is why people also do this other thing that annoys me; they say that I have a lovely voice and that I speak very well. Speaking americanised language as opposed to scottish slang is NOT "nicer"; it's just a different way of speaking.

I suppose the positive thing about the way I speak is the fact that people from other countries are able to understand me. Oh well - my accent isn't terrible. I'm just sick of people asking "Where are you from?" or "How long are you staying?" or "Welcome to Scotland", etc. UGGGGHHHHHH! Believe me, when you hear it hundreds of times as I have, it gets annoying.

Oh, I also have a monotonic voice (or overly expressive. I find moderation for these things difficult). I also find it difficult to tell if I am speaking too loudly. My tutor said to me that I either talk to little or too much and he wasn't sure if that was an asperger thing. I suspect it is. I also struggle to sort of improvise speech. I have tot think about it for some time if I want to speak as eloquently as I do if I'm writing an essay (or even just a messege online). People think I sound intelligent, but I think I sound like an idiot.

Speaking voice or singing voice?

Technically, I don't really mind the sound of either one, but I hate listening to myself blabber on without a script of some sort...forgive the term, but I sound like I'm ret*d =/

I hate my voice so much. My mom says I used to sound like a robot from a bad fifties B movie as a kid and I was loud as well. I hate my voice as an adult and wish my parents would have let me sound like a robot. I hate my voice with a passion. If my fursona was ever in her own cartoon, I would not do her voice myself, I'd have Nancy Cartwright do it.

My voice is pretty unusual and I like it. The only problem with it is... people. They sometimes laugh at my voice or say something like omg, what a pitch!
I like to sound "normal" in social situations and show my voice abilities when I want to. But I don't have full control.