Do you have an unusual-sounding voice?

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The majority of people who comment on my voice seem to think my voice carries an Australian or American accent. Rarer observations include French [to one person I sounded like Thierry Henry], Russian, German and Welsh.

Incidentally I was born in Australia [Melbourne to be specific] and have lived here all my life, never been abroad at any stage. When the possibility of my having AS hadn't crossed my mind, my brother speculated that the American accent came about as a result of being exposed to more American voices during my years of social isolation.

Well, here's a recording of my voice I made with our microphone.

http://media.putfile.com/the-beach-52

Two days ago a secretary from the hospital called us and she ask for my mom. I told her my mom hadn't arrived yet. Then she told "Are you alone, or there is an adult with you?". I was confused, and I told her "Sorry, but nobody here with me". The secretary didn't have choice and left the message for my mom. Next, she told me "Don't forget tell your mom, it's very important your mom know this, how old are you?", "I'm 20" I responded. She told me "Oh, I thought you were a girl, your voice sounds like a kid's voice, I'm sorry".

But my sister said once my voice sounds like an older person's voice.

I really can't stand hearing my voice I had a typical aspie voice when I was a kid but now it's gone I speak very clearly some people say I have a booming loud voice I tend to keep it down espeically in social events. But the thing is i've got a cockney accent which I cannot stand at all

I don't know how to discribe it but there is someone who lives downstairs from me who is AS and he talks exactly how I used to talk when was his age he is about 11 years old

Yes i have a little girl voice. I talk very softly with a lisp. When i say really it sounds like weally. I have trouble with volume control. People say they can't hear me but then i speak more loudly and they complain i'm yelling at them

The volume and pitch of mine goes up and down all the time...

My voice seems to be a pretty normal baritone, but:

a) it covers a pretty wide range, almost 3 octaves. (Choir directors think I'm neat. )
b) I tend to lapse into odd accents on short notice. (My wife thinks I'm neat, because she likes being read to at night and I can do all the characters in books with different voices.)

Anyone else find that they do different accents well?

Yeah I'm good at accents.

And I tend to accidentally mimic people I'm around, which is embarrassing sometimes.

I can do different accents when I hear alot of U2 I tend to talk for a while with an Irish accent and I know or knew someone from the North West of England and when I hanged around with that person I tend to start having a slight Liverpool accent even though I have a cockney London accent

I can have a metallic voice at times (Al Gore voice). But then I can speak eloquently.

my voice is high pitched and i talk very quickly most of the time.
i think it sounds cool.