recognize voices on phone

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I find hard to recognize the ppl's voices on phone in my workplace :S

some people on phone usually are shocked when i ask them who's talking ....because we usually talk daily on phone .

Anyone like this ? :S

yup thats me, must have call id!! if no call id i find myself asking, unless its a loud voice saying hi jess, its my aunt, if an old lady type voice, its most likely my grandmother, all others i have to ask, there was only 1 or 2 phones that i remember that the voices are sooo crisp that it was like as if they are in same room talking to you. now that i see a call id popup on tv at 2nd ring, i know who it is before i pick it up,

I am good at reconising voices, its faces i have trouble reconising.

I hate it when people don't identify themselves when on the phone. Clearly I can't see them, so why would they expect me to know who it is. My Mom and my sisters are guilty of this too... and they sound exactly alike.

Omg, yes! This is one reason I just quit answering the phone.

"Hi, it's me."

Ooookay... and then there's a long pause until I finally say, "Who is this exactly?" Which is terribly awkward. Sometimes I've had conversations with people, honestly not knowing who they were, hoping I could catch from the context of the conversation who they were.

And of course there's the reverse: because I can't recognize people's voices, I assume they can't recognize mine. So when I call someone and introduce myself very carefully with my name, there's this annoyed pause until they say, "Well I KNEW who you were!" as though I were being ridiculous to point it out!

I'm not a big fan of talking on the phone for this reason. But I have low-sensory problems too (don't ask me what that is because I have no idea...) I usually pick out one distinguished feature that that person has and recognize them from that, nd a lot of the time it's their voice, and sometimes their hair. I try and memorize the tone and the volume and just the way they talk when they say "hello" because that's usually the first thing you say on a phone, and it does help me to immediately know who I'm talking to.

This is in the wrong forum.

I don't have a problem recognizing voices thanks to caller ID.

could have to do with background noise...

but yeah... i've completely mixed people up on the phone and had some awkward conversations with people whom i thought were someone else ><

Caller I'D! Yeaaaaaaa!

I started a thread a while back titled "Hi, it's Me" because this seems to be the default greeting that people say either driectly, or to your voice mail. Who is "ME" It's just one of those things like saying "Hot water heater" or "ATM machine" I still don't know who you are even after you've said this! Cell phones have particularly bad audio They frequently drop syllables, and have such limited frequency response. Most of the sound that goes into a cell phone doesn't make it to the other end, so likewise it's hard to simply follow the conversation, even more challenging to figure out who is speaking!