Voice characteristics / unusual voices + chatting to friends

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Cockney Rebel, no a cockney accent has lots of colour to it, far from monotone. I used to live in London in fact I once lived in Camberwell where one of the main bus depots was for routemasters. Its slightly off topic but it was a very sad day the day they brought in bendy buses, they are much better for wheelchair users and mothers with pushchairs but the routemasters had a charm of their own, they were special! You could get off them any time you liked, did not have to wait for a bus stop. The thing was that many people were injured each year from getting on and off routemasters while they were still moving and various injuries/fatalities occurred. The bus conductors were great too, I loved em, they often broke down but they were so much better than the new service they have now! Why Ken made the decision to extinguish a London treasure we'll never know.

yeah whats in th e water in england?

I find too that my voice is very monotonous and quite quiet. It doesn't help having to wear removeable braces.

On the topic of Cockney Accents, now I know why people don't believe me, when I tell them that I'm on the Spectrum.

On the topic of Routemasters, I was very crushed on December 10th, when I've read in my local paper, that they were taken out of Service, the day before. That was the last day that I've read the entire first section of a Newspaper.

I don't normally like buses - I get lost on them - but the Routemasters were sure as Hell fun to jump off!

I have had this happen. I have also been told by people that I have a "distinctive" voice. People don't instantly recognize the phone voices of the other women I work with but all my clients seem to recognize mine. When my voice is recorded it sounds to me almost exactly like my Mom's or Sister's voice like we have/had the same style of physical sound making equipment but my cadence of speech is different. If I were to try to describe it I'd say I have a woman's voice, soprano, but I speak with a man's cadence and emphasis.

I've had people tell me in the past I've got a 'weird' accent, but I always assumed it was because I moved around so much as a child (my father was in the armed forces) so it's a mishmash of all kinds of accents.

I think the expressions I use and the way I phrase things confuses people even more than my actual accent, because I pick up ways of speaking from the TV far more than I do from people around me.

About the monotone, drone voice...my mom tells me my voice sounds just like the computerized voice "Fred" used by Apple's operating system. I don't know if I should take that as a complement or what.

My boyfriend is American, but people always think he's foreign. He has AS, and I do think that's part of it because he's never lived overseas. He has a very strong accent, though. I thought he was Australian when I met him, and people are always asking him if he's English or Australian.

I've got quite the accent myself, as I grew up in England & the U.S. it's sort of a mish-mosh. Valleygirl/east london combo. I basically sound Californian, but with glottal stops and English slang. It's weird.

I've been told my voice is very monotone. While working in call centers for 4 years, i got called Ma'am alot. I remember one call in particular when i put a caller on hold, i was really just putting her on mute so she couldn't hear me but i could hear her, and heard her make a comment about me that i sounded like a very androgynous person.

Indeed monotone can make you sound androgynous; I've been called a boy before, not only because of my outward appearance, but also because of my voice. I never had one of those "girly" high-pitched voices, thank God.

I speak with an accent as well. I don't think it sounds English, but I suppose it does a bit. Americans always tell me I speak with an accent, but British people say I don't really have an accent (like my accent isn't as thick as other American accents to their ears). It gets thicker when I'm nervous, esp. when I am speaking in front of a group or new people. I don't think my accent has anything to be with my anglophilia (I'm obsessed with Damon Albarn) but people usually know about me being fascinated by English things (i mean, I won't shut up about Damon Albarn) so having the accent makes me seem to them like some sort of a... crazy wannabe-Engish dork. Which is true to an extent but completely wrong.

About the accent itself... I find that I ennunciate every letter, even if that's not really how their pronounced. Butter is buTTer, not budder. Same with little. It's liTTle to me. Like that's how I've decided to pronounce it because that's how it's spelled, and I don't care if everyone else is wrong, I'm going to be right (but I don't think that consciously). It's not monotone either... but it could be described as... clumsy sounding? I get so concerned about what's the correct thing to say and when to say it.

Me, too!! !

It's not "febUary" it's "FebRuary." There's no such thing as a "libary," a "chimley," a "birfday," or a "ruuf."

I speak with a Lancashire accent. It tends to change depending on who I'm speaking with, I find. Occasionally it can be monotone, but generally it is not.

i have the monotonious as-if-depressed expression, and lots of times my dad will think im having an attitude when i offer food or answer a yes/no question.

i wish he would understand about aspergers syndrome and im not having an attitude. i dont realize it sounds "cold" or "aggressive" like i have a bug up my butt end or have something to hide or thinks im on(illegal) drugs because of the flat responce.

for one thing why would i want to fry or kill brain cells on drugs??? i dont see point in getting "high" plus its illegal and can cause big problems.

im surely not an alcoholic i have been drunk once and it wasnt a good feeling since i could barely walk and fine motor is the level of a person with severe cerebral palsey. so i dont see a point in either one of the 2 things some or many people like to do for "fun"