Voice characteristics / unusual voices + chatting to friends

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How many people have a distinct voice?
Occasionally people remark I have a montone voice or cannot hear me, this is usually when there is a lot of background noise and I can't screen it out. Nita Jackson a girl with aspergers wrote a book recently, she does not have her own accent she oscillates from strong Glasweigian, American to Irish. Even though I have a one drone voice myself I find listening to others with squeaky or monotone voices quite irritating. What kind of voice do you have, do people comment on it?

Perhaps you mean "accent"? Some of the callers to the call center I worked at this summer told me either that they couldn't place my accent or that they think I am from the East. In real life, about three or four years ago, people used to comment on my lack of affect, before I tried ways of fixing that. Before my voice changed, I had a kid's voice up, which was not changing, until the 8th grade (adding to my uncoolness).

(BTW, temple grandin considers telemarketing [call center work, although i was offering tech support, where people called us and not the other way around] as good work for autistics/aspies because it is "repeating the same thing over and over" and "telephone sales avoids many social problems" I'd have to agree although it can be "a noisy environment" which I also agree with)

Also, people have said to me that sometimes I sound a bit Austrailian!

I have a Cockney Accent, and the Customer Service Reps in most of the stores that I've been in, had refered to me as, "That Little Cockney, over there." I was on a Ferry once, and I was purchasing myself a cup of my daily Afternoon Tea, at two in the afternoon. The cashier behind the counter told me, "I can tell you're from London." I didn't know what to say. There was one Member at my Clubhouse who told me that I have a wonderful Cockney Accent. Once, when I was buying some Mini Doughnuts at the Mall, there was a rude little girl, who was making comments about the people that she'd noticed. As soon as I've opened my mouth to speak, that girl kept on chanting, "Ellow little Londonah...Ellow little Londonah." I was also ordering an Afternoon Tea at Coffee Shop. The scantley dressed women behind the counter were making comments on my Accent. After a few seconds, one of the girls asked, "Which part of England is that woman from?" The other girl replied, "She's from London, because of that Double Decker Bus on her pouch!" and she said it so loud, that everybody in the place could hear her. I've come to the conclusion that if 9 out of 10 Non-Family Members say that I sound like I'm from London, than I sound like I'm from London. I feel very honoured that I sound a lot like a Londoner, for a Canadian.

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CockneyRebel, that's very strange!

I have an accent. Some say I sound Australian, some think I'm from England, and some might think I'm from somewhere else in the USA.

I just talk like any regular American male. No, I don't talk like a cowboy or a redneck, just because I'm from Texas.

Tim

Hi Smudge

Actually yes I think her book was from a while ago I got that wrong, I would love to beable to pick up accents like that my imitations sound ridiculous.

So glad people replied to the post cos I realised lower down the list there was already a posting about accents, duh!

Is having an accent an AS thing?

I don't mean an accent from where you're from but an accent where you aren't from like I was born here in the USA in Oregon but I am not from Australia or from England or from back east like New York but people mistake me being from somewhere else like from another country.

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I have no way of knowing whether or not it's AS-related

Tim

I have a deep voice for a female....I think it maybe because I find high voices very,very annoying...I am either told I am talking to soft or to loud(calm down)....The only time I have an accent is after talking with my sisters who are from MO and sound more southern then us in MN....ad when I use to do "inturpretive reading"...I would slip into a "proper England" accent...I was told,have no memory myself as I always would dissociate when reading in public...

you know what i do, i call my house and leave myself a message and then when i get home i listen to it, to freak out. its so wierd to hear yourself on an answering machine i think

I don't know what I sound like, because I avoid hearing my recorded voice at all costs, but I probably have a monotone voice. I probably also have a trace of a southern accent on me. Of ocurse I probably have a slight northern accent, too, but I have not noticed it.

dont listen to waterdogs and werbert, they are freakazoids.
drone is a good way to put it, lack of intent is picked up by non aspies in the voices of aspies.
momnotone , drone, lack of intent all good descriptions.

Would a Cockney Accent be described as Monotone, or Drone?

I'm probably a cross between monotone and my essex accent. Seeing how I live in Essex, in the UK.