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Would you consider voice acting if someone says your voice sounds generic? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Generic voices are a necessity too. They provide contrast to good voices and are great at adding without taking away from a point or scene. I.E. generic guy says "commander we have a problem" Commander then gets to say his cool line with awesome tone. Or generic background talk that you don't want people to focus on. Like people chatting in a restaurant you want to be homogeneous so that Morgan Freeman's voice is what you focus on.

Plenty of good reasons to want basic voice actors, though most anyone can also fill that roll, so probably hard to be a professional generic voice lol

[–] waz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've been told a lot that I have a great voice and that I should be in the radio many times as an adult. I've never actually considered it because I hate hearing the sound of my own voice, and I assume people are just being nice.

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The “I hate the sound of my voice” refrain is the most annoying shit I hear and honestly think most people who vocalize that thought are just acting out their own internalized script of how to not appear self-centered (while actually being incredibly self-centered). Your voice sounds the exact same to everyone else coming out of your fish-hole as it does coming out a speaker.

Edit: I’m not saying that your perceived own voice doesn’t sound different to you when speaking versus when played back initially but after years of doing recorded voice work I can say—you get used to it pretty quickly and the differences kinda blend away into a wash of “that is how I sound.” That is why I find that common refrain to be annoying.

Anyway, no one listening to a recording of you thinks “oh they sound weird.”

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No, some of us really hate the sound of our voices, and yes the voice sounds the same to others as in speakers, but not the same I hear it when I'm talking, the reason is that when you're talking you hear the vibration in your skull, so hearing your voice as it sounds to others is strange, and some of us dislike that compared to how we hear ourselves and don't understand how people can tolerate us talking.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

But it doesn't sound the same to the speaker. The speakers skull vibrates with the speech and makes the pitch lower and richer in their ears.

If you are not used to your voice being played from a speaker it always sounds more chipmunk then you are used to.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not? You'd make a perfect extra

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's the spirit! Now where to begin? 🤔