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[MeekMe]

BiBunny - I remember your voice now! （＾_＾） I vaguely could remember how it sounded, but it's a lot more rich than it was in my head. I like it!

 

[stickygirl]

Hi guys and thanks for the invite Elle x

A couple of points first
- I've never really been in BDSM before so please don't tie me up or use clamps or any of that stuff. I do have a vague yearning for spanking and then there's a thing about nettles, but I don't suppose that qualifies me.
- Secondly… but I don't do 'appearances' of any kind - I know, dead sus, it's a long story, boring.

So, voices. Looking back over this discussion and trying (unsuccessfully grr) to listen to some of the samples, we're talking about the tembre of different languages, which is fascinating. I didn't realise languages tend to be pitched differently. I'm going to be listening extra hard from now on.

My background is that I'm a trans woman and my old voice broke well and truly when I was about 14, to my complete horror. However, I sang in the school choir and hung on to my higher vocal range like grim death, which is really important because the voice is basically muscle-play and if you don't use it…

My music background has been really helpful in learning to speak as a woman, plus I love mimicking voices . When I was young and in bed, I used to listen to adult voices through the floor: muffled of course, but I could hear the 'song' of the speaker - up/down louder/softer slower/faster and I used to play with the noise I heard like a bit of music. Being able to disassociate the meaning of the words from the actually song is the key to how other people will hear you when you 'sing' to them.

It's not so much pitch, as in high or low, but resonance: a man's voice resonates in his chest, which makes the boom, but a woman's doesn't - you can place your hand on their chest to check this out. So a woman can have a low pitch but if it comes from higher up your throat, your chest doesn't resonant and presto, you have a sexy purr.

Then song has words of course - how a woman intonates, places stresses on different words in the sentence, how long the note plays on a word, the rhythm of the speech - all these things add character ( and gender ) to your voice. One way to unscramble what is being said from how it is being said is to muffle conversation somehow so that you don't hear the words - like I used to as a kid. If you reduce the ways people speak to a musical puzzle, it becomes easier to unpick what is going on and then you can try it yourself in the shower. Don't use words - listen to some foreign language and try imitating the sound in lala's or tickitidolala's - whatever it sounds like to you.

Some nationalities and accents tend to push voices towards a gender style. Accents that speak off the back of the throat, like the Bronx accent, or accents that are very monotonal… can't think of a specific one but there are some USA ones. A Scottish accent is very expressive, especially a woman's voice, which happily goes up and down an octave in a blink. As a listener on the phone (when you can't see them ) means you start filling in information about the speaker's personality, mood, education and of course gender, so it's pretty important to how you are perceived. When you're face to face, it's importance recedes but never disappears.

A woman is more empathetic than a man, so we use softer, longer notes that blend together, because those sounds are ones we associate with carers and mothers. A mother with a toddler ( or someone with a dog ) will over emphasise pitch as means of communicating meaning without the words being understood. A woman's words will often have two notes in it, where a man stomps around putting only one note to a word ( like his feet! ).

That's prob waay too much from me. As you can tell, I'm fascinated by sound and how we communicate innately. Don't get me started on hands, because our use of hands is every bit as gendered Now I can run back to the LGBT, nipples unmolested

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[stickygirl]

Btw, I asked on how to board if anyone knows of an app that will work for this

The only app I know is a recorder: listen to your own voice. There are some good voice coaching ytubes though

I mentioned Ytubes and here's a woman who I follow. She mentions mimicking too

 

[BiBunny]

I wish I still had my kiddy accent so you could hear that

No hysterical laughter, promise. But I cannot promise not a giggle and smile.

I had to cut out the heart emotes from your OP because it told me I had too many images in my message. It really shouldn't count the ones that are just being quoted.

I would love to be able to hear your former kiddy accent!

See, I don't mind if you *do* laugh hysterically. Just don't tell me you did, and I'll never know.

Awesome! Thanks for posting.

I'd love to hear you speak other languages if you feel brave enough to post. No laughing, I promise!

Thank you! I actually did make recordings for this in two other languages, but I'm still trying to get up the nerve to post them.

BiBunny - I remember your voice now! （＾_＾） I vaguely could remember how it sounded, but it's a lot more rich than it was in my head. I like it!

Thank you so much! The inhaler I have to take for my asthma when it acts up (which is pretty much any time the temperature drops below 60 degrees) does something weird to my vocal cords if I use it for more than a couple of days in a row. So I don't sound *quite* that way all the time, but listening to it on the recording, I realize it doesn't sound nearly as bad as I think it does when I'm just hearing myself speak out loud.

Hi guys and thanks for the invite Elle x

A couple of points first
- I've never really been in BDSM before so please don't tie me up or use clamps or any of that stuff. I do have a vague yearning for spanking and then there's a thing about nettles, but I don't suppose that qualifies me.
- Secondly… but I don't do 'appearances' of any kind - I know, dead sus, it's a long story, boring.

So, voices. Looking back over this discussion and trying (unsuccessfully grr) to listen to some of the samples, we're talking about the tembre of different languages, which is fascinating. I didn't realise languages tend to be pitched differently. I'm going to be listening extra hard from now on.

My background is that I'm a trans woman and my old voice broke well and truly when I was about 14, to my complete horror. However, I sang in the school choir and hung on to my higher vocal range like grim death, which is really important because the voice is basically muscle-play and if you don't use it…

My music background has been really helpful in learning to speak as a woman, plus I love mimicking voices. When I was young and in bed, I used to listen to adult voices through the floor: muffled of course, but I could hear the 'song' of the speaker - up/down louder/softer slower/faster and I used to play with the noise I heard like a bit of music. Being able to disassociate the meaning of the words from the actually song is the key to how other people will hear you when you 'sing' to them.

It's not so much pitch, as in high or low, but resonance: a man's voice resonates in his chest, which makes the boom, but a woman's doesn't - you can place your hand on their chest to check this out. So a woman can have a low pitch but if it comes from higher up your throat, your chest doesn't resonant and presto, you have a sexy purr.

Then song has words of course - how a woman intonates, places stresses on different words in the sentence, how long the note plays on a word, the rhythm of the speech - all these things add character ( and gender ) to your voice. One way to unscramble what is being said from how it is being said is to muffle conversation somehow so that you don't hear the words - like I used to as a kid. If you reduce the ways people speak to a musical puzzle, it becomes easier to unpick what is going on and then you can try it yourself in the shower. Don't use words - listen to some foreign language and try imitating the sound in lala's or tickitidolala's - whatever it sounds like to you.

Some nationalities and accents tend to push voices towards a gender style. Accents that speak off the back of the throat, like the Bronx accent, or accents that are very monotonal… can't think of a specific one but there are some USA ones. A Scottish accent is very expressive, especially a woman's voice, which happily goes up and down an octave in a blink. As a listener on the phone (when you can't see them ) means you start filling in information about the speaker's personality, mood, education and of course gender, so it's pretty important to how you are perceived. When you're face to face, it's importance recedes but never disappears.

A woman is more empathetic than a man, so we use softer, longer notes that blend together, because those sounds are ones we associate with carers and mothers. A mother with a toddler ( or someone with a dog ) will over emphasise pitch as means of communicating meaning without the words being understood. A woman's words will often have two notes in it, where a man stomps around putting only one note to a word ( like his feet! ).

That's prob waay too much from me. As you can tell, I'm fascinated by sound and how we communicate innately. Don't get me started on hands, because our use of hands is every bit as gendered Now I can run back to the LGBT, nipples unmolested

This info is fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! (Also, I had to cut your smileys, too, for the same reason I had to cut Elle's. I'm so sorry.)

 

[seela]

Interesting conversation, thanks for contributing everybody.

Bunny, do it, do it, do it!!!

If you do it, I'll reconsider posting a few more languages myself, too.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[BiBunny]

Interesting conversation, thanks for contributing everybody.

Bunny, do it, do it, do it!!!

If you do it, I'll reconsider posting a few more languages myself, too.

Ok, I'll post a little later tonight. Mostly because I want to hear some more of yours, too, and if embarrassing myself is the price for that, then it's totally worth it.

Bibunny....I use too many emoticons anyhow. I should try to go somedays without using them as a challenge.

Something else funny about them? I make the face of the smiley I am looking for or using at the time, without realising. G finds this really hilarious.

I DO THAT, TOO!

I guess that's why I wish Lit had more emotes. There is a wide range of facial expressions I make when reading/writing posts, and the current smileys don't even come close to covering them all.

 

[seela]

Now I want to see Elle and Bunny do the frog face and the dancing banana.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Now I want to see Elle and Bunny do the frog face and the dancing banana.

I thought the same thing - big smile and froggy face

 

[BiBunny]

Ok, so I redid these a million times. I may or may not leave them up long. Just...please be nice. I'm aware that my accent, my pronunciation, my grammar, and my painfully slow rate of speech leave a lot to be desired. The only opportunities I ever have to speak these languages are to myself. Languages are not something I grasp naturally; I have to do it by sheer force of will. And I mostly do so to remind myself that even though something can be hard, it doesn't mean I have to quit because I can eventually make progress if I keep banging my head against the wall long enough.

Anyway, Bunny in Spanish and Dutch:


Spanish

I learned Spanish as spoken in the Americas and Mexico especially. So no Castillian lisp, no vosotros, and so on.

Dutch

I've been studying Spanish off and on for many years, and Dutch for only a little more than a year. Even though my Spanish vocabulary is much bigger, Dutch seems more intuitive for me, for some reason. Well, in some ways, anyway.

If I'm completely unintelligible to anybody who speaks either of these languages, then a.) I'm very sorry, b.) I'll let you know what I was trying to say if you wanna know, and c.) please don't tell me how hard you laughed.

FYI, I'm also studying Italian and Russian, but I don't feel comfortable enough with either to even try to make a recording. And, TBH, I know very few Russian words, so it'd be filled with shit like, "This is not my bicycle," or "Where's my coffee?" or the ever-popular "Mom is making borsch." So I will spare us all from that.


Ok, Seela, your turn! And anybody else who wants to. Don't leave me hanging out on a limb here, y'all.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[BiBunny]

Spanish isn't loading for me, I think our connection is slow here this morning.


But Dutch sounds cute, I have no understanding of Dutch ...but you sound really lovely.

Thank you, my dear. You're always so kind.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[seela]

Bunny you're the best!

Your Dutch doesn't sound bad at all, despite what you yourself say.

And your Spanish is leaps and bounds better than mine!

 

[BiBunny]

Bunny you're the best!

Your Dutch doesn't sound bad at all, despite what you yourself say.

And your Spanish is leaps and bounds better than mine!

If it makes you feel any better, I totally wrote out what I was going to say before I made the recordings. Kinda kept them there as a guideline, so I wouldn't be "uh"-ing and "um"-ing everybody to death.

 

[MeekMe]

Loved the recordings, Bunny. （＾_＾） I might join you.

 

[seela]

If it makes you feel any better, I totally wrote out what I was going to say before I made the recordings. Kinda kept them there as a guideline, so I wouldn't be "uh"-ing and "um"-ing everybody to death.

See, that's what I should have done too or at least think of exactly what to say. Now you're stuck with lots of "uh"-ing and "um"-ing and some very, very bad, very slow Spanish. I couldn't even manage more than two sentences. To my defence, it's been close to 6 years since I last spoke Spanish, but I still do manage to write it and understand it pretty well.

This is really scary for some reason, so no stupid comments, please. And yes, I'm more than aware of the mistakes, both in grammar and pronunciation.

Spanish
Polish
German
Swedish
Slovak

 

[stickygirl]

See, that's what I should have done too or at least think of exactly what to say. Now you're stuck with lots of "uh"-ing and "um"-ing and some very, very bad, very slow Spanish. I couldn't even manage more than two sentences. To my defence, it's been close to 6 years since I last spoke Spanish, but I still do manage to write it and understand it pretty well.

This is really scary for some reason, so no stupid comments, please. And yes, I'm more than aware of the mistakes, both in grammar and pronunciation.

Spanish
Polish
German
Swedish
Slovak

Excuse my stupid, but are you learning these for professional reasons or... fun!? Either way, I'm sticking with your group on the European tour

 

[seela]

Excuse my stupid, but are you learning these for professional reasons or... fun!? Either way, I'm sticking with your group on the European tour

Most of the languages I speak I've learned in school; English, German, Swedish and Spanish, although it can be argued that I don't know Spanish and rightfully so. Slovak and Polish I've learned mostly living in those countries.

I also speak Russian at about the same level I speak Spanish at the moment, so not great at all. My Russian is the product of one year in highschool and general interest towards the language.

For fun I like to dabble in a few languages, but I've never put any real effort into learning them properly.

I really, really hope Ahlam joins this new round of foreign languages!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[MeekMe]

This is Gianbattista, ciao a tutti. We haven't played this back yet, I hope it is ok.

Not quite sure how to post this link, here's hoping one of these works, Elle wants to do another one in English.

[URLsnip]

(*^_^*) I have a rare smile. So lively.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]