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29 Mar 2010, 8:28 pm

Mods: Ehh, I decided this topic should be in this forum... you can delete the Member's Only edition.

First of all, I don't want any comments on this on Youtube, I want them here because my blog links to my youtube and I don't want people who read my blog to hear about the possible aspie thing.

Anyway, I'm a little confused about what a monotone voice is. I think my voice might be in that category, at least I think I sound a bit "strange". I just wanted opinions on it. If it's not monotone, what is the "strange" then? I'm very self-conscious about the way I sound.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs07sUSjgYU[/youtube]


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29 Mar 2010, 8:43 pm

1. Sonic rules!
2. Can I have that toy?
3. No, you don't have a monotone. It does go up and down a lot though, but you sound fine.
My problem is I pick up accents so I don't even know what I originally sound like anymore.

Monotone, is kind of like a low, pitch less non-emotive speaking style. I had a science teacher like that.


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29 Mar 2010, 8:48 pm

I don't think you sound monotone. You have a fair amount of inflection in your voice.



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29 Mar 2010, 8:58 pm

Your voice is awesome! :D and I want that sonic toy... :)
No, its not monotone.


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29 Mar 2010, 9:01 pm

No, it doesn't sound monotone to me. The pacing is a little unusual, or the rhythm, I guess. But I have noticed it in other people's Youtube videos also- there is something about videotaping themselves that seems to make some people use this unusual rhythm. Can you tape a conversation of yourself talking to someone else?


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29 Mar 2010, 9:04 pm

You don't sound monotone, to me.


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29 Mar 2010, 9:10 pm

On video I have an english accent, which is odd because I don't always speak like that.


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29 Mar 2010, 9:15 pm

I tend to slip into monotone if I'm on a monologue. I'll be talking and all of the sudden hear myself being toneless.



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29 Mar 2010, 9:47 pm

Your voice has a similar quality to my son's. Also my grandmother. My son is diagnosed AS (and other stuff), and I'm sure my grandmother would have been too, if she had been born at a later generation.

I'm no expert, by any means, but I spent some time trying to teach myself singing, and read a lot of advice on an online forum where they talk about vocal techniques. People on that forum sometimes post recordings of themselves singing, so the experts can give them advice.

And from what I can tell, the "strange" quality of your voice comes from tension in the larynx (voice box), as if it's being forced up high. I don't mean that your voice is high pitched (you have a lot of variation), but that the set of muscles which control the voice are held high in your throat. At least that's what it sounds like to me, but again, I'm no expert. (I wonder if someone like Willard would know, having been a professional radio guy.)

It's not a bad thing or "wrong", but it does give your voice a certain unique quality.



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30 Mar 2010, 2:53 am

a bit singsong but that is much better than my own quasi-robotic voice. i didn't really hear any unusual prosody either [other than some mumbling], so i must conclude that you have a nice, normally friendly voice which wouldn't draw attention to any aspie-concerns, as car as i could tell from the youtube. now if it were ME talking in there, i would be hemming and hawing, stammering and mumbling plus some occasional stuttering, so i would say you did a smashing job. give yourself a hand.



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30 Mar 2010, 3:42 am

I agree with others, your voice doesn't sound monotone on this video. I guess voice sounds different on different occasions, so in some cases you may think it sounded monotone.


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03 Apr 2010, 7:27 pm

I think this is interesting. It's not really monotone, but it is just a tiny bit "atypical." (it comes of just as your style, not necessarily a mental issue or anything)

It's fine as is, but if you're eager to perfect it, I do have some comments on it. The inflection (to me) seemed arbitrary, not based on any particular system. When nerotypicals speak, they're inflecting their voice using a set pattern (a pattern that we don't pick up on as quickly as neurotyps do I take it). Maybe you'd enjoying doing a little research on intonation and applied it to your conversations (just go on youtube, and write down the scripts, and then note pauses, pitch change, and emphasis.

Comments:
"Hello, (pause at all commas btw, as if your waiting for someone to turn and look at you, or wave back)
I'm here to talk about:
-sonic four ep 1 (intonation goes upwards to indicate that this is not the only thing you'll be talking about, ie, there are multiple things in the list... say it as though your asking a question)
(small pause) AND (Big emphasis then a short pause)
-what I think about it so far. (the inflection ends on a resolving note here, to indicate that this is the last item of the list.)

I think that if you actively study it, you will get it figured out just fine. BTW, sometimes when I'm talking... I feel so superficial about how I'm using my voice that I don't even want to continue, but I just grin and act like I'm having a grand, old time with it (and usually I am) and everybody digs it. Sometimes I even do an impression of a British professor for parts of my conversations.

It might help to script things out and practice them at first, and then once you start getting it, slip cool pauses and inflections into your linguistics naturally.

Oh, also, btw, when you said "definately looks like something I would have a lot of fun playing." that was pretty much spot on correctly inflected, as were other parts. at 0:45-1:00 things are a little too quiet and low in pitch (when you go too low in pitch, inflection becomes impossible so you need to reset your pitch to a higher note). You'll know when this is happening when talking becomes less comfortable.

Hope this helps.