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07 Aug 2011, 4:21 pm

Is there a detectable "autistic tone of voice" that male aspies tend to have? If so, would it be possible to detect whether I probably DON'T have autism from a voice sample (such as reading an emotional passage with feeling or something.)?



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07 Aug 2011, 4:33 pm

I do not think I have a particularly monotonous voice. In other male Aspies I know, I have not really noticed the same. There's not much inflection, but some is there. The voices are definitely completely different as well.


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07 Aug 2011, 4:34 pm

I am unsure if there is a stereotypical "autistic" voice but I have read that most Aspies have a difficult time getting their voice to intonate. I speak with a very soft spoken voice and I don't usually change the tone of my voice unless I'm acting.



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07 Aug 2011, 4:39 pm

mmm I think there is. Some people with practice can veer away from it, but I think its there.

Have you ever recorded yourself on tape talking normally and then listened to it back hearing how flat it was?

Regular people just sound different. Maybe there isn't 1 voice tone that everybody has with AS, but I really think there are similarities.



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07 Aug 2011, 4:43 pm

lightening020 wrote:
mmm I think there is. Some people with practice can veer away from it, but I think its there.

Have you ever recorded yourself on tape talking normally and then listened to it back hearing how flat it was?

Regular people just sound different. Maybe there isn't 1 voice tone that everybody has with AS, but I really think there are similarities.


I try to intonate my voice when I speak, but when I listen to myself the intonation is hardly noticeable. I also speak rather slowly, to the point where I sound like an idiot.


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07 Aug 2011, 4:49 pm

Is anyone brave enough to upload a voice sample of them reading this passage?

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Molly crept out the door onto the front porch. Early morning. A fresh new day. Their old farmhouse sat comfortably on an acre of grass and gardens, surrounded by trees. Distant traffic sounds filtered through trees: muted background music. Molly sat on the steps and took a deep contented breath. Dawn's ragged swirls of mist lingered among the maple and fir trees. Two robins pecked in the grass looking for worms. Mom's bed of daffodils glowed yellow in the morning light. Molly hugged herself, while a nippy breeze poked through her thin cotton nightie. And then she saw them. They stepped out of the mist-laden gloom between the trees, one dainty step after the other, across the grass in front of her. There were three of them: a deer and her two young fawns. Molly held her breath. Awesome!


I'll do it, but I need to figure out how to upload it. Somehow, I'm guessing youtube will be involved.



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07 Aug 2011, 5:05 pm

My husband does not have a monotonous tone of voice. My kids therapist says her voice was monotonous when she started treating her. I never noticed it. I always liked the way my daughter talks. She has the sweetest tone of voice, speaks like singing, snd uses the most sofisticated words. I knew she talked differently because everybody said so, but I never found it monotonous. I did notice she used a lot of phrases from TV and movies, tough.



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07 Aug 2011, 5:14 pm

Ilka wrote:
My husband does not have a monotonous tone of voice. My kids therapist says her voice was monotonous when she started treating her. I never noticed it. I always liked the way my daughter talks. She has the sweetest tone of voice, speaks like singing, snd uses the most sofisticated words. I knew she talked differently because everybody said so, but I never found it monotonous. I did notice she used a lot of phrases from TV and movies, tough.


Okay, is there a distinct "autistic tone" that's not strictly monotonous? Such as... possibly, "flatter" or "less varied" or "less tonal" as described earlier? Or... higher pitched or "more annoying" possibly? Geekier, mayhaps? :lol:

Also, females tend to be less impacted in the nonverbal domain by aspergers and I'm male, so I'm specifically asking about males.

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07 Aug 2011, 5:30 pm

As in no tone of voice?



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07 Aug 2011, 5:33 pm

swbluto wrote:
Ilka wrote:
My husband does not have a monotonous tone of voice. My kids therapist says her voice was monotonous when she started treating her. I never noticed it. I always liked the way my daughter talks. She has the sweetest tone of voice, speaks like singing, snd uses the most sofisticated words. I knew she talked differently because everybody said so, but I never found it monotonous. I did notice she used a lot of phrases from TV and movies, tough.


Okay, is there a distinct "autistic tone" that's not strictly monotonous? Such as... possibly, "flatter" or "less varied" or "less tonal" as described earlier? Or... higher pitched or "more annoying" possibly? Geekier, mayhaps? :lol:

Also, females tend to be less impacted in the nonverbal domain by aspergers and I'm male, so I'm specifically asking about males.

*random rant*

O

M

G

... my youtube vid is taking FOREVER to process. *impatiently taps foot*


I think there can be different varieties. Some people sound really geeky and high-pitched, like Alex. I think my voice is more monotonous but with a coarse choppy whisper to it. I do try intonate my voice, but I don't think it makes as much of a difference as I think it does.

I remember back in high school, for a spanish project I had to make a video where I was little kid. Speaking in spanish, I expended alot of energy tweaking my voice as I was speaking to sound high pitched like a kid. I really twisted my vocal cords, I tried really hard, spoke at the top of my lungs near my neck instead of lower, and it sounded different to me.

When we watched the video in class, I remember the teacher and a few students agreed, criticizing me for sounding the same as I always did. Why couldn't he do a different voice?



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07 Aug 2011, 5:47 pm

Is this voice either distinctively autistic or neurotypical?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVGN_CBe1_k[/youtube]

[I have a perfectly intonated, mellifluous female voice in my mind when reading the passage, but I sound nothing like that. :lol: ]



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07 Aug 2011, 5:54 pm

I wish I had a microphone. The voice in the video above has much more inflection than mine.



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07 Aug 2011, 5:57 pm

I speak with a deep South London drone. I've posted a video of a famous person with the same speech patterns. I don't wish to do it a 4th time.


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07 Aug 2011, 6:29 pm

My husband has a distinct kind of accent that makes him just sound different. Kind of monotone but kind of like weird inflections. He also has a very different walk, or gait.


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07 Aug 2011, 6:34 pm

swbluto wrote:
Is anyone brave enough to upload a voice sample of them reading this passage?

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Molly crept out the door onto the front porch. Early morning. A fresh new day. Their old farmhouse sat comfortably on an acre of grass and gardens, surrounded by trees. Distant traffic sounds filtered through trees: muted background music. Molly sat on the steps and took a deep contented breath. Dawn's ragged swirls of mist lingered among the maple and fir trees. Two robins pecked in the grass looking for worms. Mom's bed of daffodils glowed yellow in the morning light. Molly hugged herself, while a nippy breeze poked through her thin cotton nightie. And then she saw them. They stepped out of the mist-laden gloom between the trees, one dainty step after the other, across the grass in front of her. There were three of them: a deer and her two young fawns. Molly held her breath. Awesome!


I'll do it, but I need to figure out how to upload it. Somehow, I'm guessing youtube will be involved.


Try Audioboo



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07 Aug 2011, 7:04 pm

A few aspergers people I know speak in a somewhat forceful, loud tone. A little like yelling. Like Will Ferrell's SNL character who couldn't modulate his voice. Sometimes the speaking continues at length and goes in circles.

That perception might be my autism at work, but I rarely do that. I speak quietly and with quite a bit of irregular rhythm--that is, when I do speak. My brain is chugging through all the processing and there isn't time for fancy tones.

The audio clip above does seem more like my reading: I can force that "story" intonation when reading, but I cannot get the smooth flowing tones of a professional story teller (as you hear on audio books). And, in conversation, I only have intonation when I intentionally force it--and that takes a good bit of energy to keep going. Otherwise, my face and voice are flat. I think that is normal for autism.