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Nerd_doe · 3421 days ago · link · · parent · post: Open Letter to Terry Gross regarding NPR's segment on "sounding gay"
I have to say I don't think there is a natural voice, in that while your physical make up may limit your possibilities, your voice has been influenced by your childhood, the languages you speak, the particular variants of those languages you use, and your age and background. How could you disentangle all of those factors to find a natural voice? And which factors if any are the 'natural' ones?
graphictruth · 3411 days ago · link ·
The ones that you can't easily change, I'd say... the ones that you can't change without being someone else entirely, with or without the aid of surgery. But to argue against myself, I think the most useful definition is "the voice that seems most expressive of who you naturally feel you are." A profoundly banal insight, that is.