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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2020 22:04:57 GMT
I haven't really thought about Anyporter's voices. Nor had I until I read the sentence above, which Questa wrote in Mark's "A Bit of My Life" thread. What better time, now that we're all sitting around our homes to share how we sound with our fellows self-isolating in the Port. How to do that? I used this online tool called Vocaroo, which is free and requires no signing up -- just talk and go. Instructions here: girlsinthegigcity.com/2016/08/29/how-to-use-vocaroo-to-create-audio-recordings/or watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaaBo6ncsXk <-- copy & paste in your browserIt's even easier than it sounds in the instructions. The main thing to remember is that as soon as you give it permission to use your microphone it will start recording. The recording below is my first & only attempt to use the platform and, my stumbling over words aside, the only problem is that I didn't start talking (actually, reading) until around :03. Be sure to remember to copy the created link so you can share your dulcet tones here. So, here is Bixa's nasal voice for your edification. The book is Night of Sorrows, by Frances Sherwood. voca.ro/lBgsgLabs4XEdited to say that you don't have to record yourself in English. If your primary language is something else, perhaps that gives a better idea of how you sound.
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Post by questa on Apr 7, 2020 1:05:13 GMT
Mighty powerful stuff you got there, Lady. I don't quite understand the written instructions so will wait til the more literate can explain them for me. It is a great idea for the duration.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 7, 2020 4:24:23 GMT
Just watch the video, Questa. You'll get good at this immediately. Just think, we could talk back & forth instead of typing our comments.
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Post by questa on Apr 7, 2020 6:42:02 GMT
Are there any limits as to time allowed or does it just record on to infinity
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 7, 2020 8:48:47 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 7, 2020 8:57:01 GMT
Questa - click on this link - vocaroo.com/Click on the red microphone symbol. You may well be asked first time for permission for the website to access your microphone. Then speak o great one. The microphone is live straight away. Stop the recording by clicking the big square button. Click on Save and Share. You'll see options come up. Copy and paste the link on here. (You can download it to your computer as well, there are buttons for that.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 7, 2020 12:25:07 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 7, 2020 13:25:00 GMT
You could make a fortune with a voice like that.
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Post by htmb on Apr 7, 2020 13:28:56 GMT
Wow, Patrick! That’s wonderful. I had no idea you were a professional!
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Post by questa on Apr 7, 2020 13:41:43 GMT
Beautiful, Patrick, melodious without being singsong, precise without being pompous. Now I am curious...have you been an actor, is that regional or product of home, school, occupation etc.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 7, 2020 15:23:39 GMT
Beautiful, Patrick, melodious without being singsong, precise without being pompous. Now I am curious...have you been an actor, is that regional or product of home, school, occupation etc. Never been an actor, apart from at school a little bit. Home and school, I suppose. There's a sort of "family voice" in my mother's family, which might go back to my Victorian governess of a great-grandmother. And in my primary school, they got us to do "choral recitation": imagine 30-odd 9 year olds declaiming TS Eliot's Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2020 20:06:32 GMT
I am so embarrassed! I came back to this mostly ignored thread for a different reason and am only now realizing that Mark recorded his voice so we can hear how he sounds in normal, casual circumstances. That is obviously what I should have done instead of reading, something I will rectify when I come back again to nag everyone to use this thread. I'm genuinely curious!
Anyway ~ thanks, Mark for showing the way and thanks to Patrick for that beautiful rendition. Somewhere -- I'm drawing a complete blank as to where -- Patrick generously shared some of his recordings with us. Patrick?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2020 20:44:22 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 1, 2020 20:58:11 GMT
Patrick generously shared some of his recordings with us. Patrick? Is it the link in his sig line?
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 1, 2020 21:12:10 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2020 21:14:04 GMT
Duh. Yes. In my defense, he did expound on that somewhere in the past. Anyway. I don't want anyone listening to Patrick's voice, which is beautiful and well modulated and likely to intimidate others from squawking into the mike.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2020 21:16:37 GMT
Ohmygawd ~ Mark has an accent! (I don't, of course.)
That is a great idea you have there, Mark, but I hope those ladies will treat us to their dulcet regular tones as well.
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Post by casimira on Jun 1, 2020 21:46:59 GMT
I recall vividly the first time I heard my own voice from a tape recorder at a friend's house when I was about 9 or 10 years old.
I kinda freaked because I didn't recognize it if that makes any sense.
Not long after that when I went to give my first confession to a priest, while inside the curtained confessional booth where the priest couldn't see me nor I see him, he said: "Now, son, for your penance you will say 3 Our Fathers, and 10 Hail Mary's..."
I haven't been the same since...
No dulcet tones from this fair lady I'm afraid.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2020 21:55:09 GMT
Your old priest must have had hair in his ears! You don't at all have a masculine voice.
I insist you produce a recording and also want you to make that very specific Long Island back-of-the-throat noise of disgust that apparently only people from there are able to make.
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Post by casimira on Jun 1, 2020 22:05:15 GMT
I have never ever had any kind of Long Island accent.
And, people are always surprised that I am from there and remark that they don't detect a L.I. or N.Y. accent.
I likely sound more Southern having lived here so long.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2020 22:08:10 GMT
Not that accent, the one people like to make fun of (Lung Island). Nope. I've known other people from your neck of the woods and it can't really be called an accent except for that funny sound of disgust, which perhaps you're unaware of.
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Post by casimira on Jun 1, 2020 22:16:05 GMT
I'll go along with that part. I just asked T. and he agreed...
I cant get out of this now.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2020 22:48:18 GMT
Can you hear my smug cackle across the miles?
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Post by rikita on Jun 16, 2020 23:13:25 GMT
ok, i tried, but i sound strange ... here
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 16, 2020 23:17:55 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 16, 2020 23:22:25 GMT
Hope it's okay that I copied & pasted the share url above. The link you provided works and I can see the 16-second recording, but for whatever reason it won't play for me.
Anyway, you don't sound strange. In fact, you have a lovely voice and you sound quite elegant. Thanks so much, Rikita! Do you think Agnes would like to record her voice?
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Post by rikita on Jun 16, 2020 23:36:22 GMT
i will ask her tomorrow ...
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Post by rikita on Jun 17, 2020 11:18:58 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 17, 2020 12:29:58 GMT
You have a very smooth voice Rikita. 'A' sounds cute and neither of you sound anything other than being native English speakers.
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Post by casimira on Jun 17, 2020 12:56:47 GMT
How delightful!
I agree with both Bixa and Mark. Elegant and proper. You don't sound tired to me Rikita. And, in the case of Agnes, I think it likely she didn't really know that she was being recorded or what it was all about at the time. That's the way most children react when they are presented with a task that's unfamiliar to them.
I would imagine she is very talkative at times but, being asked to speak into a machine on the spur of the moment probably threw her off.
I'm going to give mine a go a bit later because it's a tad early in the morning here nd I tend to sound nasally after just awakening because of early a.m. allergies/congestion in my nasal passage. (People always say, "you sound like you have a cold" when they phone me in the early a.m.)
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