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Post by k5125 on May 13, 2005 20:41:06 GMT -5
Obviously people of negroid ancestry tend to have deeper voices.
But is there a difference between the voices of Americans of East Asian descent and Americans of European descent?
I always noticed that Asian American women (ones that speak english as a first language) tend to have a different sounding voice than women of european descent.
Middle easterners its hard to tell. Do you think middle easterners have a differnt voice pitch then europeans?
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Post by Josh on May 13, 2005 20:55:30 GMT -5
I think that the main differences in voice are between Negroids and non-Negroids and that the differences within the non-Negroid races are much more subtle.
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Post by Soomaal on May 13, 2005 20:55:38 GMT -5
LOL
I don't know I think everbody sounds different individually.
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Post by santana on May 15, 2005 1:53:15 GMT -5
actually no i think there is a difference.... once this random person called me on the phone and even tho i didnt know who they were and they were speaking in english i knew right away they were egyptian.. it was something in the voice.. i dont know if it was high or low but it sounded familiar..
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Post by NunzioGuido on May 15, 2005 16:05:29 GMT -5
In the South and Midwest anybody who speaks with a New York/New Jersey accent they automatically assume your either Italian or Jewish.
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Post by Crimson Guard on May 16, 2005 2:29:42 GMT -5
IS that real or a myth! I'am from Brooklyn,and been to many states,never have I been assumed to be from New York.
I have a deep voice!
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Post by Ponto Hardbottle on May 16, 2005 10:21:58 GMT -5
And if you sound like you're from Boston does that mean you are Irish? I have not noticed any racial or subracial differences in the sound of peoples voices.
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Post by k5125 on May 16, 2005 11:33:07 GMT -5
I am not talking about accents.
I'm referring strictly to voice tone. Its pretty easy to tell a black person's voice apart from other voices for instance.
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Post by NuSapiens on May 16, 2005 13:34:20 GMT -5
I am not talking about accents. I'm referring strictly to voice tone. Its pretty easy to tell a black person's voice apart from other voices for instance. African American comedians often make fun of white voices by adopting a seminasalized staccato tone and modulation. Americans of N European extraction tend towards a lack of emotive/emphatic modulation in pitch within sentences. Due to WASP dominance in American business culture, this type of speech also acts as a marker of class and regional neutrality.
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Post by mike2 on May 16, 2005 13:40:54 GMT -5
It doesn't matter the accent or the upbringing, be it southern gentleman, Oxford professor, Black African chief, or hiphop thug, I think I can almost always tell when a black person is talking. There's got to be something to that.
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Post by gulereatie on May 16, 2005 16:52:17 GMT -5
It doesn't matter the accent or the upbringing, be it southern gentleman, Oxford professor, Black African chief, or hiphop thug, I think I can almost always tell when a black person is talking. There's got to be something to that. but there is plenty of blacks who talk indistinguishable from whites. you cant deny that
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Post by mike2 on May 16, 2005 22:40:31 GMT -5
True enough, but there's still something about the voice tone that I can't put my finger on.
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Post by Toasty on May 17, 2005 1:33:11 GMT -5
Yep, I can tell when it's a brother's voice most of the time.
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Post by Josh on May 17, 2005 2:02:10 GMT -5
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Post by kirusabi on May 18, 2005 16:17:55 GMT -5
I didn't take the time to read all the replies in this thread so forgive me stepping on anyones toes that said the same thing earlier
I don't believe race has anything to do with voice pitch, voices change due to accent plain and simple, If a black child was raised in a white family with texan accents in the middle of nowhere i can assure you you cannot tell if you heard him over the phone he was black. Its almost innate, we pick up from our parents how to pitch our voices and train them subconciously as such to carry certain accents - much like children learning to roll their "r's"
forgive the typos if any, i'm too lazy to go back and correct them
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