How to naturally talk like a guy?

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#1 mike_me
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So I've been watching videos off my cellular telephonic device, and I've noticed that my voice sounds realllly girly... almost like I'm *** or something (this word should not be censored, by the way, it's ridiculous). Also I've been noticing when I talk to people my voice is high, but when I talk to guys, I force my voice to sound lower, to fit in, as if I am a guy just like them. And it feels extremely forced, like I'm just faking it; and I always feel awkward changing my voice like that. I think it comes off as forced too... But I am a guy, I shouldn't have a high voice because I am 22. So, what the heck ? Does anyone else do this? =( Edit: Ah, I forgot to mention, I think it's because I grew up with two sisters, and I have had hardly any male friends throughout my life. But my question is, is there a way to change it so that my normal voice is like a guy's ?
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#2 MediumBread
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My voice is deep and sexy. 8)

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#3 mike_me
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My voice is deep and sexy. 8)

MediumBread
Should I chant this over and over for a few hours? =D Hopefully this'll work.
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#4 entropyecho
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I'm going to need to hear a recording.

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#5 MediumBread
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[QUOTE="MediumBread"]

My voice is deep and sexy. 8)

mike_me

Should I chant this over and over for a few hours? =D Hopefully this'll work.

Maybe you need to find a way to drop your bollocks lower?

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#6 FragStains
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Well, the way I and (I think) every other man gets a manly voice is to locate a asphalt paving crew. Get a cup or two of the asphalt and gargle with the first cup, and actually swallow the second. You should have a manly voice. I can't believe you haven't tried this already.
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#7 weezyfb
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i would take male hormones
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Go into the woods and wrestle a bear
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#9 mike_me
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I'm going to need to hear a recording.

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Actually I am comparing my voice to like... well, just imagine a emo guy or something, they sometimes tend to sound ***, although I am not emo I suppose you could compare it to that.
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#10 MediumBread
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Go into the woods and wrestle a bearBiancaDK

Naked.

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Go into the woods and wrestle a bearBiancaDK
This. And then pursue a career as a fighter pilot/firefighter/lumberjack.
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#12 mike_me
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Maybe you need to find a way to drop your bollocks lower?MediumBread
They're already down to my ankles =/ Any lower and they'd get run over by a car or something. Also I am 22 :P
Go into the woods and wrestle a bearBiancaDK
Been there done that :( It was a no go.
Naked.MediumBread
I can't believe I haven't thought of that... Alright guys, brb!
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#13 BiancaDK
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[QUOTE="BiancaDK"]Go into the woods and wrestle a bearMediumBread

Naked.

And unshaved, whilst maintaining an impressive erection throughout the ordeal.

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#14 MediumBread
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[QUOTE="MediumBread"]

[QUOTE="BiancaDK"]Go into the woods and wrestle a bearBiancaDK

Naked.

And unshaved, whilst maintaining an impressive erection throughout the ordeal.

While ordering your women to make you a sandwich.

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#15 BiancaDK
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While ordering your women to make you a sandwich.

MediumBread

Being a misogynist =/= being manly. >=[

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#16 MediumBread
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[QUOTE="MediumBread"]

While ordering your women to make you a sandwich.

BiancaDK

Being a misogynist =/= being manly. >=[

Well, of course a women would say that. :roll:

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#17 Atmanix
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We're going to need to hear your voice to tell if you actually have a problem or not. There was some website people were recording their voices on a while ago, go there.

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#18 Dystopian-X
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[QUOTE="MediumBread"]

While ordering your women to make you a sandwich.

BiancaDK

Being a misogynist =/= being manly. >=[

This is what you get for humouring and idiot who still thinkssandwichjokes are funny and also happens to be hairy mastodon.

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#19 MediumBread
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[QUOTE="BiancaDK"]

[QUOTE="MediumBread"]

While ordering your women to make you a sandwich.

Dystopian-X

Being a misogynist =/= being manly. >=[

This is what you get for humouring and idiot who still thinkssandwichjokes are funny and also happens to be hairy mastodon.

; D

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#20 branketra
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Tell me, on a scale of one to ten, what would you rate your neck muscles?
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#21 alexh_99
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Honestly i bet your voice sounds fine. Everyones voice sounds weird to them when they hear it in a recording.

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#22 mike_me
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Tell me, on a scale of one to ten, what would you rate your neck muscles?BranKetra
Maybe a 3? I don't know, my entire body is pretty slender I've been muscularly small for most of my life (been fat once though). So I'm pretty tall, and skinny. Would that have something to do with my voice?
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#23 branketra
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[QUOTE="BranKetra"]Tell me, on a scale of one to ten, what would you rate your neck muscles?mike_me
Maybe a 3? I don't know, my entire body is pretty slender I've been muscularly small for most of my life (been fat once though). So I'm pretty tall, and skinny. Would that have something to do with my voice?

I think so. I'm pretty sure each part of the body influences something else. When my neck muscles started getting thicker, so did my voice. That's not the only muscle group I've been working on, but I think there's a connection.

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#24 aaronmullan
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Just live with what you got, man. If people judge you on it then you're better off without 'em.
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#25 Inconsistancy
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Use more air when you speak.
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#26 XilePrincess
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Your voice doesn't sound the way it does because of who you grow up around, that's stupid. Growing up around women doesn't make your voice feminine. You have a girly voice. Too bad, whatever. It's not "because of" anything. The fact that you're 22 and think that your natural speaking voice is influenced whatsoever by the people you live in a house with just disqualifies this entire thread from being worthy of any sort of helpful response.
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#27 v13_KiiLtz
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TC, are you sure you're a guy?
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So I've been watching videos off my cellular telephonic device, and I've noticed that my voice sounds realllly girly... almost like I'm *** or somethingmike_me
You should be so lucky as to have my manly gay voice
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#29 mike_me
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Your voice doesn't sound the way it does because of who you grow up around, that's stupid. Growing up around women doesn't make your voice feminine. You have a girly voice. Too bad, whatever. It's not "because of" anything. The fact that you're 22 and think that your natural speaking voice is influenced whatsoever by the people you live in a house with just disqualifies this entire thread from being worthy of any sort of helpful response.XilePrincess
It can attribute to feminine mannerisms and tone. That's how I grew up and learned how to speak.
TC, are you sure you're a guy?v13_KiiLtz
I dunno, I was told that the noodle-looking thing was for guys but I'm still doing my own research on that just to be sure.
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#30 v13_KiiLtz
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Your voice doesn't sound the way it does because of who you grow up around, that's stupid. Growing up around women doesn't make your voice feminine. You have a girly voice. Too bad, whatever. It's not "because of" anything. The fact that you're 22 and think that your natural speaking voice is influenced whatsoever by the people you live in a house with just disqualifies this entire thread from being worthy of any sort of helpful response.XilePrincess
I know a gay guy who speaks in fairly high pitched tone. It isn't his natural tone, he's just use to speaking like that.
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#31 zoraluv
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[QUOTE="entropyecho"]

I'm going to need to hear a recording.

mike_me

Actually I am comparing my voice to like... well, just imagine a emo guy or something, they sometimes tend to sound ***, although I am not emo I suppose you could compare it to that.

i knew a kid he was a football player and a "classclown" very popular kid and all

he had a "emo *** tone"

its something that can't be helped sometimes

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#32 000000000111
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TC is this your problem??? Maybe you should try Old Spice then the ladies wouldn't care, because you would smell like Isaiah Mustafa (the Old Spice guy.)

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[QUOTE="XilePrincess"]Your voice doesn't sound the way it does because of who you grow up around, that's stupid. Growing up around women doesn't make your voice feminine. You have a girly voice. Too bad, whatever. It's not "because of" anything. The fact that you're 22 and think that your natural speaking voice is influenced whatsoever by the people you live in a house with just disqualifies this entire thread from being worthy of any sort of helpful response.mike_me
It can attribute to feminine mannerisms and tone. That's how I grew up and learned how to speak.
TC, are you sure you're a guy?v13_KiiLtz
I dunno, I was told that the noodle-looking thing was for guys but I'm still doing my own research on that just to be sure.


I know what you're talking about. When I'm speaking normally, my voice is pretty low. When I'm being polite however, it raises half a note or so because the only one whom I learned to be polite from is my sister.

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#34 Feryraiser
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suck in heluim,,,

eventaully ur voice sounds more manly

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You must have grown up in a lesbian household that was absent of abuse, but didn't have a male to guide you into manhood.
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#36 XilePrincess
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[QUOTE="mike_me"] It can attribute to feminine mannerisms and tone. That's how I grew up and learned how to speak.

So... how exactly are mannerisms the same thing as the natural depth of your voice? Cripes, my boyfriend spends 90% of his time around women, he's got a deep voice. Your vocal cords and the way they sound have nothing to do with being around women, your voice is unaffected by that. The only thing you could possibly pick up from women is mimicking the way they say certain words, but then, that's not natural, that's mimicry. The tone of your voice may change depending on how you're speaking and who you're speaking to, but it has NOTHING to do with being around women. [QUOTE="v13_KiiLtz"] I know a gay guy who speaks in fairly high pitched tone. It isn't his natural tone, he's just use to speaking like that.

So... what you're saying is, people can change the way their voices sound, from something natural to unnatural? *Gasp!* Don't tell the hundreds of thousands of voice actors of the world that their secret is out, or somebody might figure out that Bart Simpson is actually a middleaged woman!
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#37 entropyecho
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You must have grown up in a lesbian household that was absent of abuse, but didn't have a male to guide you into manhood. wstfld
And now everything comes full circle.

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#38 mike_me
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Regardless I don't want to get into anything on here, thanks for all the responses :)
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#39 v13_KiiLtz
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So... what you're saying is, people can change the way their voices sound, from something natural to unnatural? *Gasp!* Don't tell the hundreds of thousands of voice actors of the world that their secret is out, or somebody might figure out that Bart Simpson is actually a middleaged woman!XilePrincess
No, thats not what I was saying. I was saying that it's possible for your tone of voice to change due to other factors. Hell, I wouldn't call it this guys "natural" tone because it isn't the tone he normally speaks in.
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#40 XilePrincess
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[QUOTE="XilePrincess"]So... what you're saying is, people can change the way their voices sound, from something natural to unnatural? *Gasp!* Don't tell the hundreds of thousands of voice actors of the world that their secret is out, or somebody might figure out that Bart Simpson is actually a middleaged woman!v13_KiiLtz
No, thats not what I was saying. I was saying that it's possible for your tone of voice to change due to other factors. Hell, I wouldn't call it this guys "natural" tone because it isn't the tone he normally speaks in.

He's forcing his voice to change, after a while of doing that you can switch it on and off from your natural tone to your unnatural one seamlessly. If he doesn't have a naturally gay voice, and is forcing it, there's no other factor there besides force.
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#41 v13_KiiLtz
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[QUOTE="v13_KiiLtz"][QUOTE="XilePrincess"]So... what you're saying is, people can change the way their voices sound, from something natural to unnatural? *Gasp!* Don't tell the hundreds of thousands of voice actors of the world that their secret is out, or somebody might figure out that Bart Simpson is actually a middleaged woman!XilePrincess
No, thats not what I was saying. I was saying that it's possible for your tone of voice to change due to other factors. Hell, I wouldn't call it this guys "natural" tone because it isn't the tone he normally speaks in.

He's forcing his voice to change, after a while of doing that you can switch it on and off from your natural tone to your unnatural one seamlessly. If he doesn't have a naturally gay voice, and is forcing it, there's no other factor there besides force.

It's not necessarily forcing it, though I can understand how you can think that. Think of accents, there's a distinct change in tone when you try to put one on, though thats not because you are "forcing it", it just happens naturally. Now lets take this example one step further. Say you're raised in Brooklyn. You're going to have that nasally, manner of speech. Now lets flip this and say you were raised in suburban Australia, where the tone is much flatter. Can you identify which is the more natural voice? The answer is neither. Can you honestly again say "Your voice doesn't sound the way it does because of who you grow up around"
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[QUOTE="v13_KiiLtz"][QUOTE="XilePrincess"][QUOTE="v13_KiiLtz"] No, thats not what I was saying. I was saying that it's possible for your tone of voice to change due to other factors. Hell, I wouldn't call it this guys "natural" tone because it isn't the tone he normally speaks in.

He's forcing his voice to change, after a while of doing that you can switch it on and off from your natural tone to your unnatural one seamlessly. If he doesn't have a naturally gay voice, and is forcing it, there's no other factor there besides force.

It's not necessarily forcing it, though I can understand how you can think that. Think of accents, there's a distinct change in tone when you try to put one on, though thats not because you are "forcing it", it just happens naturally. Now lets take this example one step further. Say you're raised in Brooklyn. You're going to have that nasally, manner of speech. Now lets flip this and say you were raised in suburban Australia, where the tone is much flatter. Can you identify which is the more natural voice? The answer is neither. Can you honestly again say "Your voice doesn't sound the way it does because of who you grow up around"

My point exactly. Thank you.
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#43 XilePrincess
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[QUOTE="v13_KiiLtz"] It's not necessarily forcing it, though I can understand how you can think that. Think of accents, there's a distinct change in tone when you try to put one on, though thats not because you are "forcing it", it just happens naturally. Now lets take this example one step further. Say you're raised in Brooklyn. You're going to have that nasally, manner of speech. Now lets flip this and say you were raised in suburban Australia, where the tone is much flatter. Can you identify which is the more natural voice? The answer is neither. Can you honestly again say "Your voice doesn't sound the way it does because of who you grow up around"

No, that wasn't the point at all. Accents =/= genders. That's a stupid comparison. I was actually going to make that point earlier, but scrapped it, as it was irrelevant. I didn't say who you grow up around in general, I said you don't start sounding like a woman because you're raised with two girls. Your ACCENT is your natural "voice". Think kate winslet in titanic vs her in revolutionary road. Titanic? natural accent, didn't have to train or change her voice, spoke normally. the way her voice NATURALLY is. Revolutionary road? Discarded the accent, adopted an american Connecticut accent? Natural accent? no. Natural way of speaking? Nope. She had to learn to speak "american". If I start talking like I'm from jersey, is that my natural voice? no it isn't, because I don't naturally have a jersey accent. accents are accents, if they aren't the accent you naturally have, they're not natural. gay is often considered an accent. Any accent is considered a natural voice if that's the voice you would do without thinking about it, that you have without having to "train" yourself to speak any other way. I speak some french, but I have to force the french accentuations and pronounciations on words because I don't naturally speak with a french accent. Having an accent has nothing to do with sounding like a woman or a prepubescent boy. Like I said, female is not an accent, and neither is puberty.
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#44 v13_KiiLtz
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No, that wasn't the point at all. Accents =/= genders. That's a stupid comparison. I was actually going to make that point earlier, but scrapped it, as it was irrelevant. I didn't say who you grow up around in general, I said you don't start sounding like a woman because you're raised with two girls.

Your ACCENT is your natural "voice". Think kate winslet in titanic vs her in revolutionary road. Titanic? natural accent, didn't have to train or change her voice, spoke normally. the way her voice NATURALLY is. Revolutionary road? Discarded the accent, adopted an american Connecticut accent? Natural accent? no. Natural way of speaking? Nope. She had to learn to speak "american".

If I start talking like I'm from jersey, is that my natural voice? no it isn't, because I don't naturally have a jersey accent. accents are accents, if they aren't the accent you naturally have, they're not natural. gay is often considered an accent. Any accent is considered a natural voice if that's the voice you would do without thinking about it, that you have without having to "train" yourself to speak any other way. I speak some french, but I have to force the french accentuations and pronounciations on words because I don't naturally speak with a french accent.

Having an accent has nothing to do with sounding like a woman or a prepubescent boy. Like I said, female is not an accent, and neither is puberty.XilePrincess

I'm not talking about learning different accents or different enunciations. It was just an example about learning everything naturally.

I'm talking about going straight to the root of things; grabbing someone who was raised in one environment, rewinding time, then placing them in another. Their tone of voice is going to be undoubtedly different and there is no way to correctly identify which is the more natural.

Is it that hard to accept that maybe if he grew up with two brothers and more male friends instead, his voice may have adapted to become more deeper? It could just be a reflex to speak at such a pitch. There's no way to directly identify that TC's normal tone of voice was unaffected by females.

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#45 Gam3rKittens
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Having a deep voice is overrated. Men and women have different pitches across the board. You'll fit in better if you be yourself, otherwise why are you hanging with such losers.
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#46 Baconbits2004
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Yo dawg, we heard you wanted to sound like a guy, so we put a voice in your voice so you can talk while you talk.
So you can talk while you talk.