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imaginator · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:50 am Post subject: SCIENCE FINDS THE PERFECT VOICE

saw this on the bbc this morning, and half-expected it to be a story about mr. banks.

while i don't know if all the findings apply universally, it's still an interesting read. here's the link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7426923.stm
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Lizden · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:21 am Post subject:

Interesting!
And OF COURSE the perfect voice is British! Wink

Now....were those computer generated voices?...pretty good actually...

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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2279 Location: Atlanta

LOL on the Jwonathwon Woss voice being less likeable.

Speaking at a measured pace with real pauses between sentences and a falling cadence with well chosen pitch spikes is exactly how one ought to speak...and exactly the opposite of how America speaks today. It's not about accent, it's about the voice's song.

In any dialect, I find it very hard to balance a contemporary Everyman voice with likeability and trust. Today's Everyman is not a likeable character and drinks to much coffee.
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Lizden · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:59 am Post subject:

ricevoice · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:12 am Post subject:

Did you put 5 shots or 6 in my super-venti iced americano? You put 6 in there, right? Cuz I ordered 6 and 5 really won't cut it. It's 6 shots, right? Right?!?!?!?!!?!?!? Why am I sweating?
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Moe Egan · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:25 am Post subject:

Perfect!
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Lizden · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:27 am Post subject:

Here. Chris, have mine.
I'm switching to Herbal Tea for the day. cool

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JimRon · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:41 am Post subject:

very interesting read.

so i gather they don't think bobcat goldthwait has a voice that's soothing on the ears? Wink

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Gp · Guest

Well that was a pretty stupid waste of money and time for those people. That didn't sound like me at all!

louzucaro · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:42 am Post subject:

Interesting, yes, but don't you think it would have been better to NOT use famous people for the study? No doubt some of the people involved recognized, consciously or sub-consciously, the celeb voices and automatically associated positively with them because of that recognition.

I'm sure this worked against some of the celebs as well, but probably to a much lesser degree.

I also noticed that the perfect female voice sounded vaguely familiar to Lara Croft from some of the Tomb Raider games Wink

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