Who has a lovely speaking voice, and why?

During the course of my job I had to converse with many people. I was visiting a lady in her 70s and on my 3rd visit I was saying goodbye, wishing her well and that it would be unlikely I would visit again. The lady, looking quite upset blurted out she had been thinking very hard of something she could raise that would mean I had to see her again. I laughed a bit and asked why. Her response, she loved listening to my voice. Apparently I spoke softly but clearly, with a little song in the sound, (yes song) but no accent. The lady had been a speech therapist all her working life.

I have a good speaking voice and both of my careers have relied on that

Just this weekend in Scotland I was told I have a posh voice ...same when I moved to N E England .........but it don't ...its just the difference in regional accents ..........love them all .....but when I lived in France, wherever in the UK you came from you were always 'English'............... also some people were surprised when they met me after talking on the phone that I was so ancient as they told me I have a young voice (but PLEASEA NOT like that Haribo advert )

My Mum worked handling a multi million pound budget for a large firm, and regularly dealt with a 26 year old chap on the phone...she was early 60s. He asked her on a date and she pointed out her husband wouldn't be pleased. When he heard Mum had been widowed, he arranged to visit, intending to beg her attention - apparently he went into shock! He thought he was chatting up a 20 something, as her voice was so joyously sexy.

When I used to answer my home phone, no longer have one, they sometimes asked to speak to my mother. I'm also asked at times to repeat myself too with my Northern Ireland accent.

I loved Terry Wogans voice.
I'm a bit of a Heinz 57, born in Dorset, moved to Wiltshire, Shropshire, Yorkshire, Somerset, Hampshire, Cambridgeshire and now settled in South Wales. I think a picked up a little of each on my travels.

I was told by a blind woman that my voice was very warm. My colleagues told me that my voice was very clear, precise and mellifluous with a smooth tone and no particular accent. I could never use it though because I’m afraid of speaking in public. When I hear my voice recorded I don’t particularly think it’s anything special and I most definitely can’t sing, anyone would tell you that

I remember when we first got a landlineback in the 60s. I rang my mum, she sounded so "country bumpkin' nothing like when you spoke to her face to face, most weird

In my mind I have a nice voice but listen back...I'm very Bristolian ?

Gyles Brandreth, Joanna Lumley, Penelope Keith, Simon Reeve, Monty Don - all enunciate well so that I can hear without the subtitles.

I watch quite a few YouTube sewing channels and some of the vloggers have grating voices, or horribly monotonous voices. I avoid them.

I enjoy those presenters who have a jaunty style even when they have a pronounced accent. My favourites are TomKat Stitchery, (Whitney is in Indiana and has a delightful chuckle), Sew Essential (Lucy vlogs from Swadlingcote, in Derbyshire and has a Midland accent. She is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic) and Beyond the Pink Door (Andrea has a lovely, soft southern Irish accent.) They are all skilled in presenting just to me! At least, that's how they come across. ?

Oh Goodness Phoenix you just reminded me - the Jobcentre sent me for an interview with a sex phone call agency. I had to go for the interview or the JC would have stopped my Benefit. I lasted one phonecall and scarpered the hell out of there!

I've had jobs given to me because of my voice - mostly in customer relations. The trouble with this is that one is constantly hearing people in a bad mood. I was offered a job interviewing celebs in our local independent cinema, but I chickened out.

I once tried to record a message on my landline in case I wasn't in and I was horrified how bad I sounded. What I hear in my head is totally different to how it really sounds.

One chap, on visiting our offices for the first time, did comment, "you sound so much more attractive on the phone"! He changed it very swiftly to, "you sound so much younger on the phone"! Does that count? ?

I used to be a local radio presenter and was often told I have a lovely voice. It's nice to be told that when your body's very arthritic!!!

I hate listening to my voice when it is recorded - I sound like the blooming Queen Mother!

When I listen to my voice I don’t like it but I have been told that my voice sounds young, soft and sweet and even sexy !!!! I think we all have a distorted view of how we look and how we sound. We probably appear better to others than we do to ourselves.

I really enjoy listening to Fiona Bruce speak particularly when she co-presents Fake or Fortune and also Miriam Margolyes when she is the voiceover

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How exciting!!

You're not my satnav voice as well are you?

No Callistemon definitely not a satnav voiceover.
Being recorded for an answering service was really rather boring. Apparently my voice is lovely to listen to. OH doesn’t agree.

Mizzy like you it seems I have a very young voice,my OH thought it was hilarious when new clients would tell him the "wee lassie on the phone explained but I just want to be sure " The "wee lassie" started the business and is a wee bit older than the man the caller thinks is the boss .
My late, sadly lamented, Dad said it was because theres always a smile in my voice even when life is hard .Miss my Daddy ,died 28 years ago yesterday .

I had elocution lessons at my boarding school to rid me of the country Suffolk accent I acquired when my father was stationed there. Since then I have always been told that I have a lovely voice and was often asked to do the voice overs for documentaries when I was at film school. When working I regularly had to contact SS, DSS, legal offices etc and speak in court I was often told that I had a great voice. I’m not convinced myself though.

I'm told I have a nice voice, with a gentle, Scottish lilt.

When I hear myself speak, I sound clippit and nippit, and as though I'm going to shout Fandabbiedozie at any minute.

I speak slightly refined Estuary English. Thank God we moved to Wales and that accent, hidden since my childhood, is returning. Love it.
But I am often told that my voice sounds young. Is that good or bad? I don’t know.

I spend a lot of time on the phone. I constantly get chatted up. lots of innuendo, I don’t mind. It’s all a bit of a laugh.
Or when I’m trying to help someone with something they say, oh. It’s alright for you young ones!
If only they could see me, 67 year granny.
I dislike my voice a lot, when I hear it on the videos the children are constantly making I cringe.
I think I must be really annoying, because I always seem to be laughing, not in a good way. In an irritating way.