Who has a lovely speaking voice, and why?

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

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

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!!!

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 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.

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.

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 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. ?

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 )

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

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’ve been told I have a very calming voice, must have caught me on a good day ! ??

Clive Imrie

Correction Clive Marie

A Frenchman told me once my voice sang but he was pissed at the time

I have the weirdest of accents- nobody ever gets it right.

I have been 'accused' of being Welsh and South African- go figure!

An earlier post pointed out that David Beckham had an unexpectedly light voice for his size.

Also, Henry VIII who was over 6ft tall and very wide, was said to have had a squeaky voice by contemporaries!