Do you have a telephone voice

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I'm like Sara1954. I pick up the accent of whoever I am talking to. I'm not sure what my "real" voice sounds like.

Me too. I once lived with two wonderful friends from Plymouth.
For a while I had a Devon accent broader than theirs.
A few people actually asked me if I was from Cornwall.
I easily pick up Irish accents too, I think that that is quite common for some reason.

I have quite a deep voice, and have been mistaken for a male on the phone a few times. I don't alter my speaking voice, but on my answerphone greeting I have deliberately used a higher voice.

I think I must have honed my clear diction telephone voice a little too well because, when I answered the phone at work a little while ago, the person on the other end of the phone said "ugh, its one of those damned recorded answerphone messages", and hung up!

No but my OH does. Makes me giggle. Such a poseur.

I've just remembered something daft that I did on the phone last week.
I make lots of calls for my DH as he hates talking on the phone, especially to doctors and the like. He had a stutter as a child, and for some reason it returns when he's on the blower.
I always start these calls with
'Hello. I'm ringing on behalf of my husband'
Anyway, this week I had to reorder my Ddog's flea and worm prevention from the vet.
And I started this call with
'Hello. I'm ringing on behalf of my dog'
?
(The receptionist didn't ask me to put her on the phone to get her permission)

Chewbacca that made me chuckle. I also have a phone voice which DH calls my Hyacinth Bouquet voice. Normally I sound like a London version of Pamela from ‘Gavin & Stacy’. ( I look quite a bit like her too)

I have a very bored sounding voice when an unsolicited caller asks me how I am!

I do. Not always, but on occasions when it seems to be useful I use clipped pronunciation and the phonetic alphabet which is fun although I forget some of the letters and have to make them up.

My twin sister and I have exactly the same voice and when I answered the telephone at her house a man sort of whispered “I have told the wife I am going for a run, I will be around in 5 minutes”! I replied Ok, I will pass the message on” He was absolutely floored!

In only have to say "Hello" and friends and family know it's me.
I hate listening to my voice.

My mum would adopt a posh voice on the phone with those there no friends or family.

error ---- mum would adopt a posh voice on the phone with those that were not friends or family.

Same here Kate1949,i couldn`t if i tried.

When I started secondary school the English teacher told us all we would have to learn a second language. We were fluent in Norfolk and now had to learn English so we could communicate with the rest of the country. So yes, unless I'm talking to a friend or local or cold caller I want to annoy, I speak English.

I have had a few minor strokes, so I have to speak slowly and pronounce my words carefully otherwise I stutter. Usually it comes on when I have to use a couple of words beginning with the letter P.

Please don't ask me to recite Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers!!

I heard the sound of my own voice recently and I was quite shocked, I sounded so old!

I don’t think I do, but I did try to speak even more clearly when using the phone at work. I was asked by my manager if I would use my voice to record the answerphone message for the office which I felt quite flattered about.

I used to, because my first job when I left school was as a telephonist on a switchboard and I was told to speak clearly and without an accent.
But I don't think I do any more. I sound Devonshire whatever I do. I do pick up accents easily though when I've been abroad.

I also pick up the accent of the person I'm talking to. I didn't realise I did, but DH finds it amusing.

I’d like to think I always sound the same - but who knows!!!!

Apparently I sound like Princess Anne

I don't intend to have a different voice when I answer the phone, it just happens that way .

I have a Mancunian accent and I think I sound the same all the time, by 'eck. But if I'm on the phone to someone "official" I do try to speak a bit more clearly than I might do otherwise.

I try to speak clearly on the phone so may have a telephone voice. My husband amuses me as when the call is for him he sings a little tune when walking to the phone.

I sound just like my DD on the phone and once I held a telephone interview on her behalf for her journalism course. I must have done well as the interviewer always favoured her on the course.

I worked in customer service for several years and yes, I did have a slightly different voice for the phone at work.
I was often speaking to people that were hard of hearing or English not their first language so you have to speak clearly so they can hear and understand, but I hopefully didn't "talk posh"
You could always tell who my mother was talking to on the phone by the way that she spoke!