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Old 02-21-2014, 02:21 PM   #52
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by glatt
Do you use different voices on different people in real life? I mean, we all do, but do you have some sort of professional voices you pull out for use on real people?
Not the narrator voice, no. I would sound like a marketing twat. Occasionally I'll use a serious-confident-lawyerish voice on the phone with the insurance company, because I want the customer service rep to feel personally liable for solving my problem. But I don't think it's that much different than everyone else does. The only time I can think of where I really use a completely different persona is when buying a car, because I am a *shit* negotiator, and it helps if I think of it as if I'm actually just playing the role of a good negotiator. That way I can say things that the real me would be too chicken to say, if that makes any sense at all. But even then, it's not really about the voice so much as the words.
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