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[jaydub]

However, impressions... I do a good Tom Waits, a great Dave Mustaine (which is a lot like Macho Man Randy Savage), the world's greatest Axl Rose, a passable Elvis (which is a lot like Eddie Vedder), a disasterously bad David Bowie and a disasterously good Bob Dylan.

You can do a Tom Waits with a voice that doesn't sound masculine?

I think my voice sounds like Mickey penis, so don't think you're suffering alone.  I've come to accept it, but I used to intentionally try to speak with a lower pitch.  It was tiring.

[littlefallsmets]

The key to a Tom Waits impression is to pretend that you are have bronchitis and a hangover at the same time.

[jaydub]

I do a wide variety of accents, mostly badly, as I read books to my children. 

I try to do this as well, along with singing (especially in Winnie the Pooh stories), but my daughter doesn't allow me to read in anything but my own voice.  She'll put her hand over my lips and say, "Now Daddy, what have I said?  Use a normal voice!"

I do get to sing Waltzing Matilda in an Aussie accent.  People always ask me to "say something in Australian", but I usually decline since my accent is pretty vestigial unless I've been around some ex-pats.  Then it comes out and embarrasses me.  Stacey can usually tell if I've run across an Aussie at work when I get home at night.

[jay-ell]

My understanding is that very few people actually like the sound of their own voices. 

I, however, am married to one of those few. 

[jaydub]

I love to hear myself talk, don't get me wrong.  We get guest speakers and academics in all the time at work, and I'm chatting them up during seminars and presentations and whatnot while my teammates kick me in the shins under the table.  I just don't like hearing it played back.

I think we're all tricked by some sort of biological bass filter or something that makes us sound more sonorous and authoritative to ourselves than actually gets projected.  Possibly bone conduction?

[Victoria Waterfield]

I love to hear myself talk, don't get me wrong.  We get guest speakers and academics in all the time at work, and I'm chatting them up during seminars and presentations and whatnot while my teammates kick me in the shins under the table.  I just don't like hearing it played back.

I think we're all tricked by some sort of biological bass filter or something that makes us sound more sonorous and authoritative to ourselves than actually gets projected.  Possibly bone conduction?

This reminds me of something I've wondered for some time now. Did people know that their own voice doesn't sound to everyone else like it does to them before there were audio recording devices? I suppose you might be able to make some deductions by noticing that the echo of your own voice sounds less like your voice than the echo of someone else's voice sounds like their voice, and identical twins could also notice that their twin's voice doesn't sound like their own, but it seems to me that this wouldn't be a sufficient basis of evidence for the fact that one's own voice sounds different to oneself than it does to everyone else being widely known.

[CortJstr]

This reminds me of something I've wondered for some time now. Did people know that their own voice doesn't sound to everyone else like it does to them before there were audio recording devices? I suppose you might be able to make some deductions by noticing that the echo of your own voice sounds less like your voice than the echo of someone else's voice sounds like their voice, and identical twins could also notice that their twin's voice doesn't sound like their own, but it seems to me that this wouldn't be a sufficient basis of evidence for the fact that one's own voice sounds different to oneself than it does to everyone else being widely known.

I'm going to guess that failed impressions helped with this discovery. "That sound nothing like Grunk!" "You crazy, me sound exactly like Grunk!"

[Choop]

wait what was her name again?

[wombat]

and identical twins could also notice that their twin's voice doesn't sound like their own,

Identical twins' voices don't sound identical though. There's a definitely family resemblance between the Technical Staff's voice and his brother's, but I don't think I'd call them identical.

[theinevitable]

what confuses me is that people always comment that I have a "good radio voice," when to me my voice sounds maybe kind of cool, but not at all the deep awesome radio voice. It is mid-ranged, I think. Obviously I like the way it sounds when conducted through my own bones better than when it's out there in the air, just like everyone does.
I wonder if maybe they mean that the way I talk is good for radio?

[Carlos del Vaca]

The ladyfriend and I will have this thing, where if we klutz something up, she or I will exclaim "WHATAM AH DOIN?!"

Betchoo I can hitchoo withis!