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English:Post a longer clip, recite a famous monologue or poem so we can judge your voice, tonality and cadence better.
Your voice sounds monotonous, bland and kinda apsie, you need to inject more life and energy in it.English:
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Tried to put life in itYour voice sounds monotonous, bland and kinda apsie, you need to inject more life and energy in it.
When I speak naturallyStill sounds monotonous, I don't know...maybe you need some voice or acting lessons, choose some based on classical theater acting, they teach there how to speak loud, clear, to enunciate clearly every word so anyone could hear you.
Interesting, what app is that?When I speak naturally
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When I force myself to not be monotone
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It's over for aspies
VocularInteresting, what app is that?
Interesting, what app is that?
What causes a monotone voice?
Testosterone definitely seems to be one cause. Men tend to have more monotone voices than women, and this change kicks in during puberty – as the voice drops in pitch, it becomes flatter and less intonated too. Similarly, a study which pitted men against each other found that those with higher testosterone levels had more monotone voices, and these same men also had stronger arms and sounded more dominant than the other men.
This is something we see in Vocular’s database too. Not only did the 50 most monotone voices all belong to men, the Top 3 all belonged from former #1 tennis players: namely Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer. So it fits the brief of a competitive personality almost too well…
Another surprising connection was that men with monotone voices tended to have more sexual partners, even though these voices were rated as no more attractive than the more varying voices.
Are monotone voices attractive?
This one really depends who you are and where you are. If you’re a man in the English-speaking world, then being monotone doesn’t seem to make a difference to your vocal attractiveness. Studies don’t tend to find a correlation and you see this in the voices people claim to like – for every Alan Rickman or Tom Hiddleston there’s a Morgan Freeman or David Attenborough.
However, studies done in French, Chinese or Japanese all find a monotone voice to be unattractive in both sexes. This is probably a cultural thing stemming from the language – for example, Mandarin is a tonal language and relies on changes in pitch to give words their literal meaning, so a monotone voice sounds quite alien in China.
Bottom line is that a monotone voice seems to be an asset if you’re a Western man, but probably not if you’re a woman (although the lack of studies doesn’t give us much to go on). And if you’re moving to France, China or Japan, you might want to shake it up a bit.