We have different voices that we use depending on the type of situation we're in. We speak in a higher register when talking to babies. We slow our speech and dumb down our vocabulary when talking to children. We speak louder when talking to the elderly.
And even when we're not talking to children and the elderly, we talk more naturally when talking to friends and more professionally in the workplace.
I've been a receptionist and a reporter, and I know that I change the inflection of my voice when speaking to customers and sources.
But I had no idea that I had a hidden voice talent.
Never have I ever been told I had one of those voices that belongs on TV, yet my colleague has repeatedly told me I sound like the voices on Nickelodeon. She said this in front of the media editor, who asked me to record a spread and agreed that my voice in front of a microphone is totally different than the one I use to speak. Plus, she mentioned how impressed she was that I spoke so polished and it only took us one take.
I apparently sound so different that my own parents watched this video that I made for one of our new consumer products and asked me where I got the voiceover from. Well, mom and dad, I got it from you guys! See for yourselves:
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