Morgan BellHer voice is like Treacle . . .
November 9th 2008 08:19
If you are a woman who has ever worked on the phones (call-centre, telemarketing, reception etc) you will know that the more you raise the pitch of your voice, the more politely people will treat you. A high-pitched voice conjures an imagine of youth, naivety, and sweetness. You may even find that when you first meet strangers face-to-face, or if you are asking a question, or requesting a favour, you temporarily develop a helium squeak.
Doris Roberts (who has a naturally deep voice) once said that for her character of Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond:
"I talk way up hee-uh. Because if I used my own voice for Marie, you wouldn't laugh at her. You'd find her quite unpleasant."
"As I speak and you hear my voice, it's a very deep voice, that's not Marie Barone. Marie Barone says, [higher-pitched voice] "Are you hungry, dear?" It's a whole other person. It doesn't have the strength and fortitude of Doris Roberts. It has another attitude, another concept, and I've done that because I think if I used Doris' voice, you'd be afraid. She's too formidable at saying the things that she says. But as Marie, I'm not a scatterbrain, but she's--it's naivety--she has no idea that she's intrusive; she has no idea that she's a control freak."
Woody Allen asked Mira Sorvino to create a voice for her character in his film Mighty Aphrodite but did not tell her how. She just had to sound stupid. So Mira chose the high-pitched dumb sounding voice that became so important for the movie's success. She did not want Linda to be too sexy and too successful as a sex worker, but innocent, natural and stupid - in contrast to her own preconception of the porn world as dark and sleazy.
Mira Sorvino's role as the naive porn-star Linda Ash/Judy Cum earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in 1995.
Women speak in a higher tone of voice when at their most fertile, making them more attractive to the opposite sex, scientists have found. Recordings made when fertility was low and again nearer ovulation showed that women's voices took on more feminine qualities as they neared their optimum time for conceiving.
During testing women spoke in a higher pitch when nearer to the time when an egg is released. The difference in pitch was the greatest on the two highest fertility days just before ovulation. The study shows women change their voice in relation to fertility - and possibly only in social communication contexts.
A study of the Hadza people of Tanzania by academics from McMaster University's department of psychology, neuroscience and behaviour showed that men were more attracted to women with higher voices. A higher pitch was associated with subordination, femininity, health and youthfulness. By contrast, women preferred men with deeper voices.
Doris Roberts (who has a naturally deep voice) once said that for her character of Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond:
"I talk way up hee-uh. Because if I used my own voice for Marie, you wouldn't laugh at her. You'd find her quite unpleasant."
"As I speak and you hear my voice, it's a very deep voice, that's not Marie Barone. Marie Barone says, [higher-pitched voice] "Are you hungry, dear?" It's a whole other person. It doesn't have the strength and fortitude of Doris Roberts. It has another attitude, another concept, and I've done that because I think if I used Doris' voice, you'd be afraid. She's too formidable at saying the things that she says. But as Marie, I'm not a scatterbrain, but she's--it's naivety--she has no idea that she's intrusive; she has no idea that she's a control freak."
Woody Allen asked Mira Sorvino to create a voice for her character in his film Mighty Aphrodite but did not tell her how. She just had to sound stupid. So Mira chose the high-pitched dumb sounding voice that became so important for the movie's success. She did not want Linda to be too sexy and too successful as a sex worker, but innocent, natural and stupid - in contrast to her own preconception of the porn world as dark and sleazy.
Mira Sorvino's role as the naive porn-star Linda Ash/Judy Cum earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in 1995.
Women speak in a higher tone of voice when at their most fertile, making them more attractive to the opposite sex, scientists have found. Recordings made when fertility was low and again nearer ovulation showed that women's voices took on more feminine qualities as they neared their optimum time for conceiving.
During testing women spoke in a higher pitch when nearer to the time when an egg is released. The difference in pitch was the greatest on the two highest fertility days just before ovulation. The study shows women change their voice in relation to fertility - and possibly only in social communication contexts.
A study of the Hadza people of Tanzania by academics from McMaster University's department of psychology, neuroscience and behaviour showed that men were more attracted to women with higher voices. A higher pitch was associated with subordination, femininity, health and youthfulness. By contrast, women preferred men with deeper voices.
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