tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322097819850058517.post2570879856122961502..comments2023-06-12T04:32:03.116-07:00Comments on Pictures/Thoughts: The Sound of the VoiceRebbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08117210892683574784noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322097819850058517.post-55680112576885813902012-08-15T08:06:23.799-07:002012-08-15T08:06:23.799-07:00In due time, I will post my voice, Vincent, but fo...In due time, I will post my voice, Vincent, but for my piece it will have to be in my American voice. : )<br />I have a recorder that can connect to my computer and the file transferred, but I will have to originate it at the othe spot I blog and the provide the long. That's the easiest way I've found. YouTube has become so clunky; I don't have the patience. <br /><br />Ah...I do remember seeing bits of My Fair Lady. Thanks for sharing the two clips. Yes, the second one does sound like a parody. <br /><br />These first two were shared by someone else. I love Alan Rickman's voice.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06qrlwQNdpo&feature=youtube_gdata_player<br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlVPzf5rjxA&feature=youtube_gdata_player<br /><br />Opening scene from the movie, Rebecca. First three minutes after about one minute of credits. I don't know exactly where her accent falls. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkraCshPB4w&feature=youtube_gdata_player<br /><br />I got a kick out of this clip of Peter Seller's attempt to show a small range of British accents.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLsVh6Qrpew&feature=youtube_gdata_player<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Rebbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08117210892683574784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322097819850058517.post-44783056329593877532012-08-13T20:15:03.337-07:002012-08-13T20:15:03.337-07:00I would love to hear your spoken voice reading out...I would love to hear your spoken voice reading out that piece. If you have a microphone, you can record it and process for YouTube, just the sound. But you would have to do it in your impression of a British English voice! <br /><br />There is a vast spectrum of British voices with quite extreme regional variations. This of course was the theme of George Bernard Shaw’s play <i>Pygmalion</i>, which became the musical <i>My Fair Lady</i>: that a pretty Cockney girl could go anywhere in society if she were taught to speak “properly”, that is, in the manner of educated people.<br /><br />I wonder if you refer to the accent which is only acquired from going to a very good private school, followed by Oxford or Cambridge? I have two favourite examples: Bridget Kendall, a BBC foreign correspondent <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPt1J8zIX9E" rel="nofollow">(try this clip)</a>; and Brian Sewell, whose accent <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3G618-hxgA" rel="nofollow"> - try this - </a>sounds like a parody of the real thing.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com