When you read, what does the voice in your head sound like?

Question

Okay, so maybe that sounds crazy, but here's what i'm trying to say: Sometimes when you read, you can hear a voice inside. It is the voice that gives life to characters in a story book, and it is the voice that recreates the voices of those you care about/know when you read or remember something.

But here's the real question: When you read to yourself, such as a paper you wrote, do you hear your own voice, or do you hear a voice you've never heard before? The voice of your love, or the voice of the movie announcer guy?

Just curious!

Answer 1

I don't really know.

Sometimes I think there isn't one at all, and when I carefully read something to find out, I do 'hear' words in my head... sometimes I feel like I'm half hearing it - faintly, kind of there but not there, with no specific thing that rings 'my own voice' or male or female... I'm confusing myself.



But I do talk to myself in my head a lot. When I'm making up some scene for fun - say a pig learns to fly - I'll speak in my head like you'd write a story, and sometimes I'll suddenly stop when I can't get the word choice right.



I also talk to myself when my mom's yelling at me and I want to say something back but I can't :P. Well, I kind of talk to her, but in my head. In that instance, I'd say I think my voice is my own speaking.



Very interesting, anyway. XD

Answer 2

Reading Voice In Head

Answer 3

I Hear a Average voice a Generic voice almost except when a character is talking at that point a voice of an actor i think could play the role in a movie takes over.

Answer 4

Ah see In cases like these I picture whomever it was I imagined while writing the item. Though I don't hear voices only I actually sort of zone out and physically see everything that's happening which is why waving a hand in front of my face is not going to work, because I can't see you. Unless of course they cover the book with their hands but that usually results in them getting stabbed mysteriously by a pencil (hehe). The voices are all different. It depends on the description of the character as to what they sound like.



e.g. A big brawny guy is going to have a deep voice unless it says otherwise.

Answer 5

If I'm reading Harry potter - Jk rowling or Jim Dale. Until the characters talk.. Then I hear the actors from the movies speaking.



When I write I hear myself. If I'm reading from the back of the dvd cover of something like that then it's also my voice.



I try to match the voice with actors that look similar to how the characters are described.

Answer 6

I hear my own voice - my everyday talking voice when I read questions and other stuff. But when I read a book, their personality helps my mind shape a voice into my head, even though their voice could sound completely different, that's just how my crazy mind works.

Answer 7

When I read something I wrote, I often think of my own voice. Unless my voice doesn't suit it. Then I compose of a voice that suits it. When I read, I can actually put myself into the main character's shoes and see everything and hear everything they do. My mind composes of voices that I think would sound like the person. I think that's a unique question, btw. :)

Answer 8

I'm with littlesallyrackett on this one (good user name by the way) as I don't have the voice in my head thing either. I don't have that kind of conversion process, if you see what I mean. I read the words and I understand them; I don't need to mentally hear them. If it's dialogue I can imagine what the characters could sound like, but I don't imagine a voice for the narrator or for non-fiction or anything like that. If I try to, it makes my reading feel awkward and unnatural for me.

Answer 9

There isn't one. I don't have that 'voice' thing at all when I'm reading. A lot of people say there must be, but there isn't. I can imagine characters' voices, but I don't hear a voice when I read something that isn't characters speaking.



People have told me that's quite odd on my part, and that most people do 'hear' a voice when they read - but I don't.

Answer 10

@e.l. Not fair. I wish mine turned into a British accent, even though I'm American.



My voice changes whenever I have to read a male's dialogue. I attempt to make it deep. I try to be as enthusiastic and into the book as possible with my voice.

Answer 11

I don't usually hear a voice unless it's a paper, then I always hear my English teacher's voice, no matter what class, as if he'll stop me telepathically and fix my grammar.

Answer 12

When I read my own work and words other than dialogue, it's my own voice. Dialogue, on the other hand, is just a voice created by me.

Answer 13

Like Clint Eastwood. Mamma Mia!



Hahahahaha! :D

In all seriousness, though, it's the same voice I hear when I speak aloud. Not my actual voice, just the one between my ears. (:

Answer 14

it really depends.

if the author identifies how a person is speaking, it's like the voice in my head changes to suit it, but otherwise, it's just an unidentified natural voice.

Answer 15

Unremarkable. I've never paid much attention to it, and come to think of it, I don't think I even wholly articulate printed words as I read them. It's more of an absorption of the general tone, and temper of what's being said, and the message being conveyed, and reacting to that.

Answer 16

for me, i try to imagine the most possible voice and apply that to the character. it works for me haha. but if i read my own paper i just... read it?

Answer 17

It's an average American voice (I think New York accent?), which is strange because I am British. I think I watch too much American TV.

Answer 18

Mine sounds like Ringo Starr.

Answer 19

I hear my own voice.

Answer 20

It's hard to explain. It's me... but not. Whenever I try to focus on it, it turns right into me but I can tell it's something else.

Answer 21

I never really thought about that! Well, myself I guess.



Answer mine:

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Answer 22

it's hard to explain. you understand it and think it, but don't really hear anything.

Answer 23

my own

Answer 24

me