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New Pretty accurate for me.
Your Result: The Midland


"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.


I've been told by several of the people I speak with over the phone that I have a radio voice. One of them slipped up and said "Oh, it's Don with the sexy..., oops. I meant to say radio voice". I thanked her for the compliment and told her she made my day.
I was raised in Illinois and a few of "those big southern cities".
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New US Radio accent.
I heard from a Tennessee TV Producer many years ago that there is a specific accent nation-wide broadcaster like to use. I don't think he said where he naturally occurs but I read somewhere later that it occurs around the Indiana/Ohio area.

Wade.
"Don't give up!"
New It's the Johnny Carson accent.
If you saw any old Tonight shows, that was it. I'm pretty sure he was born and/or raised in Iowa.
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New Re: US Radio accent.
I think 'radio voice' here is more than learning some idea of a a regional/neutral? accent. A cohort had been an announcer.. periodically we'd say, "OK Don - give us that in your radio voice.." His voice would drop a few semitones and slow. People who teach diction, like 'enry 'iggins, employ a large vocabulary which includes 'projection' and other intricacies of voice production (singers also know all about that.)

OTOH, my perception of the BBC newsreaders heard across the years - is not so much about such a special projection as - some consensus that the (present-) Queen's English style [high English == associated with the Peerage more than the Commons] is officially the accent to be emulated. That's not a special way of projecting the voice, though - as I hear and compare.

I used to play with that a bit too, when making certain PA announcements (especially dire ones like, "This is Not a drill - we ARE clearing the building! ... NOW! KID!") As with all masquerades of pomp & circumstance - fun.


I seem to have misplaced my General Patton approximation, though :-/





New Radio voice and radio accent are different.
A 'radio voice' means a voice that works well on broadcast radio, including those tinny portable AM radios. Any voice can be improved towards a radio voice with suitable vocal training.

A 'radio accent' is a bit different. The BBC is known to have it's own distinctive accent preferred for national broadcasts, in the past called [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_English|BBC English]. The Tennessee TV producer I mentioned before called it TV accent, which meant something essentially neutral and understandable by the whole country.

Wade.
"Don't give up!"
Expand Edited by static Nov. 17, 2006, 12:25:07 AM EST
New Its projection and diction.
You need to be able to project your voice...most guys do that by going baritone...buts its not always necessary.

The key, though, is diction. Being precise with pronunciation when saying things like the letter w. Most pronounce that dublyou (for lack of a better way to make the point) but a radio announcer will spend time (I know I did) learning to distinctly say double---you)...its important for call signs on the east coast...and while training myself to say it wished I was out west where they start with K)

As far as accent, the training was to "speak like you are from nowhere". So, for those with accents, which is most of the country, that equates to speaking as a mideasterner (ohio, illinios, indiana) where, in general, the accent is fairly neutral. Even there, though, there are tendencies to partially drop final vowels (Ohigh as opposed to O hi O) and so saying the radio voice is a mideastern accent is also a bit problematic.

All I know is what little hick accent I had left after moving back from europe was completely gone after my first 6 months in radio. And that made me happy.
Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry.Adrian Belew
New Dubbayou irks me to no end.
But of course, I grew up in a radio station, listening to my dad get bent out of shape when one of his announcers couldn't pronounce the letter properly. :-)
Regards,

-scott anderson

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New Enunciation, too, as you said.
Singers are taught to clearly enunciate the words, too. It means things like 'left - to' rather than 'leff-to'. It takes a practice and a little concentration to get it right enough that it doesn't sound odd. Oddly enough, I think singing makes it easier because you can't slow down to do it! :-)

Wade.
"Don't give up!"
New Yep. Singing helps with the word stuffs.
I think my time in choir during grade school was well spent even though I didn't think so at the time.

Ahem. Why yes. I was the soloist for O Tannenbaum in third grade thank you very much.
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     another silly online quiz - (rcareaga) - (31)
         Dead On - (jbrabeck)
         The Northeast (I'm British) -NT - (warmachine)
         its a crock - (boxley)
         Re: another silly online quiz - (Yendor) - (1)
             ROFL - got the same - (imric)
         Northeast. - (a6l6e6x)
         Nowhere enough questions (or the right kind) to judge. - (Andrew Grygus)
         north central - (Steve Lowe)
         Northeast - (tuberculosis)
         Pretty accurate for me. - (Silverlock) - (8)
             US Radio accent. - (static) - (7)
                 It's the Johnny Carson accent. - (Silverlock)
                 Re: US Radio accent. - (Ashton) - (5)
                     Radio voice and radio accent are different. - (static)
                     Its projection and diction. - (bepatient) - (3)
                         Dubbayou irks me to no end. - (admin)
                         Enunciation, too, as you said. - (static) - (1)
                             Yep. Singing helps with the word stuffs. - (Silverlock)
         Philly - (crazy)
         Wow, I'm the one IN Philly - (bepatient)
         My Australian accent comes out as "The Northeast" -NT - (Meerkat) - (1)
             Ditto likewise. -NT - (static)
         Midland - (imqwerky)
         Pegged me for Philly - (drewk)
         Inland North - (Another Scott) - (2)
             Amen, Brutha! - (imqwerky)
             On a world-wide version, it would have trouble with me. - (static)
         The West, eh? And since we're on the topic of quizzes... - (lister) - (2)
             as an occational visitor 58% where do you get pizza? -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                 Pizza Pizza according to the quiz - (lister)
         Inland North - (admin)

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