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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 6953299" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>The trick to voicing a character of opposite sex or of some wildly different nationality or species is not to try to change the physical characteristics of your voice, but your speech patterns and grammar. It's about mimicking the way the character would speak, and not what they sound like. While you might adjust the volume of your voice, or the force behind it, the real difference comes in the words and phrases the character uses, how often they pause for breath, whether they speak fast or slow, the way they change their manner of speaking depending on who they're addressing, etc...</p><p>That's largely based on sociology and psychology rather than physiology, and thus those characteristics make much more difference than whether it's said in a baritone, a soprano or a falsetto...</p><p></p><p> On the original topic, I generally choose the sex/gender/race/whatever of the character based on whatever makes the concept and/or backstory of the character more <em>interesting</em> or fun to play - whether that may be visually, psychologically or narratively.</p><p> It's much less about my personal preferences than what best serves the character. However, I also tend not to be interested in playing minor variations on a recurring theme, so, because how important that detail may be to the character concept varies wildly from instance to instance. it somewhat diminishes the statistical relevance of how often I play either sex.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 6953299, member: 6750306"] The trick to voicing a character of opposite sex or of some wildly different nationality or species is not to try to change the physical characteristics of your voice, but your speech patterns and grammar. It's about mimicking the way the character would speak, and not what they sound like. While you might adjust the volume of your voice, or the force behind it, the real difference comes in the words and phrases the character uses, how often they pause for breath, whether they speak fast or slow, the way they change their manner of speaking depending on who they're addressing, etc... That's largely based on sociology and psychology rather than physiology, and thus those characteristics make much more difference than whether it's said in a baritone, a soprano or a falsetto... On the original topic, I generally choose the sex/gender/race/whatever of the character based on whatever makes the concept and/or backstory of the character more [I]interesting[/I] or fun to play - whether that may be visually, psychologically or narratively. It's much less about my personal preferences than what best serves the character. However, I also tend not to be interested in playing minor variations on a recurring theme, so, because how important that detail may be to the character concept varies wildly from instance to instance. it somewhat diminishes the statistical relevance of how often I play either sex. [/QUOTE]
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