Voice Descriptions

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A- Abrasive, acidic, adenoidal, airy, animated, anxious, authoritative.

B- Barbed, barely audible, baritone, barking, bass, big, blade, bombastic, bored, boyish, bitter, bland, bleak, blunt, booming, brash, braying, breathy, breezy, bright, brisk, brittle, broken, bubbly, burbling.

C- Calm, caustic, casual, cheery/cheerful, childish, chirping, choked, clear, clipped, cloying, coarse, cold cool, complacent, contented, contralto, cracked/cracking, creaky, croaking, crisp, crooning, curt, cultured, cynical.

D- Deep, devoid of emotion, discordant, dispirited, drawling, dreamy, dry, dulcent, dull.

E- Earnest, easy.

F- Falsetto, faint, feathery, feeble, firm, flat, fierce, forceful, fretful.

G- Gentle, girlish, glum, goofy, grating, grave, gravely/like gravel, grim, growling, gruff, guttural.

H- Hard, harsh, hateful, hearty, hesitant, high/high pitched, hissing, hoarse, honeyed, hushed, husky.

I- Immense, indifferent, insinuating, intense, ironic.

J- Jubilant.

L- Lazy, lifeless, light, lilting, lively loud, loving, low/low pitched.

M- Matter-of-fact, mellifluous, melodious, mild, mocking, monotonous, muffled, musical, muted.

N- Nasal, nasty, neutral, nonchalant.

O- Obsequious, oily.

P- Piercing, piping, polished.

Q- Quavering, querulous, quiet.

R- Ragged, rasping, raucous, raw, reedy, refined, resonant, ringing, roaring, robust, rough, rumbling.

S- Saccharine, sarcastic, savage, scornful, scratchy, screeching, serene, severe, shaky, sharp, shrill, sibilant, silken/like silk, silly, silvery, sincere, sing-song, sleek, sluggish, slurring, sly, small, smarmy, smoky, smooth, snide, soft, solid, somber, sonorous, soothing, soprano, sour, spacey/spaced out, stark, steely, stiff, stout, strained, strident, stony, suave, suggestive, surly, squeaky, squealing, sugary, sweet, sympathetic.

T- Tart, teasing, thick, thin, throaty, thunderous/like thunder, tight, tender, tense, trembling, tremulous, trilling.

U- Uncertain, unctuous, unsteady.

V- Vague, velvet/velvety.

W- Warm, wavering, weak, weary, wheezy, whiny, wistful.

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