Marda.Anderson@p0.f4.n393.z1.fidonet.org (Marda Anderson) (03/02/90)
Index Number: 7041
You know something, Laurie? I'll let you in on a little secret.
(grin) Hearing people do the same thing. Sometimes when we get
excited, our voices get louder and/or higher in pitch and we don't
realize it. It's amazing, too, how people speak at such different
levels. Sometimes, a child learns at a young age that he/she has to
speak loudly to get attention so then that carries over. Some people I
know speak very loudly on the phone, even though they may not in
person. Hearing people also have difficulty in really knowing how
loudly they are speaking or how their voices sound to others, though of
course, it's not the same thing. But that's partly why most people
don't like the sound of their voice on a tape recorder. It sounds so
different than it does in our heads. Of course, as I said, it's
nowhere near the same because hearing people do get a lot of feedback
on their pronunciation and so on and they can get a general idea of hwo
loudly they are talking. But it is interesting.
marda
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Internet: Marda.Anderson@p0.f4.n393.z1.fidonet.orgAnn.Parsons@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Parsons) (03/03/90)
Index Number: 7057
<"From: dmimi@uncecs.edu (Mimi Clifford)
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<"One suggestion that I got about how to tell when you are speaking
<"too loudly when you can't hear yourself was to pay attention to
<"the sensations from your throat as you speak. And, indeed, it is
<"possible to feel the level of your voice when it become louder.
<"It seemed so obvious, once it was mentioned! On the other hand, I
<"have trouble remembering to feel my voice. Ah, well--
Hi Mimi,
Why not keep doing as you are, but ask your friends to remind you when you are
speaking too loudly? I ask folks to tell me if I am wearing the wrong colors,
after all. What are friends for?
Take care, see you on-line.
Ann P.
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Internet: Ann.Parsons@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.orgspr@cs.brown.edu (Loretta Reiss) (03/06/90)
Index Number: 7067 My personal impression of how late-deafened people regulate the volume of their voices is a little different. I suspect that the problem is not that people do not know how loud their voices are, but that they do not know how much ambient noise is in the room. Some computer workstations with fans inside create a 50 dB background, for example. A hearing person working in an office with one of these adjusts his voice unconsciously to speak over it. Another office might look the same, but be a lot quieter. As people trying to build computer speech recognizers have noted, we are hardly aware of a lot of background noise and manage to ignore it and speak differently to be understood by other persons in a noisy room. My impression is that my late-deafened friends speak appropriately given what they know about the environment. It is not that they do not have control of the loudness of their voices, but that they need to know that they are standing next to a noisy machine or that the room is very quiet and everyone is whispering or that the car has a broken muffler. --Loretta Reiss
Ann.Stalnaker@f14.n385.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Stalnaker) (03/16/90)
Index Number: 7183
I think we all talk too loudly from time to time whether it be in anger
or excitement, etc. I usually don't speak loud enough as I have a
very low voice. I don't let these things bother me...but guess that's
ME, very mundane ME! (grin)
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Internet: Ann.Stalnaker@f14.n385.z1.fidonet.orgVixen.*@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Vixen *) (03/22/90)
Index Number: 7250
Hi Loretta,
I am a late hearing impaired person who sometimes loses my
realization of how loud or soft I am speaking. However, I find that
for me, it is all relevent to how much ambient noise is going on.
Also, when I am excited or very happy, I tend to speak REALLY LOUD
at times.
Since a much lesser amount of ambient noise is more difficult for
me to deal with than a non HI person, I often don't realize I don't
have to speak as loudly as I do at times. For the most part, I do
well though.
Also, since I am HI with hearing, my own voice often sounds distant
to me, and I tend to want to speak up even though I may already be
speaking at an adequate volume.
It's a funny thing, of people "that I know", the HI with hearing
have more problems with speaking too loudly than those with
profound loss.
Keepin' the faith!
. Vixen
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