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* MusicalInstrumentVoice: A character's voice is actually an instrument.
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* GenderConcealingVoice: Someone changes their voice pitch to conceal their gender.
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* SpeechImpediment: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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* TheEchoer: Someone can only speak by copying another person's words.
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* ResizedVocals: For some reason, being shrunken or grown changes your voice as well.
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* NoisyDuck: A duck is loud and annoying.
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* CongestionSpeak: A character with a stuffy nose has their dialogue written with certain consonants replaced.
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* DyingVocalChange: A character's voice dramatically changes as they die.
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* FlirtyVoicePloy: A character uses a sexy, flirting voice to manipulate someone.
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* VoiceChangeSurprise: A character speaks in a voice that isn't their own, or makes a weird sound, much to their shock.
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* MotorMouth: A character talks extremely fast, sometimes to the point of being unintelligible.
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* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: A character keeps their voice actor even in flashbacks, or younger characters keep their voices in flash-forwards.
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* VoiceOnlyCameo: A cameo role that is only heard and not seen onscreen.
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* ChildLikeVoice: Someone sounds younger than they are.
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* ShiftingVoiceOfMadness: An insane character has an inconsistent speech pattern.
* ShockingVoiceIdentityReveal: A mysterious figure's identity is only revealed when their voice is recognized.
* ShockingVoiceIdentityReveal: A mysterious figure's identity is only revealed when their voice is recognized.
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* InnocentSoprano: The ingenue heroine is almost always a soprano in musical theater.
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* SecretIdentityVocalShift: Changing the sound of your voice in order to protect your secret identity.
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* TheVoice: A character who is heard speaking, but never physically seen.
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* VictoriousRoar: When a character just has to let everyone know they won, they do it LOUDLY!
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* NerdyNasalness: A nerdy character that has a nasally voice.
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* SoftSpokenSadist: A villain with a gentle voice/mannerism, creating an unsettling dissonance.
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When a person speaks, what they actually say comprises only about half of what's being communicated. The tone of their voice, or even the sound of the voice itself, can deliver ''as much or more'' of a message than the actual words being spoken.
These tropes explore the various ways in which different voices, vocal effects, and vocal deliveries affect how we perceive characters, and how they can drastically change the message a quote conveys.
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+ AccentTropes
+ LanguageTropes
+ VoiceActingTropes
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* AltoVillainess: Villainesses sound better with an alto voice.
* ArousedByTheirVoice: A character thinks another character's voice is hot.
* BadassBaritone: Manly badass men speak in baritones.
* BassoProfundo: A voice so deep it'll quiver your liver.
* BeautifulSingingVoice: A character is acknowledged in-universe as having a great singing voice.
* BrokenEcho: Instead of repeating a voice, an echo either refuses to repeat or actually ''replies''.
* CompellingVoice: A voice with a supernatural compulsion to follow its commands.
* ComputerVoice: Computers in fiction often tend to speak with a feminine voice.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Ladies with deeper voices tend to be more {{Badass}} or dangerous than those with higher voices.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: A character is made creepier with an intense high-pitched voice.
* CreepyMonotone: When speaking in a flat, unchanging voice becomes really creepy and off-putting, if not outright terrifying.
* CuteButCacophonic: A small or cute character has a shockingly loud voice.
* DoIReallySoundLikeThat: Somebody is surprised by what a recording of their own voice sounds like.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: Computers that are malfunctioning in some way stutter or develop other speech impediments while speaking.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Evil characters generally speak with much deeper voices than heroes do.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Villains tend to have much harsher, rougher voices than heroes do.
* GutturalGrowler: A character with a deep, harsh, raspy growl for a voice.
* HearingVoices: A character hears disembodied voices due to insanity or supernatural forces.
* HeavyVoice: Characters tend to get deeper, thicker voices upon gaining a large amount of weight.
* HeliumSpeech: A high-pitched voice effect acquired through either inhaling helium before speaking, or by pitch-shifting a voice recording.
* InstantSoprano: {{Groin Attack}}s cause the victim to speak or scream at a higher pitch.
* LarynxDissonance: The fairly uncommon ability to convincingly sound like a person of the opposite gender.
* MachineMonotone: Machines tend to speak in monotone as a reflection of their lack of ability to feel emotion.
* MakeMeWannaShout: A character can shout so hard, their voice serves as a weapon.
* NoIndoorVoice: A character cannot or will not speak quietly, and shouts or near-shouts everything they say.
* PerishingAltRockVoice: A vocal style common in indie rock, characterized by weak, exhausted voice and flattened emotional register.
* PowerEchoes: Obtaining supreme magical powers adds several layers of reverb and echo to your voice.
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: Obtaining incredible supernatural powers makes your voice drop a few octaves for some reason.
* RadioVoice: Voices become distorted in some way whenever characters speak over a communication device.
* SimpletonVoice: A halting, quavering, low-pitched voice that signals stupidity in characters.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: A character's singing voice sounds completely different from their normal speaking voice.
* SssssnakeTalk: Ekssssagerating your esssesss ssso that you sssound like a hisssssing ssssnake.
* TalkLikeAPirate: Arrr, this is when ye talk like ye been sailin' the seven seas in search of plunder!
* VocalDissonance: A character speaks in a voice you would ''not'' expect coming from someone like them.
* VocalRangeExceeded: A person tries to sing outside of their natural range, and their voice cracks.
* VoiceChangeling: A character can perfectly imitate other voices ''without'' changing their physical appearance..
* VoiceOfTheLegion: A character speaks in a reverb-soaked voice full of off-kilter echoes, as though multiple entities are speaking through them at once.
* VoicesAreMental: Characters who swap bodies ''do'' swap voices as well.
* VoicesAreNotMental: Characters who swap bodies ''do not'' swap voices as well.
* VoiceTypes: A primer on the different types of vocal ranges, and types of voices used in opera and musical theatre.
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These tropes explore the various ways in which different voices, vocal effects, and vocal deliveries affect how we perceive characters, and how they can drastically change the message a quote conveys.
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[[index]]
[floatboxright:
See also:
+ AccentTropes
+ LanguageTropes
+ VoiceActingTropes
]
* AltoVillainess: Villainesses sound better with an alto voice.
* ArousedByTheirVoice: A character thinks another character's voice is hot.
* BadassBaritone: Manly badass men speak in baritones.
* BassoProfundo: A voice so deep it'll quiver your liver.
* BeautifulSingingVoice: A character is acknowledged in-universe as having a great singing voice.
* BrokenEcho: Instead of repeating a voice, an echo either refuses to repeat or actually ''replies''.
* CompellingVoice: A voice with a supernatural compulsion to follow its commands.
* ComputerVoice: Computers in fiction often tend to speak with a feminine voice.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Ladies with deeper voices tend to be more {{Badass}} or dangerous than those with higher voices.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: A character is made creepier with an intense high-pitched voice.
* CreepyMonotone: When speaking in a flat, unchanging voice becomes really creepy and off-putting, if not outright terrifying.
* CuteButCacophonic: A small or cute character has a shockingly loud voice.
* DoIReallySoundLikeThat: Somebody is surprised by what a recording of their own voice sounds like.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: Computers that are malfunctioning in some way stutter or develop other speech impediments while speaking.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Evil characters generally speak with much deeper voices than heroes do.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Villains tend to have much harsher, rougher voices than heroes do.
* GutturalGrowler: A character with a deep, harsh, raspy growl for a voice.
* HearingVoices: A character hears disembodied voices due to insanity or supernatural forces.
* HeavyVoice: Characters tend to get deeper, thicker voices upon gaining a large amount of weight.
* HeliumSpeech: A high-pitched voice effect acquired through either inhaling helium before speaking, or by pitch-shifting a voice recording.
* InstantSoprano: {{Groin Attack}}s cause the victim to speak or scream at a higher pitch.
* LarynxDissonance: The fairly uncommon ability to convincingly sound like a person of the opposite gender.
* MachineMonotone: Machines tend to speak in monotone as a reflection of their lack of ability to feel emotion.
* MakeMeWannaShout: A character can shout so hard, their voice serves as a weapon.
* NoIndoorVoice: A character cannot or will not speak quietly, and shouts or near-shouts everything they say.
* PerishingAltRockVoice: A vocal style common in indie rock, characterized by weak, exhausted voice and flattened emotional register.
* PowerEchoes: Obtaining supreme magical powers adds several layers of reverb and echo to your voice.
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: Obtaining incredible supernatural powers makes your voice drop a few octaves for some reason.
* RadioVoice: Voices become distorted in some way whenever characters speak over a communication device.
* SimpletonVoice: A halting, quavering, low-pitched voice that signals stupidity in characters.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: A character's singing voice sounds completely different from their normal speaking voice.
* SssssnakeTalk: Ekssssagerating your esssesss ssso that you sssound like a hisssssing ssssnake.
* TalkLikeAPirate: Arrr, this is when ye talk like ye been sailin' the seven seas in search of plunder!
* VocalDissonance: A character speaks in a voice you would ''not'' expect coming from someone like them.
* VocalRangeExceeded: A person tries to sing outside of their natural range, and their voice cracks.
* VoiceChangeling: A character can perfectly imitate other voices ''without'' changing their physical appearance..
* VoiceOfTheLegion: A character speaks in a reverb-soaked voice full of off-kilter echoes, as though multiple entities are speaking through them at once.
* VoicesAreMental: Characters who swap bodies ''do'' swap voices as well.
* VoicesAreNotMental: Characters who swap bodies ''do not'' swap voices as well.
* VoiceTypes: A primer on the different types of vocal ranges, and types of voices used in opera and musical theatre.
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