History Main / RadioVoice

* An almost meta-example: the FiresignTheater regularly used these sorts of techniques for their many [[ShowWithinAShow Shows within a Show]] on their radio show and their albums. {{Lampshaded}} when Nick Danger (Third Eye) is asking himself a series of questions about the mystery he's trying to solve, and ends with: "and how do I make my voice sound like that?"

* The voice of Korben Dallas' Taxi in ''TheFifthElement'' sounds like a late 90s speech synthesizer. And radio/television communications are hardly better (though you wouldn't be able to tell with [[UncleTomFoolery Ruby Rhod]] anyway).

* Particularly bad in the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' featured movie ''MonsterAGoGo'', prompting Crow to riff "take the kazoo out of your mouth!" and "They're talking to Charlie Brown's mom!".

* ''Honey Pie'' by TheBeatles, for the single line "Now she's hit the big time!"

* The new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' may be an instance in which [[JustifiedTrope this trope is justified]]; except for having artificial gravity and the jump drive (which is, admittedly, a ''big'' "except"), their tech isn't any more advanced than real life, and this troper at least can hear the distortion on, e.g., her cell phone.

** And of course Tali's voice [[TwentyFourHourArmor always]] has a slight buzz to it.

** The old BSG (iirc) and StarWars' Rebel Alliance fighters (definitely) had the same effect for their military radio comms. It's a close simulation of the actual sound of single sideband radio, as still used by ham operators today, and military voice comms a few decades ago. Besides the "telephone filter" there is a slight, and changing, pitch shift. Note too that the new BSG calls it "wireless," not "radio," and that their "civilian" radio does not have the SSB effect. Speaking of new BSG tech, while they have computers (with image enhancement software) they don't seem to have television. Hm, maybe the latter explains how they had time to invent jump drives and artificial gravity!

*** Television was present on the twelve colonies (Baltar did an interview just before the original attack). Its likely that after the attack and while on the run, there were just no adequate facilities for a TV production and/or there weren't a lot of [=TVs=] that were brought along anyway.

* In the radio version of {{The Shadow}}, the audio cue for "Lamont's turned invisible now" was the same filter used for "This character is talking over the telephone". Which somewhat limited the scriptwriters -- Lamont Cranston could ''get'' phone calls from other characters, but could only ''call'' other characters (and be heard over the line from their [=POV=]) as The Shadow.

* {{Space Marine}}s in the ''{{Warhammer 40000}}: DawnOfWar'' series.

* Virtually all communication in ''[[RedVsBlue Red vs. Blue]]'' is conducted over radio, even when the characters speaking are standing in front of each other. Rooster Teeth tried to remove the effect at one point, but [[TheCoconutEffect fans expected it there]], so they put it back in.

* Parodied in ''HighAnxiety'', when Mel Brooks asks his secretary to repeat her intercom message without holding her nose. She replies in a perfectly normal voice.

* ''StarTrek'', all series. [[TeleportersAndTransporters Beam living people from one place to another?]] Check! [[HolodeckMalfunction Perfect the fully immersive, utterly realistic holodeck?]] Check? Build a communicator that can transmit sound with better quality than an FM radio? Still on the to-do list.
* The new ''BattlestarGalactica'' may be an instance in which [[JustifiedTrope this trope is justified]]; except for having artificial gravity and the jump drive (which is, admittedly, a ''big'' "except"), their tech isn't any more advanced than real life, and this troper at least can hear the distortion on, e.g., her cell phone.

** Mel Books also parodied this trope in ''{{Spaceballs}}''; specifically, the "jammed radar" scene featuring Michael Winslow as the Spaceball manning the radar station.

** Something that infuriates this troper to no end: one local radio station always cuts the song off during this segment, like the computer they have is programmed to toss in a new song at a perceived fadeout.
*** Live they would sometimes have the main riff of Wish You Were Here played on an actual radio.

This may be simply to serve the RuleOfPerception, because otherwise we might get confused as to who's where. Technically speaking, it's also actually plausible: not only transmitting only 3000 Hz worth of voice signal is ''far'' easier than transmitting 22000 Hz regardless of what transmission medium or method is being used, but when the only thing that matters is the speech itself and not so much the audio quality, transmitting with near-verbatim quality is pointless and superfluous. This may also be explainable in-Verse as a user interface feature; the fictional designers of the fictional system may have felt it was useful to be able to distinguish radio voices from the voices of people present in the room.

* Ben's various forms in the original ''{{Ben 10}}'' series were typically voiced by different voice actors than human Ben. For the bulk of the series, the only exception was the technology-based alien form, Upgrade, who spoke with Ben's voice with the RadioVoice distortion effect.

* Used in the ''StarWars'' movies, in particular the first movie with the attack on the Death Star, where the distortion was [[strike: heavy]] filtered through what sounded like a single sideband transmitter. The StarWarsExpandedUniverse noted that this was deliberate on the part of the Rebellion, as it helped disguise who was talking.

* Used in the ''DoctorWho'' episode "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead", when Charlotte watches what's going on on the TV. Particularly notable because [[SorryILeftTheBGMOn the background music]] is similarly treated, suggesting her observation of the library comes with its own chase-scene music.

* {{THX1138}}. And how.

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* The in-head cyber-telepathy used in all ''GhostInTheShell'' media (except manga, obviously) recycles a distinctive filter set from TheMovie. It's basically just a spatializer, designed to make the sound seem far away, in a way different from a standard reverb or echo.
* Used in ''{{Pretear}}'' for all of the scenes that allow us to listen to [[ShowWithinAShow Sasame's "Words Gate" radio show]]. Particularly notable is when Mawata is listening to a recording of his show, only for her player to run out of batteries as Sasame's voice comes in loud and clear to repeat what he said on the show--in person.

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*** Television was present on the twelve colonies (Baltar did an interview just before the original attack). Its likely that after the attack and while on the run, there were just no adequate facilities for a TV production and/or there weren't a lot of TVs that were brought along anyway.

* Particularly bad in the {{MST3K}} featured movie ''Monster-A-Go-Go'', prompting Crow to riff "take the kazoo out of your mouth!" and "They're talking to Charlie Brown's mom!".