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by dividedbyzero
1889 days ago
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Is that true, though? If there's automotive traffic or construction work going on, possibly, but any public space with lots of women and (especially) children won't be quiet in the high frequencies. I nonscientifically believe the booming male voices were a lot more effective at being understood and commanding attention over the din at public swimming pools back when I used to spend summers there. They also sometimes have a grumpy old guy do announcements in public transports here in case of major incidents, and I find he's much easier to understand at times than the disembodied female voice they otherwise use. Seems like subway trains and trams produce a lot of high-pitched noise. There's also this thing with having a "soft voice", that's something much more often attributed to women than men (IME – can't remember hearing that said about a man, like, ever). But in a relatively quiet environment, I pretty much never notice any difference in loudness, nor on recordings, and it's definitely not a shyness thing. But they still get drowned out much, much easier in public spaces than my own male voice, and it's visibly frustrating having to almost scream to just be understood while I can talk normally. That was a pretty regular thing during lunch break for a while when I worked in a team with several women who had that issue. And finally, while I may be really weird in that regard and everyone else here just processes content and not the voice that's talking, but female and male voices really do have very different emotional coloring for me. I think my native country is still a bit behind when it comes to ubiquitous disembodied female voices, but I'll readily believe it works, and I don't have difficulty imagining the emotional part of the message hinges at least partly on its femininity. |
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The "soft spoken" is used for men.