The Color of Your Voice

[gold stinger]

Re: The Color of Your Voice

please link me to your catbug videos I haven't seen your catbug videos.

[Toxophilis]

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im interested to see what colors people get

i know im lime green and charu is peach

[basicdrummerman]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0UgoxC9A5d3

it always makes me sad to hear how not deep my voice is D:

[Nyokou]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s1HpQqIOfivG

[yo man im awesome]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s15VJ6P0yk0b

edit: Mine is only 8 seconds but 100% worth

[Mahou]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s1zYs7bc1D07

[YoshL]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0YNdYfz6dsI

[25thhour]

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I have a fully blind friend who uses color to describe voices that she hears. Its quite remarkable that even though she has never seen before in her life, she can describe everyones voice with a distinct color, which is how she remembers who is talking.

Mine has been described as dark purple.

[blindreper1179]

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That's awesome, but how does she know what colors look like to the name?

[Guilhermeziat]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Q7n5d0WFw5

Ft. really really good joke about colors you'll die laughing HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Edit: 5 bucks Eze's color will be white

[choof]

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That's awesome, but how does she know what colors look like to the name?

there are so many intricacies to voices; every voice is unique. I'd imagine you could distinguish your mom's voice from someone else's that might be similar; imagine that amplified by 1000

[blindreper1179]

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That doesn't help answer how she knows purple is purple.

[choof]

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personification

[rushyrulz]

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That doesn't help answer how she knows purple is purple.

I don't think a person who can see could possibly begin to fathom how a totally blind person interprets color. But there is an interpretation, and it's very, very different from your interpretation. As a person who can see and who could not possibly begin to fathom how a totally blind person interprets color, I will take a stab at how I think it works...

Color is a visual construct, thus cannot be truly understood by someone who cannot see. But color is a pretty common topic if you associate with non-blind individuals, so naturally you learn to make connections between color and emotion .. or smell .. or sound .. or other sensory perception. (Example the sound of a fireplace makes you think of what color? Red? Orange? Yellow? How about the feel of something hot? Probably red right? If you closed your eyes and put your hand near a hot stovetop you would most likely imagine in your head a "red" hot surface. Similarly with cold things, you would imagine lighter blues and whites perhaps a bit of purple. A few examples I can think of off the top of my head that associate color with non-visual senses: (Think of what color you associate for each example and highlight the whited out text to see if your answer matches mine.)

The taste of tomato soup : Red
The smell of a lemon: yellow
The feel of a cool breeze: light blue
Hot sand underneath your feet: orange/gold
Pain: Red
Safety: Blue
Fear: Red
Joy: Yellow

Your answers may have differed from mine, but that's okay because none of these things actually have a color, it's just a color you have associated with it. This, I believe, is how a blind person interprets color. They don't have a visual representation of color, so they only have the other four senses and emotions to interpret them. When I say the word yellow you can picture the color yellow in your mind, where a blind person might feel joy or feel the sun on their skin instead of visualizing the color yellow like you would immediately do, but they can tell you that a tomato is red and the sun is yellow without giving it a second thought. Blind people have lived their entire lives interpreting color this way.

It is because of this, I believe, that certain sounds such as a person's voice can remind a blind person of a particular color even if they have never seen color before.

Disclaimer: I probably have no idea what I'm talking about but hopefully this helps explain my point of view on it???

[choof]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s1fdw1q1ZEtr

edit: two more seconds http://vocaroo.com/i/s03CwEu01WTP

really the only thing I can say about this is "imagine the michelin man with chocolate marshmallows in his mouth"

a muddled, bubbling brown, like a bubbling swamp.