The Color of Your Voice

[Kawaii025]

Re: The Color of Your Voice

hot damn kawaii when I hear your voice I picture that business blonde with the glasses that everyone wants to ask out.

o///o

[drizzleRomanceGirl]

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Listening to my own voice and recording it is nerve-wrecking for me. I don't know how so many of you sound comfortable while recording yourself. I'm glad I still posted something, though.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1eOfnMQ3byC

[MyNameIsNothing]

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mic quality too strong.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ZPUmqnbzRG

[25thhour]

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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???

Basically! I have asked my friend to describe things and she can't but if you give her say a cotton ball, and she feels it and you tell her it is like the clouds she can visualize the color white. Same with heat, she interprets it as a red. With voices, she does it so she can distinguish voices apart from one another. There can be 4 people talking to her who all sound similar and she can distinguish each and every voice. Its actually quite remarkable how she does it, and I am always intrigued.

[Guilhermeziat]

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Listening to my own voice and recording it is nerve-wrecking for me. I don't know how so many of you sound comfortable while recording yourself. I'm glad I still posted something, though.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1eOfnMQ3byC

this is really really really loud. rip headphone users

[drizzleRomanceGirl]

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this is really really really loud. rip headphone users

Oops, maybe my laptop's volume was turned up too high. I'll make sure to lower it next time.

[EzExZeRo7497]

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a deep rumbling purple, the words that end in "s" sounds cut a bit into the color with a lighter purple. that affects the visuals stronger than the constant static, maybe because it's more strongly affected by the static itself. the lower bits get dangerously close to shadowy levels of purple, the threshold between dark purple/blue and black

Purple/dark variants of blue are my favourite colours so \o/

[FoJaR]

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i tried recording something but there was a really loud and annoying buzz the whole time so i gave up.

[rushyrulz]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0z1P37jj2Fs

[gold stinger]

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especially robotomy

[25thhour]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s12rri8cn6q7

for shits and gigs here see if your color matches my blind friends

[Vares]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s1w0tW0eUeFu

[AlexDest]

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0XywCnxhlB1

[choof]

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What is the color of your own voice?

grey because I hate myself

[EzExZeRo7497]

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Curious to know what connotations you have for each colour (if any), I think it'd be nice to include that as well once you see what colour a person's voice has.