Best And Worst Speaking Voices

[DominionSeraph]

Orikasa Fumiko voicing Rukia.

 

[911paramedic]

Fran Drescher = nails on chalkboard

 

[Rudee]

Sounds like the OP has a bizarre "voice" fetish.

 

[olds]

Best: oldsmoboat
When I teach, I make the girls wet.

 

[brblx]

Sounds like the OP has a bizarre "voice" fetish.

i didn't quite hear you. lick your lips first then whisper it into my ear in the voice of seth mcfarlane.

 

[Fayd]

Orikasa Fumiko voicing Rukia.

Sawashiro Miyuki, voicing Maria.


and of course, Wakamoto Norio... voicing...anything.

 

[Fayd]

You forgot to capitalize everything.

I only got this after you said that.

but yes, Brian Blessed. best male english voice actor.

EDIT: If this is true, then it's a good reason to get a tomtom gps device over any other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMiLQwKLSQM

 

[eits]

i gotta say that i think stanley tucci has an amazing speaking voice

 

[IronWing]

Also best, the announcer in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE-ycqs0gPc

 

[Dr. Pelican]

Sounds like the OP has a bizarre "voice" fetish.

That might be right. I find this topic quite fascinating. I see threads like these all the time on forums like these.

 

[Dr. Pelican]

Also best, the announcer in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE-ycqs0gPc

Yes. Exactly how I like voices, especially speaking in a foreign language. Somehow, if a guy from, say, Africa or India, has a deep booming voice like that, it's utterly badass. Check this out. The narrator is known as Suresh Oberoi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLSgmtpAWOY

 

[OVerLoRDI]

What an incredible amount of effort on the part of the OP.

For serious

 

[Patrick Wolf]

I like Ken Watanabe.

 

[Dr. Pelican]

Anyone else?

 

[Arkaign]

It's almost a crime that Sir Anthony Hopkins hasn't been mentioned yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBkhqvwdyNo

He puts such nuance and subtle texture in there, without overdoing it. I could listen to him read the phone book honestly.

 

[bignateyk]

How can you make a list of great speaking voices and not have Morgan Freeman on it?

 

[darkewaffle]

tl;dr

the guy who did the narrator in Bastion.

 

[Lummex]

Glad you mentioned Seth Macfarlane. I kind of want to marry him, partly because of his sexy voice.

 

[flvinny521]

Great voice: Mike Patton
Terrible voice: Michael Jackson

 

[SamQuint]

Best
Morgan Freeman
James Earl Jones
Kevin Costner
Chick Hearn
Vin Scully



Worst
Huell Howser
Rosanne Barr
Britney Spears
and anyone that says "ya know what I'm sayin" after everything they say

 

[cronos]

I have the worst speaking voice I know :thumbsdown:

 

[JulesMaximus]

George Takei

Oh my!

 

[arcenite]

Seth MacFarlane voids your whole list.

 

[Dr. Pelican]

It's almost a crime that Sir Anthony Hopkins hasn't been mentioned yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBkhqvwdyNo

He puts such nuance and subtle texture in there, without overdoing it. I could listen to him read the phone book honestly.

It's not so much his voice that's amazing (although it's good, in my opinion) as it is his elocution and delivery. In terms of delivery, diction, and elocution, he makes the list in addition to George Takei, Sam Donaldson, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, and myself, in fact. I consider myself to have a very unique delivery.

 

[Dr. Pelican]

How can you make a list of great speaking voices and not have Morgan Freeman on it?

Oh, yes, I like his voice too. Very clipped and full of character. Among African-Americans, better than those black tough guys that shout and swear all the time a la Samuel L. Jackson in my opinion. And I still rather like Jackson's voice. Just goes to show.