[Dallas59]

Good Example Here

[Dallas59]

You can hear it at the end of each sentence.

[thecodont]

That link features the voice of the dreadful “Powered by TellMe” robot agent at the toll-free customer service phone numbers of some major companies. It’s very grating and annoying.

I end up screaming “AGENT!” at it to dismiss it and get a real live person to speak to me.

[hinckley buzzard]

They're right. Now that I know what it is, I recognize hearing it all the time and yes, especially from women. What's up? Do they think it's sexy? When Kenny Rogers did it in his songs the women seemed to like it.

[Hot Tabasco]

Good Example Here

You're kidding, right? That made as much sense as the calculus class I flunked in high school........

[null and void]

Slightly better that the rising lilt at the end of every statement making it sound like a question?

[Mariner]

That girl is nearly impossible to listen to.

[Revolting cat!]

Ugh!

[A_perfect_lady]

OMG... I do this. I do this all the time. Half of what I say comes out like this, at least if I'm not trying to project my voice across the room. If I'm speaking in my normal tone of voice, it's very low, very quiet, and fried like an egg. I never even noticed.

But when I think about it, I remember George Elliot's description of one of her characters in Middlemarch: Cynthia, Dorothea's younger sister. Her voice is described as flat, staccato, and gutteral. That's how I talk, and my face is usually expressionless, rather like Cynthia's. I think it might just be a character trait. Maybe there are more of us in America now because we are no longer being burned as witches. LOL!