Husky Voices

[lankeela]

People with husky voices on tv programmes and adverts - what makes their voices like that? i would be worried they had something wrong with them. There is one now on A Place In The Sun, a Scottish accent but very husky. They also seem to be used in lot of adverts, do people think it is attractive - if so I am missing something.

[Old_Geezer]

Too much smoking.

[NoMercy]

I had to laugh the other day when the OH was watching the Darts on telly. The chap calling the scores sounded like a big angry walrus with laryngitis.

[Buenchico]

The guy who I think of as my son (long story) has always had a rather husky voice, even when he was a very young child. It's probably just due to natural variations in the shape of people's larynxes (unless, as O_G suggests, something has damaged their larynxes later in life).

Husky/croaky voices don't seem to have harmed the careers of people like Rod Stewart and Jimmy Nail.

[goodgoalie]

If you're looking for a husky voice, check out Ralph Ineson ('Finchy in the Office) who does the voiceover on Salvage Hunters - on every night at 8pm on Quest (Freeview 37). Must be on about 30 Capstan Full Strength a day!

[Georgiesmum]

3Well Im told there is a lot of cold/flu around at the moment. Luckily it hasnt affected me yet. Im luckily I rarely get any colds.

[Bazile]

There's an announcer on BBC radio 4 , with deep voice

[gness]

I love husky voices, Lankeela....though I do know some can be a result of smoking....

Psybbs had a beautiful, husky voice....very sexy....

I'm influenced by voices and one I really can't bear is Josh Widdecombe......I have to turn him off or stick my fingers in my ears when I watch The Last Leg....x

[goodgoalie]

Agree about Josh Widdecombe, gness. And that continuity announcer with the weird deep voice on Radio 4 is Neil Nunes - how on earth he got that job on the UK's premier speech channel is a mystery.

[tonyav]

Psybbs had a beautiful, husky voice....very sexy....


She sure dad, gness. Like talking to Fenella Fielding ( with an Irish accent ).

[tonyav]

Had not dad ^^^^^

[gness]

And Josh's laugh is even worse, GG.....x

It was, Tony.....I really miss her....I loved when she called...it was always fun and that voice was special....x

[tonyav]

It was, gness. A really fun person.

[goodgoalie]

Seems I'm not the only one who finds Neil Nunes extremely irritating:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8304155/Who-has-the-most-irritating-radio-voice.html