Why are voices so unique and distinguishable? Even a single word can let you recognize someone.
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They aren’t always, my brother and I sound so similar on the phone that our parents sometimes need a moment to figure out which of us they’re talking to and we aren’t twins or anything.
Voices are a combination of the sounds your body makes just because of its physical properties, and also how you learn to use that physical instrument. Your accent, cadence, slurring and other features of your voice are all properties that you learned growing up. This is why even identical twins can have pretty different sounding voices.
Voices tend to seem unique and distinguishable because we tend to hear voices from only a small number of people over the course of our lives. For example, for most of us Arnold Schwarzenegger has a super identifiable accent and voice, yet his voice is a result of his learning English as a second language and in fact a lot of people from Austria where he came from have similar accents in English. If you were around these people all the time, you might not think Arnold has such a unique voice.
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