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just take up smoking heavily
by Romario77 5mo ago
just take up smoking heavily
- throwaway67743 5mo agoDespite popular belief, even heavy smoking does not alter your voice in a significant way.
- reaperducer 5mo agoDespite popular belief, even heavy smoking does not alter your voice in a significant way. I guess you don't listen to Sinatra.
- ssl-3 5mo agoOr John Mellencamp, who repeatedly states in interviews that he likes what smoking does to his singing voice.
- terbo 5mo agoDepends on what you're smoking
- DANmode 5mo agoand mostly how.
- HansHamster 5mo agobacon!
- 9991 5mo agoSource: it came to me in a dream.
- coldtea 5mo agoThere's this myth (that came to you in pop culture) that you end up sounding like Tom Waits. In reality, some phlegm aside, their voice is still the same in any way that matters. If you knew people who didn't smoke and started (not uncommon in the 80s and 90s, quite a few people I know started smoking in university, or after the stress of a first job, some even later), and also the inverse, you can trivially hear it for yourself.
- throwaway67743 5mo agoMy voice is exactly the same as before I started smoking heavily, and I have never had any of the associated problems that most people seem to have (lung capacity, stamina, infections, phlegm etc) - pot luck I guess, like most things
- idiomaddict 5mo agoDo you have a source for that? I can tell with pretty good accuracy whether my students smoke from their voices (adult language learners, we take smoke breaks together and they have no reason to conceal it), and would be very surprised if I’m just that lucky and there’s nothing a person can pick up on acoustically.
- throwaway67743 5mo ago20 years of heavy smoking :) Although it does seem to affect some people more than others for sure, I guess it depends how and what you're smoking.
- argee 5mo agoEasier to inhale an undisclosed amount of helium before recording your password voice
- toss1 5mo agoExcellent idea! Do you need to calibrate it to be able to repeat it, and does that calibration change if you are at a different altitude and in different conditions, such as humidity? Does merely changing altitude (or ambient pressure) change voice enough to be considered different by a recognition or synthesizing system?
- malfist 5mo agoI recommend sulfur hexafluoride for something harder to replicate. Nothing like making hackers risk their life to impersonate you
- alasdair_ 5mo agoOr skip the half measures and go straight for the dioxygen diflouride. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...