i imagine a voice for your avy

[Nami]

Well now I gotta wonder how my avatar works out in all this. O.o

Ahah! For me, I just visualize you with blonde fluffy hair, and a mid-toned voice. Not too deep, but not light.

Right? XD

A pretty girl voice, not so super girly, though. XD

I can only wonder what people think of me, now. The voice and the gender together...what does the lake say about it?

Hm, considering I've never heard your voice (or anyone elses for that matter) I've got a voice in my head for you. But it's hard to describe.

For me, it's strange. I hear voices, all of which are different for a specific persons avatar, if the writer is a female with a male avatar, they get stuck with a male voice. XD I visualize you AS your avatar in most cases. For ABlipintime, you'd be a talking swirl of stars and color. Haha! Floating around.

Even when I've heard and seen what people are like, I'll still associate them with the voice and the avatar that I see them with. Ahaha! It's all very amusing.

Even for myself, I know I don't talk the way I think. The voice I envision for myself is a mid-tone, male, British person. Weird neh? Even with that avatar. Sometimes it changes... to female, depending on what I'm writing.

[TopazRaven]

Lol, I can only imagine what you all must hear when reading my post then? Usually I just read everything in my own voice, but like many others here I imagine most of you looking something like your avatar.

[FllMtl Novelist]

I hear voices, all of which are different for a specific persons avatar, if the writer is a female with a male avatar, they get stuck with a male voice. XD

I should totally use my Snape avvie again, because it would be awesome to sound like him, even just inside your mind. XD

[Nami]

I should totally use my Snape avvie again, because it would be awesome to sound like him, even just inside your mind. XD

XD That would be so worth it even for me!!!

[ABlipinTime]

This thread is hilarious.

Hm, I didn't know my voice would be a swirling vortex of stars - which is awesome - or a guy with white hair - which is... odd considering that there isn't a person in the image. Just goes to show how each person varies in how they extract information (or don't) about a person just from their avy.

On side note, I'm still interested in hearing more from others as it seems not everyone has commented yet.

[Kaori]

On side note, I'm still interested in hearing more from others as it seems not everyone has commented yet.

I don't think you will get a response from all 500 of CAA's active members, if that's what you meant by "everyone."

But to answer the original question, I don't imagine voices to match people's avatars. However, reading this thread made me stop and pay attention to the fact that I do subvocalize while reading posts (in something resembling my own voice, regardless of who is posting), which is annoying because I could read faster if I stopped subvocalizing.

People's avatars do affect my initial impression of them, though, especially if I haven't read enough of their posts to have formed a clear idea of what their personality really is like. If someone has an avatar of a character with a warm, friendly smile, it will make the user's personality seem marginally more warm and friendly; a user with a cold and forbidding character as their avatar will seem more cold and forbidding. I don't generally imagine people as looking like their avatars, though--it's much more about mood and expression.

[SincerelyAnomymous]

I mainly imagine a personality for a user, based on their avy should I not know them well.

[Furen]

If you thought my avatar's voice was mine, too many people'd think I were a girl...

[SincerelyAnomymous]

I imagine Cognitive Gear with a deep professional voice, enjoying a nice cup of coffee.

Mewster is a cat. And reminds me of my old cat ^_^

Xeno sounds like a tough guy. In the good way, of course.

[Panda4christ:3]

I don't know about voices, but i always imagine the poster looking like their avatar :3 (which is why i mistook quite a few guys on here for girls lol XD)

[TopazRaven]

I have to wonder what you all must think when you see my crazy avatars? Look, I finally used someone other then Austria (from APH) in least. I do miss him though....

[KeybladeWarrior]

I imagine a guy that has a loud voice for your avi.

[Koshka]

I don't read posts in a specific voice unless either A) I've heard the voice of the person posting, then I read it in their voice, or B) their avatar is a character or person that I know the voice of, then I read it in that character or person's voice.

Although, when I get to know people a little better, I do start to develop a bit of a voice that I read their stuff in (assuming the aforementioned conditions don't apply) based on their personality and speech style.