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Letter: Many voices

Published 31 July 2013

From Peter Harrison

Determining a person’s personality from their voice is more complicated than Tiffany O’Callaghan’s article suggests (13 July, p 38).

Although I think I always speak in the same way, I am told that my voice differs depending on whether I am addressing a group or chatting at the dinner table.

Some people appear to have a number of personalities, and the one they subconsciously present, with its attendant voice, is the one appropriate to the circumstance. So, any single test will only reveal a partial picture of such people.

Fetcham, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 2928 published 3 August 2013

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