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Do you Recognize Voices By Phone?
I remember that time when I was calling to my brother’s home phone, and my niece answered my call, she still a little girl, I said Hello! and she really surprised me when she said: Hello uncle Hesham! She recognized my voice from the first second!
Like if she knows who is calling, she didn’t take time at all, I am amazed! I just want to tell you she was almost two years that time, and I rarely call to home phone, I believe she didn’t hear my voice for more than tow month or so.
I become carouse and asked her father about her, I told him the story and asked him who else she can recognize his voice if she is answering a phone call? He simply told that she can recognize everybody’s voice, even if she never talked to them by phone before. Wow! This is so smart, just imagine two years old kid can recognize voices when talking by phone, me myself I have hard time to remember the voice of the caller if my caller id is not working for some reason, and I can not see the number of the caller!
So, that was about me, but what about you?! How things are going with you when you answer a phone call? Do you find it easy all the time to recognize the person who is calling you? Or you are sometimes lost like me?!
Do you think your mode can effect your concentration and make it hard for you to remember voices?
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I think it all depends on the type of voice. I can usually identify a male voice, but sometimes have trouble discerning the higher-pitched female voices. I don’t know that concentration has as much to do with it as simply one’s ability to hear well.
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Hisham Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 1:49 PM
@Stacy Alexander, well.. yeah, is depends on the type of voice, but also on your memory and how you can remember the person’s voice fast. Thanks for your visit and comment.
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I certainly cannot recognize the not too familiar or frequent voices. But frequent voices, I do. But the ability of this two-year-old kid to recognize the voice is really amazing. I try to play with my 8-year-old granddaughter by changing my tone, but she finds me out immdly.
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Hisham Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 1:43 PM
@Gopal. G. (Gkannan), That’s funny because kids are more smart than us :)
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I think it’s all about affective memory .
Cognitive and affective reactions based on …simpathy. Just a little bit more than simple emotions :)
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Hisham Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 10:05 PM
@Andi, Wow! this is so Romantic :)
Thanks for the nice comment!
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Funny… It’s strange how some voices stick and how others don’t. I once got several minutes into a conversation thinking it was ‘friend A’ when it turned out to be ‘friend b’..!!
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Hisham Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 10:09 PM
@Anna, Yeah.. it’s like ” What a mess !! ” :)
Thanks for coming by!
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I am able to recognised almost 95% of my acquaintances or kins. For non-acquaintances, I will be able to recognise their voices after the initial call to a 85% accuracy.
Can’t beat a two-year-old :)
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Hisham Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 10:10 PM
@Wenny Yap, Good for you :)
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Hi.great post, actually you can tell and learn about a person from his or her voice,
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Hisham Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 10:14 PM
@sam sall, it seem that you are full of experiences :)
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Great post, I have three boys (3/2/2) it always amazes me when they can tell who they are speaking with on the phone, because our family is so far away they do not get to see them often.
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:38 AM
@Melissa, Thank you for the visit Melissa, it seem you have a very nice kids!
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I can tell if it is someone that I talk to regularly, but if it is someone I don’t talk to as often I might not know. Sometimes people call at work and they act like I know who it is. I hate to say, “Who is this?”…lol
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 AM
@Jeanine, Exactly, this is happening to me all the time, specially at work when people expect that you will continue the last conversation :)
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Well, sometimes. but one time i recorded our phone conversation and keep playing on it. i just like her voice. like a music in my ear.
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 AM
@nazcar, WOW! I never thought about recording my wife’s voice, maybe because she lives with me :)
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I can’t recognize voices by phone at all. If I don’t see the caller ID, I’ve got about a one in ten shot of guessing who it is, otherwise.
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 AM
@Joe, Thanks to Caller IDs :)
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Most of the time I remember the person speaking on the other end if i have spoken to them atleast twice before.
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:48 AM
@Anamika, keep trying :) you are doing great!
Thanks for the nice visit!
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She have nature shape feelings about people,
wish all great for her coming life :)
Send regards to your niece :) from my niece (http://thalita-prasaya.blogspot.com) & me hee hee…
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:50 AM
@Dian Yunita, Let me tell you something you will not believe about my niece , she some times tell us that this person will visit us today, and the exact person she was talking about shows :)
I have no good explanation for that. do you have any?
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i guess if the person is important to you you wont forget how her/his voice is. i remember my friend, everytime she calls me in the office she knows am coming to pick up the phone just by hearing my footsteps. but there are really people who memory are sharp and very hard to forget once its registered in their minds.
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 AM
@Lilian@baby talks, You are right, Thank you for your comment, I have experienced this with my niece :)
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Hey Hisham, how’s it going? I definitely recognize my friend’s and family’s voices. A person’s voice is usually quite unique.
M :-)
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 AM
@melina, Great! Thanks for the comment.
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I usually have that talent, till now..
All the time, i was amazed that not a single voice I can not recognize.
I can know you by your voice, without even knowing your name or face..
For 24 years of my life, I thought I am alone with this talent, till I passed by your post.
PS: in a new research I read, they said that women can recognize voices better than men.
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Hisham Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 2:15 PM
@Lasto adri, well, I can say that women is more sensitive!
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I don’t have any trouble… except on an occasion when a sister calls and the way something is said (the expression in the words) will throw me off because it’s so much like another sister.
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Hisham Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:24 PM
@Manz, Thank your comment!
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That’s cute. My dad and his brother have twin voices which is really bizarre, but I remember even when I was little, I would pick up the phone and talk to my uncle thinking he was my dad! Needless to say, I was pranked a LOT by those 2!
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Hisham Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:25 PM
@Neesh, seem that you had fun with that :)
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Usually I’m better with faces than voices. I blame that on my visual learning style. :D
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I have two kids, one boy, one girl. I have a hard time telling their voices apart and they are 13, 14! I can recognize any adult voice, but kids…they seem to present a challenge for me.
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I dont always recall voices over the phone. At times, it is tough to identify the voice of someone you know, when he or she has a cold! :)
Nice one. Thanks for sharing.
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One other thought…
I also waited for hours one day for my dad to pick me up after calling him to do so… turned out he went and picked up my sister from where she was!! She’s my twin and we sound very alike ;)
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I have a hard time recognizing my parents voice on the phone sometimes. This kid is amazing. Thank god for caller ID on cellphones.
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Well, once I kissed my gf on phone just after calling her(it was her b-day) before saying hello/hi, then her mom answered; I still can’t forget the cold but shy tone of her voice. lol
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yes..kids can easily remember the person talking to them on phone..even my daughter have no problem recognising familiar voices..
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Hisham Reply:
March 24th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
@inascully, My regards to your daughter & the whole family :) thanks for the nice visit!
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I find that really amazing, because I have a really hard time recognizing voices, unless it’s someone I speak with every day.
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Hisham Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 7:26 PM
@Veronica, I think what is happening with you is normal, kids can concentrate more!
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I have an odd ability to recognize voices. I have trouble remembering faces but a voice I can pick out in a crowd. I have watched NASCAR for the last ten years and can pick out which driver is talking even on the radio. It is kind of spooky actually.
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OddTalent Reply:
May 11th, 2009 at 3:08 AM
@Steve,
I have the odd talent of recognizing not only the voices of people that I have personally interacted with, but I can also recognize the voices of movie actors and actresses. When we are watching an animated movie, lets say, or someone is watching a movie in an adjacent movie, I can tell the names of the actors and actresses from the voice. Does any one know what this ability is called? I was researching this subject recently, the only thing i could find is ‘Speaker Recognition’.
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I certainly cannot recognize the not too familiar or frequent voices. But frequent voices, I do. But the ability of this two-year-old kid to recognize the voice is really amazing. I try to play with my 8-year-old granddaughter by changing my tone, but she finds me out immdly
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