You Don't Know What You've Got Until It's Gone!

The sound of people's voices can be like music to my ears. My partner has a lovely deep, mellow voice with a bit of an Irish accent. I delight in listening to male and female radio announcers who use the English language well and I choose to listen to the ones who have a melodic smooth sounding voice. I find it just as pleasurable listening to their voice as to the music they play. Sometimes I feel that I can hear the start of spasmodic dysphonia in news readers on the radio or television and wonder whether it really is what I think it is. Only when your own voice is not the best do you focus more acutely on all voices.

One day I listened to a recorded message on my phone and the image that I had of the person was of someone my age or even older and I wondered whether the lady had a problem with her voice, it was sounding thin and a little crackly. To my utter surprise when I met the lady she was only in her twenties and her voice was nothing like it was over the phone.