Sound/Voice Meme for Doctor Who

[eve11]

So hey, I did a meme! This is a voice meme I snagged after a_phoenixdragon did a SuperNatural version of it linked from tebtosca here.

The internet is an amazing place that has allowed us to communicate and share with each other, but there is just something about listening to someone else's voice and getting to know them through the things that make them unique. Cadence, accent, the amount of times someone says "UM" -- all of those things are a delightful way to appreciate the friends you already have and the friends you are hoping to make.

The instructions are super easy: record yourself answering the questions below the jump and then post it in the comments!


- What is your username, and where did you come up with it?

- Tell us where you are from and something about it

- When did you start watching DW? When did you get into fandom?

- Who is your favorite Doctor? Who is your favorite companion?

- Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Route, Caramel, Syrup, Pajamas, Potato, Gif, Tumblr, TARDIS, Brigadier, Bad Wolf, Vortex Manipulator, Morbius, Ponds, Sonic, Eye of Orion, Susan, Polly, Pertwee, Eccleston, Adric, Capaldi, Clara, Medusa Cascade, Tereleptil, Cybermat, Vashta Nerada, Sweetie, Zygon, Dalek, Raxicoricofallipatorius, your favorite bit of anatomy, and a dirty word of your choosing.

- Share something you love about your primary DW ship. If you prefer, share something about your favorite episode.

- Share a favorite story or piece of art/vid (with fandom/pairing/author) that you think everyone should read or view.

- What is your favorite DW quote?

- If you could travel to anywhere in Time and Space, from Earth history or any of the worlds on the show, where would you go?

- Do you have a hobby outside of fandom?

- Anything else you'd like to add?



There are several ways to record. I used Audacity and then uploaded it to tindeck. (You can also upload to soundcloud or other kinds of sites, but that does require having a microphone). Others have used Vocaroo Your iPhone or other device might also have built in sound recorders that can work. There is also a way to make a recording via your phone on LJ if that's easier for you.

My recording is linked below. It's unrehearsed and upon listening I never realized I said "um" so much. But yeah, I totally do.

My recording

Possibly I will try an embed link?

Upload MP3 and download MP3 using free MP3 hosting from Tindeck.

Here is the link to my rec from the recording (Partial map of your TARDIS, subject to change): http://dwfiction.livejournal.com/2794749.html

Others!

a_phoenixdragon's recording is here
flowsoffire's recording is here
smallearthcat's recording is here
jjpor's recording is here
radiolaires' recording is here
taiyou_to_tsuki's recording is here
kaffyr's recording is here
lilia_purpurea's recording is here
luorescence's recording is here

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Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Whoot!!! YOU DID IT!!! Gotta legit do this myself now (and pass it on!) WHOOHOO!!

*HUGS*

After I have a listen of course...

[eve11]

I did do it! I sound like a goof, and a very indecisive one, but I did it. I'll see if jjpor wants to link to it on who at 50. Perhaps in the morning. I was at a friend's and didn't get home until 11pm tonight, didn't start recording this until after midnight! Possibly that explains much of the incoherence.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

OMG, you are adorable and I am doing this immediately!!! Taking my phone in the bedroom because...hubby is awake and I am self-conscious, lol!!

I hope it can be linked there...this is just too damned awesome to pass up!

Never incoherent! I love your name and how you came up with it and your ships and the fact that you are a twin and OMG, you are awesome!!

*SQUISHES!!!*

[eve11]

Thanks :) Yeah, the Eves were (as it turned out) experimental clones for developing genius children; there were eight Eves in the original experiment and then one of them escaped and started her own experiments, hence the little twins were Eves nine and ten. So I became Eve 11 :)

I think you are way better at answering the questions than I was :D

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*Beams* I just LOVE that...that is so cool!!

Nahhh, I'm just used to it. And I suspect (with all my nattering) that I must be in love with the sound of my own voice (like my mama always said, lol)!

This is fun!! I hope loads of people do it!! Whoot!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

My link can be found right here, sweetie!! Got long-winded again...omg...cannae believe myself!! But we did touch on one of my fav subjects! *Beams*

This was awesome! Rock on you for pulling it together! I have a feeling this will be fantastic, wicked fun!

*HUGS*

[eve11]

Yay! I will put it up on the list!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*Beams* SO glad you did this!! You doth Rock muchly! And yes, I'm still in love with your voice and your awesome self and -

*Wibbles happily*

[eve11]

Bah, my voice is nasal-y and weird to my ears. I try to make it sound fuller when I do podfic, but I was just talking naturally last night.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

I think you sound delightful!! *squishes you* I sound...like my mother *flattens ears in annoyance* UGH. But you have a lovely voice - and I just adores it!

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Yay! Will have to listen to that, and try and make one of my own eventually :)

[eve11]

Yes, please do make one! :D

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

I will! Might take me a couple of days to get to it, but I'll do you guys the honours of my French accent and rambling ;)

[eve11]

French accents are cool!

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Everyone says that but the French! ;) (Accents are cute to everyone but those who have them as a general rule… haha.)

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

I posted my voice meme but it doesn't seem to work?! To me at least… :/ Can you tell me if you can access it? :(

[eve11]

Hm, it's not working for me either. Do you have the direct link so I can go to the page? Then we can see if it's just a problem with the embedding or if it's with the recording itself.

[eve11]

Okay I'm grabbing the file from tindeck. My first thought is that you made it a .wav file and you might want to use whatever recording software you had used to export it as an .mp3 file and try re-uploading it to tindeck in that format?

Ah, I'm listening now from the download and hearing your voice fine :) (eeee French accent!) iTunes is telling me your track is 17:14 in length. However when I was trying to use the embedded it seemed to not know the length (started out saying 16 seconds, then like 32 seconds, then 24 minutes...). If you can export the track to mp3 that might work out better.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice! 17:14 is correct indeed, I'll try to export the track right now =)

It seems to work now! :D

[eve11]

Awesome! I'll put up the link :)

ETA: the link is f-locked; should I link it here (publicly)? I could also put a link straight to tindeck.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you :)

Edit: I made it public now =)

[eve11]

Ah we must have posted/edited at the same time. The link is f-locked ... should I link straight to tindeck?

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

If you want—whatever is more convenient for you!

[eve11]

I'll link to your LJ now you've unlocked it. Sorry we were posting cross purposes there.

(PS: You did great on the pronunciations! And I love your thoughts about fire and water and flowing for your username :) )

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Okay :) And thanks! :D

[eve11]

:D

I am only half-way through listening (hanging up laundry this afternoon as well), but am enjoying your responses a lot! I never made the connection between the Overflow and Florence and the Machine before, but now I totally see it :D

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Hehe, glad you enjoy hearing them! :D ♥

[lordshiva.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd like to do this for my hypertext Lit class, maybe with people reading page paragraph sentence of something they've written.

Awesome, I will record later. Off to work now.

[eve11]

yay!

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

That was really fun :) I might try and do that if I have the time to figure our the recording/uploading aspect of it (thanks for the tips).

[eve11]

Cool! I think the easiest way is to do an LJ voice post: you just call a number on your phone and talk to it. But Audacity isn't too difficult. I haven't had any experience with Vocaroo so I'm not sure how easy it is for beginners.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Yay! :D This was lovely! I like your voice ^_^

The story behind your username is fun! :D And yay astronomy! ;) I was into that as a kid, too…

[eve11]

I remember being very excited about seeing Halley's comet. My dad told us about it when we were little (we still lived in Maryland so we were under 5) and said, "It will come when you're eight". And we decided, well, we can go to the window and look out and wait until we're eight and we see it. We were probably like 4 at the time. :)

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

That is so cute :D

[liadt]

You sound really cute. I didn't notice the "um"s. Your replies were very good and interesting. I was amused at your laughing at abs and British accent.

[eve11]

Thanks! It was a fun meme to do. :)

[giallarhorn.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I was wondering why your username seemed so familiar. Also, that's an intensely long time to stick by a username.

Donna was really great as a companion because she's treated very much on equal terms with the Doctor and they're excellent friends. Plus, ginger queen :D

Omg that partial map is gorgeous

I should try to make one sometime

[eve11]

Well I am very set in my ways. I find something that works and just go with it :D

The other line of Donna's that I like a lot is from the christmas special when she's looking down the giant spider pit and says, "Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs? Just...trying to help." :D

Ha, you should! More art like that would be brilliant :D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

This was really good - I might have a go myself if I can work out the technicalities of recording something and posting it. I think you did it very well too - I didn't notice that many "ums" when I was listening to it.

Good choice of username too - I remember that particular X-Files episode well. The creepy little girls even nearly got the drop on Mulder and Scully in the end.

[eve11]

Oh, I'd love to hear your answers to these! :D

They did indeed nearly use their foxglove poisoning skills on Mulder and Scully too. Likely revenge for dressing them in matching bright red Murphy Brown 80's shoulder-pad dresses. (if my recollection serves me...)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's what the poison was - I was trying to think and coming up with "curare", but it was of course the old digitalis. ;) I don't actually remember the dresses, but I will have to check the episode now again to see them in all their horror. ;D

And, well, I went and did it - enjoy:

http://jjpor.livejournal.com/122936.html

[eve11]

yowza did you ever! :D Awesome; I look forward to listening (though possibly in several installments!)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

That might be the best idea. ;D

[smallearthcat.livejournal.com]

Awesome meme. I liked it so much I did a recording, which is here (http://smallearthcat.livejournal.com/210329.html). :)

[eve11]

Awesome! Your link is f-locked; would you like to unlock it? I can also link to the tindeck site.

[smallearthcat.livejournal.com]

Ah shoot, I'm so used to posting f-locked, I didn't even think about it. It's unlocked now.

[eve11]

Got it, changed the link above, thanks! :D I will be sure to give it a listen soon :D

[eve11]

Oh, Babylon 5 reference! Very cool. And hey, Peoria was the home town of Richard Pryor; that's what I know about it. :D

What field do you work in? (I too am surrounded by nerds; network security and software engineers)

Yay, flying the multi shipper flag! And Two/Jamie, yeah, they are definitely on more equal footing than some of the later Doctor/Companion pairs.

Ah, I will definitely check out the story; it sounds really cute.

And yes, costumes! You did the really cool Kandyman outfit at Chicago TARDIS if I recall. Nicely done.

Thanks so much for doing the meme! You have a great voice and it was a pleasure to listen to :)

[kaffy_r]

You did really well, and I liked hearing about the bridges - and the way you approach the art of defending the goal. Heh.

I should go to everyone else's and then decide whether I want to risk doing my own.

[eve11]

Aw, thanks :) I was pretty tentative. But I am enjoying others' entries a lot! So I will encourage you as well... *pokes*

[radiolaires]

The adaptation for Doctor Who is perfect, thank you for doing this!
Also, I love your voice and intonation.
And now I want to see the city, it sounds fantastic.
Your story of discovering Who was quite fun. I ache for the poor person traumatised by Eccleston regeneration; THAT must have hurt.
Everything you say about Donna... And River/Eleven *grabby hands* My loves!
The astronomy game was such a nice story.
And hockey! I love hearing people being passionate about hobbies - it always brings me joy.
I live for zingers and humorous quotes as well -the waterpistol one was the best!

I will definitely do this, when I find time to gather my accent for a recording.

[eve11]

Thanks! Maybe I have a future in radio :D

The astronomy game was called Space Hop. There was also Star Hop (we were not as good at Star Hop because the clues for where you needed to go were a lot tougher).

For some reason when I was doing that meme I just completely blanked on any good quotes, even though there are plenty I'm sure! I think that means I need to do a re-watch marathon soon.

Also I see you made a recording! I'll link it above if that's all right.

[radiolaires]

Maybe you do! You sound very precise.

OMG, I want that game for my birthday now! It looks gorgeous -I don't think it exists in French though. That's a shame. Well, we have an excellent board game shop nearby and they have everything. I should have a look at space games.

That's a trouble I have with every show; watching them with a notebook and a pen would be easier.

Thanks!

[taiyou_to_tsuki.livejournal.com]

I had lots of fun doing this; here (http://taiyou-to-tsuki.livejournal.com/219377.html) is the result. :)

[eve11]

Oh hooray! I will add it to the list, and listen soon :)

[clocketpatch]

That was a lot of fun to listen in on. You have a very nice voice and record it well (podfic practice, I'm guessing?) I especially liked your explanation of what you do during hockey - getting in the way and being annoying. You're so enthusiastic about it! It made me grin.

[eve11]

Thanks! Ha yeah, podfic practice :) I used to do well moderating at quiz bowl tournaments too: reading questions Alex-Trebek-like for people to buzz in with answers.

Hockey is so much fun. Even if I don't score goals. The other night we were up 2-0 and the other team had their goalie pulled and were pressuring and I corralled the puck and dumped it out of the zone with like 40 seconds to go and it felt almost as good as (I imagine) scoring a goal. :D

[meghanadxb.livejournal.com]

Is it too late to jump on the bandwagon? I slithered here from who daily at a snail's pace. The sound meme (I had no idea it was pronounced 'meem') was done wonderfully well and your voice is a pleasure to hear

I should hurry up and do my own :P

[eve11]

Not at all, the more the merrier! :D And yeah, it is pronounced "meem" although I think "me-me" is rather apropos too. Thanks!

[lilia-purpurea.livejournal.com]

I did it here-> http://lilia-purpurea.livejournal.com/818.html !

Very funny to do, even if towards the end you can tell I was getting tired of pronouncing English properly xD

[eve11]

I could understand you very well! (Better sometimes than davesmusictank below on account of an accent within the same language! :D)

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Just done mine. My voice sounds weird.

[eve11]

I like your voice. I think it sounds cool. There were a few times I had to listen twice to get what you said but it wasn't weird, just a different accent :) (Note: I didn't link yours above because it was f-locked).

[luorescence.livejournal.com]

Did mine here (http://luorescence.livejournal.com/72414.html). It much much more fun to do than what I expected :)

[eve11]

Awesome! I will add it to the list and give it a listen :)