alt Hacker NewsIn general, without any context, I doubt there are a lot of people you'd immediately recognize by their voice. When I was podcasting (and editing) there were certainly some people I would recognize but in general not so much.
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georgemcbay • today at 1:15 AM
> I doubt there are a lot of people you'd immediately recognize by their voice.
There is a lot of variability on this from person to person.
A lot of people are terrible at recognizing voices out of context. I have always been able to recognize people's voices just about as easily as their faces.
(Unfortunately, while this is a neat parlor trick, I haven't found it to be a particularly valuable skill).
I don't think I have a particularly distinctive voice. But I once asked a question at a Q&A with a famous actor, the whole event went up on YouTube, but only the stage was on-camera, not the people in the Q&A line. Three years later, a friend of mine messages me "WAS THAT YOU asking a question about x to actor y at event z?" She'd randomly come across it on YouTube. Yup, it was. Blew me away.