Baron noted that YouTubers tended to overstress both vowels and consonants, such as someone saying “exactly” like “eh-ckzACKTly.” She guesses that the style stems in part from informal news broadcast programs or “infotainment” like The Daily Show. “Changing of pacing - that gets your attention,” said linguistics professor Naomi Baron. On camera, it takes more effort to keep someone interested (see also: exaggerated hand and facial motions). Essentially, it’s all about pronunciation and pacing. In an investigation into YouTube voice, the Atlantic drew from several linguists to determine what specific qualities this manner of speaking shares.
They’re over-enunciating compared to casual speech, which is something newscasters or radio personalities do.” Second: “They’re trying to keep it more casual, even if what they’re saying is standard, adding a different kind of intonation makes it more engaging to listen to.” Speech pathologist and PhD candidate Erin Hall told Vice that there are two things happening here: “One is the actual segments they’re using - the vowels and consonants. Regardless, Alderson-Day wants those who think they hear voices to always seek help from a medical or mental health professional.Actual scholars have attempted to describe what YouTube voice sounds like. But Alderson-Day thinks that a better understanding of why people hear these voices could help mental health professionals treat them in a more targeted way, perhaps helping those individuals manage and reframe their experiences into ones that are less distressing. Right now, the common practice is to treat frequent psychotic episodes with medications. Over time, if the predictive processing theory holds up, this might change the way we treat some mental illnesses. Voice hearers are well represented among people who call themselves mediums or psychics. I know at least one or two people who would call it that.” Others think of it in terms of the voice of a passing loved one, or in terms of a spiritual framework. “Which may be that they think it’s just something that their brain is producing like a kind of unconscious brain radio happening. “Quite often the very first time they might not realize that other people can’t hear the voice or the voices but over time what they might do is develop an explanation for themselves that makes sense of it,” says Alderson-Day. But many people who experience auditory hallucinations can understand sine-wave speech without training. Sine-wave speech is a form of artificially degraded speech that humans can understand with proper training. “Doing this kind of research particularly with non-clinical voice hearers is really key for showing how what we believe about the world, what we expect to hear can really shape our sensory experiences,” says Alderson-Day.
Non-psychotic voice hearers accepted that it was happening in their heads, which again leads credence to predictive processing theory-our expectations really might matter. The biggest difference between those who heard voices and those who heard voices and had psychosis was their ability to accept that the tone wasn’t real. Again, suggesting that voice hearers are primed to hear sounds in their environment.
This tendency, to hear the tone when none was present, was especially likely to happen to those who hear voices – whether or not they had psychosis.
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