Voice Facts

Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.

Some species of fish have voices!

Yoda in Star Wars and Miss Piggy in The Muppets were voiced by the same person.

Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, regularly picks up the phone and calls dying children in hospitals — in character. No cameras. No publicity. Just Pooh Bear on the line, talking to a sick kid who needs something to smile about. He's been doing it for years.

Cats can recognise their owner's voice but often choose to ignore it. A 2013 study found cats showed recognition behaviors like ear and head movements when hearing their owner's voice, but rarely bothered to respond.

A couple had their wedding rings engraved with a waveform of their own voices saying "I do."

Peter Cullen, the voice actor who voices Optimus Prime, also voices Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.

Shaggy's growling singing voice wasn't natural - he built it mocking his Marine Corps drill instructors to make his platoon laugh. Sergeants started calling him forward to lead cadences. The growl stuck. He served four years as a cannon crewman and deployed to the Gulf War in 1991. "I got this voice by mocking drill instructors in the military."