I don't hear a voice, I read much faster than a person could speak.

>When you read, do you hear a voice in your mind sounding out each word?
>gilbert-gottfried.jpg

Fuck you, /lit/. You've ruined books for me. Cannot unhear the gottfried.

Sometimes it's like those people mentioned and other times it's mine own voice or a voice I think would be perfect reading what I am reading.

I don't hear a voice nor do I picture anything in my head unless I force to. Kind of strange I'd imagine.

Yeah I know what you're talking about OP, it's kinda like some narrator, probably in my voice. But when I get to characters, they always have different voices of their own.

If I'm actively thinking about reading, I hear my own voice. If I'm just reading, and rather absorbed, I just get the text with no voice.

An odd thing is that I have near photographic memory when I hear the voice in my head. I can later flip through the book to a particular sentence based on its location on the page, and what was happening around it. If I'm absorbed and just visualizing automatically, I can't do that.

>>41923
THIIIIIS!!!! FFFFUUUUUU-

srsly.

i tend to make up voices for the characters and narrator in my head, and read at normal human speech pace, because it helps me comprehend, explore and get involved with the characters and the narrative more. but if its something like and instructional or a textbook then i just look and understand. its much faster

>>41909
That actually sounds detrimental to the enjoyment of the book. Do you just scan the pages so fast you come off with the gist of what happened? Just doesn't sound FUN to me...

I try to come up with voices in my head based on movies, radio, music , cartoons, and tv shows I've heard. I have a whole cast of people to fill roles in books.

>>41902
usually i have a voice reading, but it goes on and off based on the speed i'm reading. recently i've been reading books at a slower rate to try and really take something from them, and that narrator voice has been active because of it.

Only if i'm repeating, revising or emphasising a sentence in my own read do a hear a very faint inclination to believe it's in my own voice.

that depends. Usually I just read without hearing a voice, though there are occassions when I feel the need to read aloud a sentence because it feels like it needs the emphasis.

If I do hear a voice, its usually my own. However, there have been occassions when, depending on the character, I will hear the voice of an actor or a VA speaking.

I never hear a voice. Usually it's like you said, I just understand the words by seeing them.

Yup, I hear my own voice. But I thought that was normal. Until a while back when I found out that it wasn't. =/

It depends. With things I'm required to read, like textbooks or school-required reading I don't enjoy, I can do the "comprehend at a glance" thing.

With novels I'm reading for my own enjoyment, I usually hear my own voice as the narrator, with the voice changing for the dialogue of different characters.

Depends, if I study or read something really fast with not much interest I just gather information.
If I read I hear Stephen Fry.
You are now jealous.

Usually I glance at blocks of text and allow the meaning to soak in, basically the gestalt approach...

UNLESS I've just seen a movie depicting the book, in which case I unfortunately begin seeing the actors and hearing the voices as I read... slowing me down a bit (best example would be LOTR)

It depends on what it is. Things like street signs I just see. Anything I really need to look at and think about I tend to hear in my own voice.

There's two ways to read much like there are two ways to write. One is for the ear (writing/reading as if it's being spoken,) the other for the eyes (writing/reading on more of a "grokking" method.)

For me, it changes depending on the work. I've even caught myself trying one or the other to see how it read better.

I read in my own voice. Is that normal?

Different characters have different voices, obviously.

I hear Morgan Freeman.

I don't hear a voice at all.

>>41997

Actually, for the books where I hear things in my own voice, it's not usually direct reading from the text. It's kind of like:

Original text: "Startled by the noise, he jumped up from the chair and nervously glanced around."

How I hear it: "Startled... jumped from chair... glanced."

I comprehend the rest of the words, I just don't hear them.

>>42045
I often imagine him narrating moments in my life.

>>42045
Dude, now I want that.

Patrick Stewart

OP here.

I have never read anything without hearing a voice. I cannot even imagine what it would be like (though it seems like it would be very convenient and fast for studying).

I just tried scanning a page of a book and 'absorbing' it like a few of you have said, and I don't remember anything I read. I think I need to hear the sounds of the words in order to understand them.

I always wondered how some of my classmates managed to read enormous books in such a short amount of time. I suppose they could read without a voice.

I mostly listen to AudioBooks, and when the narrator is british, I will spend the rest of the day thinking with a british accent.

This is extra weird for me, since my first lanuage is Spanish.

I read in the voice of gordon freeman.

>>42045

As much as I love Morgan Freeman, he would be too slow to be my narrator.

I hear a voice, but it doesn't sound like anyone. It's just some kind of pseudo-audiobook that I hear in my head, but no one's reading. Alternatively, if I can imagine a voice, I can read anything with it. Keith David much? His voice is awesome.

>>42045
you now hear Morgan Freeman reading lesbian porn for you

>>42104
Do you read a lot? I read quickly and without a voice but I don't do it that way because I choose to and use some kind of skim/scan technique, because that shit just doesn't work. Read a lot of books, use IRC/messenger programs/wikipedia and you'll get faster.

>>42112
I see what you did there

>>42032
That is exactly what happens to me...
It just feels natural to have characters speak in "normal speed"

>>42138
"Brittany slowly rubbed her finger along Jessica's panties. Like the dampness seeping through the cotton, the smell permeated her olfactory system."

>>42186
FFFFUUUUUUU

>>41927
This. Doesn't happens always though.

>>42186

OH GOD MORGAN DON'T STOP

When I'm reading, I usually hear my own voice in my head as the narrator.

It's my own, but it's usually slightly higher pitched than my actual tone.

>>42144
I spend most of my day reading. Books, textbooks, articles on the internet, etc. I'm not an exceptionally slow reader, but I can only read as fast as my mental voice can speak (and it has to sound coherent or I don't understand it).

>>42227
I have to ask; are you a woman?

I ask because, as a guy, I think my imagined voice is a lower pitch than my real one.

God damn it OP, I actually do sometimes read in Gottfried's voice, against my own will. It detracts from the reading experience ten-fold.

>>42231
Eh, then its not all bad. Being a fast reader/typer means you spend at least some of your time raging waiting for other people.

It depends on which book I'm reading. Right now I'm reading The Souls of Black Folk, so Samuel L. Jackson seems fitting.

>>42247
I use Gilbert Gottfried's voice when I'm reading a textbook I'm not interested in. Then everything becomes hilarious and I remember more of it. I only run into problems when I'm taking an exam and start giggling because I'm hearing Gottfried yell equations and definitions at me.

>>42294
Hey! My town, Albany, Georgia, is mentioned in that!

... Interesting read, too.

Yes. Sometimes I read and hear it in my own voice, other times I just comprehend the text.

I generally do not hear a voice, absorbing it as some have said. A couple of times, though, I've gotten really in the zone and just gone straight from looking at the text to visualizing whats going on in my head. It was strange, like just looking at the words was enough to... decode it into what is actually happening in the story visually. It was strange.

usually there is not voice, however if i have listened to audiobooks i tend to read in the narrators voice and the characters how he narrates them.

i don't know why this happens, it just does

Usually my own voice, or the voice I imagine the character speaking would have.

I don't hear any voices. I'm much faster than that.

I try to imagine how the characters would speak the dialogue. For the narrator I hear my own voice.
I also extensively picture every scene in my mind, not just "comprehend" it.

y'all on some strong drugz yo

>>42630
And you're just a word muncher. Books are much more fun if you use your imagination.

this man, most of the time.

I dont hear voices either, same with comic books, makes me kinda jealous of other people who do.

i ''leave'' the book/text i'm reading and see it all infront of me, or like i'm the main character. I imagine the voices and the scenery. I'm in a totally in the book i'm reading.

>>42731
This is the best way to read books.

>>42846
it's annoying if people talk to you or touch you, it's harder to get into the same state of mind etc

The voices never even occur to me. If I'm missing out on it, I'm not aware of it.

My biggest problem is that I can't see faces when I read. I have to fight to imagine a face, and even then, I can't make it stay. Everyone I read about is a faceless blur.

Seriously WTF'd at this thread.
I didn't know that so many people can't read properly.
No wonder many people find reading tiring.

I find I understand the content a lot better if I don't use the narrative voice for some reason - like I'm using my concentration on sounding out the voice in my head instead of comprehending the text.

>>42186
Don't know if that's hot or what. He's just above that. Above vagina smells.

But then again, he did the Bucket List. So. I don't know.

>>42892
>read properly

Oh lawdy. Tell us, massa, we too dumd ta undastand da wordds on da paypah.

How do I red book?

Mind is blown... just read this whole thread, heard the voices in my head.... but have no idea whose voice that is. wtf.

hearing a mental voice while reading is identical to actually speaking the text out loud as far as the brain is concerned.

it's slow.

>>42930
Why so butthurt?

I've been reading a lot of poetry lately where the sound of the words is important.

Picture related.

When i read after 20 pages or so i stop noticing that i am flipping pages and see a movie playing out in my head

I hear a voice, but it doesn't sound like mine. I don't know who the fuck it is.

Sometimes just for kicks though I try to make it sound like Morgan Freeman.

Always just a generic male voice, which is a bit odd since I'm female. Unless the book is told first person with a female protagonist, I can't imagine a female narrator, which makes trying to listen to audiobooks hard at times.

>>43239this is what i was trying to say in this >>42731 but, Anon put it better

My friends always make fun of me for reading slow, but now that I've read through all the posts saying they read at a speaking pace I'm starting to think that's why I read "slow". I can't really comprehend things if I don't read it at a normal pace, otherwise it's all just a bunch of words on a page that I remember at one time reading but I have no idea what it means.

As for what voice I hear, it's my own, usually just a little lower. Sometimes I'll give a voice to a character depending on the character's behavior and who I relate it to in real life. However, whenever I read stupid comments on websites I always read them in a ditzy girl's voice, because it just seems to fit perfectly.

it is like my voice but its not my voice it is my mind voice

>>41909
This. I only hear a voice when i slow down. Otherwise its a sort of absorption of the words directly. Hard to describe.

The voice i hear is simply my reading voice, but quieter.

I don't really hear a voice, only when I'm concentrating on the "voice" I hear one, so that means it's only there when I think about it. The words are pronounced in my head, but soundless. Sort of a whispering, I think, with an edge of male/female, whoever is talking.

don't hear a voice at all, just read the words...

It's kinda hard to explain, but no, I don't hear voices.
However, I sometimes hear accents. If a Frenchman is talking in the book, I read in a French accent, though without any voice. Never really thought about it, though.

I can't comprehend what I read if I don't subvocalize.

I really wish I could read faster.

I do hear a voice when I'm reading, in most cases it's a character from a tv show, anime, or movie, if the book is related to the any of them in a way

>>41959
>>42066
>>42147
>>42186

WHY AM I READING THESE REPLIES IN THEIR RESPECTIVE VOICES!

>>43662
Mindfuck is something amazing, isn't it

This is nothing new to me, it plays out in my head like a movie, all the characters have their own voices in my head, the narrator has no voice unless it's written from a first person POV.

there's no other voice except for the fact it is not my native language i'm reading.. in this case there is my own voice reading..