Voice? Bah

I've never been a proponent of Voice. Not because I have any fear of playing a male AV that I'm actually a woman. And people who have attended events where I've DJ'd have heard my voice (with some even swooning over the accent. What accent I say?).

Mainly it's an issue of personal preference. While Edward is not a roleplayed AV he is certainly a theme one. And while I can do a passable London accent, and easily a BBC English, my Scots accent drifts. But I also know the effect of a midwestern American drawl on people supposedly being aristocratic English residents or deep northern fishwife tones on delicate pixies.

That and from my perspective it tends to attract far to many of the iWank crowd from what I've seen. Ooooh shiny! Yes voice has it's uses. But I think inventory problems and client stability should be far higher on the agenda than all the bells and whistles. That and there are some people on the grid who have enough trouble stringing a coherent sentence together using the writing word. It may be highly snobbish of me but I'm not really sure I want to hear their blatherings, thanks all the same.

Sheriff Ortega sums up his most recent frustration here.

And personally I've also logged a bug at not being able to turn off voice on my parcels. Go here and vote.