How Amelia Watson's Voice Breaks The Rules

Amelia Watson has an amazing voice there are thousands of eers out there but Hy detective is doing something vocally that's uniquely rare Amelia has an extremely cute voice that breaks the rules of how vtubers are supposed to sound but to understand why we first have to know what makes a voice cute at all and to do it we'll use clips from a recent chatting stream she did in March before we continue many of the concepts in this video are from a pedagogical framework developed by vocs Clover gby and Heros our voice has dozens of Parts shaping the way we sound some are obvious like pitch and some are very subtle a like most female YouTubers has a young girly sounding voice that doesn't stand out too much on a first listen but there's actually two deeper things going on here that make ailia sound so cute vocal weight and personality identifying features let's start with weight what would you imagine a looks like just from the sound of her voice uh everything else so I tried to stay away from bread as much as possible okay but I had noodles does she sound 6t tall or 5T tall focal weight helps affect what the body of a person sounds like the lighter the weight the more feminine the speaker usually it is possible to have a heavy weight and still sound cute but it's not as common and Amelia doesn't do that right most of the time am speaks with a lightweight that makes her sound young small and very feminine like her Super Chat thank you line JB oh thank you Ro blue thank you if I did the same thing it would sound like this thank you thank you thank you thank you but that's only half of the secret sauce the other is personality implying features and it's here that am secret starts to get revealed vocal features like weight affect how someone's body sounds but personality features effect how well their personality sounds Amelia Watson makes heavy use of two personality modifiers listen to the following clip without subtitles and try to hear what she says I've been practicing my My Singing In karaoke has helped a lot I think hopefully and one more time with subtitles I've been practicing my My Singing In karaoke has helped a lot I think hopefully the way she said singing and karaoke barely sounded like how those words are supposed sound right singing karaoke versus singing karaoke that is vow replacement every time we say a word we make choices often subconsciously about how to pronounce it fowel replacement hijacks the way words are supposed to be said and replaces the vowels with new ones to sound more masculine and serious are feminine and cute as syllables get closer to an i sound they sound sharper closer to an a sound and they're duller take am's name for for example I can say it three ways a normal way Amelia Watson a dull way Amelia Watson and a Sharp Way Amelia Watson Amelia Watson Amelia Watson Amelia Watson a is constantly talking with a sharp pronunciation making her sound hyper feminine and very cute most people just pick one of the other sharp or dull or somewhere in between and stick with that but doesn't spend her time sounding sharp okay it's time to drop the mask and peer behind the curtain what makes Amelia's voice so unique is that she switches between sounding very sharp and very dull often in the middle of her sentences subverting our expectations and creating a gap between what we expect her to sound like and how she actually sounds it's gapo in a way listen to this example that shows it really easily anyways um anyways is super sharp and the um right after is so dull anyway um am's personality isn't immature exactly but playful and swapping between different vowel Replacements is exaggerating that girly playfulness here's one more example I know I have trouble like sleeping especially since I don't have Bubba Mickey to sleep with you know my dogs they they will usually sleep like right next to me see she's constantly doing it but wait there's more because Amelia also plays with with weight sometimes too adding a ton of style and expression to her range for one last example here's both at once shifting her weight from light to heavy and her vowels from sharp to dull I got which meal did I get I had I had Tak pie meal and it had like a fish cake thingy and some rice and some he like ketchup or something Amelia Watson's voice is very complex like everyone's voice and she's doing a lot of technical stuff even beyond what I covered in this video the end result is she sounds like the rest of H life a young anime girl but the way she does it by blending vocal weight and vowel replacement is unique to her and that more than her model I think helps give a her vibe of playfulness that she has that's all for this video but stick around for the next vtuber voice breakdown coming and sometime in the future I don't know when most people just pick one or the other darp or sh what the hell

Channel: Mirii

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Keywords: hololive en, hololive english, gawr gura, amelia watson, vtuber, vtuber clip, mori calliope, takanashi kiara, nijisanji, voice, voice acting, voice reveal, video essay, mirii

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Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Thu May 09 2024