I'd think one's voice on DVD commentaries would be a little bit deeper, since one is just sitting and commenting to a mike. You don't have to project, you're not excited or moving around-- all things that, IME, makes one's voice a bit higher.

[classic mix of second and third person. jebus.]

Hmm. It's time for me to make time for those commentaries, methinks. And, didn't Fred's southern-ness seem to taper off a bit (with the exception of Fred!Illyria in TGIQ)? Maybe it didn't, but I missed most of Season 3 due to college and such, and started watching regularly again Season 4. When I watched the S3 dvds, I realized that she had a Southern accent and either A) I had never noticed, or B) It had been largely phased out by S4.

AA tends to vary the Texan accent - I think it's a personal choice, since it seems strongest in flashbacks and when talking to her parents.

Shouldn't Fred have had a Pylean Cow accent?

edit: Well I suppose she didn't talk much to other cows while in Pylea.

I'd assume she might have a Cow accent when she speaks Pylean - though I don't know if they've had her use the language - but they did show that she understands it, with her injoke with Lorne about hedgehogs.

You don't have to project, you're not excited or moving around

Unless, of course, you're Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk, and then Lord knows what silliness is going on.

AA tends to vary the Texan accent - I think it's a personal choice, since it seems strongest in flashbacks and when talking to her parents.

People DO tend tend to smooth out their accents over time when they move, and it tends to re-emerge when the person is around family or such, so I can buy that.

I could see Fred trying to tone down the accent while she was in college - anything to keep from seeming like a naive hick from the sticks. Plus they do change over time depending on surroundings. For me the curiosity about actors' voices would be what AD sounds like without the British accent. I keep expecting sort of a prissy Steven Wright kind of thing.

People DO tend tend to smooth out their accents over time when they move, and it tends to re-emerge when the person is around family or such, so I can buy that.

Or after a couple of glasses of wine, or when tired... yeah.

Paul's the only one of his family without a trace of Texas when he speaks, as he was a toddler when they left. The rest of them vary according to time of day, amount of alcohol, and location in relation to other Texans.

I'm also finding that as age dulls their hearing, my folks are sounding more and more Canadian.

For me the curiosity about actors' voices would be what AD sounds like without the British accent. I keep expecting sort of a prissy Steven Wright kind of thing.

Freaking weird and kind of fey.

It's higher, lighter, and not *quite* American. Were you there during the AD movie fest last year? Any of the stuff he did pre-AtS where he was supposed to be playing an American, he sounded like someone faking an American accent (see: KB in Dead Again).

Sort of like how Jake Weber's American sounds, as he puts it, "like an evil, wicked gay man."