Tyler Oakley's Voice Recipe

Tyler Oakley's Voice Recipe

Tempo - Tyler Oakley speaks with a super fast tempo. He tends to keep this pace while he talks, but he occasionally slows his speech to emphasize important things that he’s talking about. 

Rhythm - He tends to speak in love run on sentences but tends to emphasis certain words. He often emphasizes the word “I” and when he lists things he tends to emphasize the first word that follows each expected comma. He tends to stress the beginnings of sentences and follows that by grouping low tones and then follows them with another stressed accent. 

Articulation - Tyler Oakley uses the top of his mouth and the top of his head to resonate sound. His placement also tends to fall very forward and often lies in his nose. The extent of his tone is often dependent on the particular rhythm of the sentence but he often sustains the end of his stressed words. His tone has A LOT of pressure behind is and based on his placement, I would assume that the vibration of his vocal folds is not incredibly extensive.

Pronunciation - He is from Michigan. Therefore his accent tends to be the standard midwestern drawl, but his inflection does tend to veer away from the generic form of American dialect. 

Pitch - Tyler seems to have a very wide range and a very varied pattern of speech. His pitch commonly lies quite if we’re talking about a musical scale but he does have very expressive inflection which causes his tone to vary by a large degree.

Volume - Tyler DEFINITELY fills the space. His voice is very expansive and based on his high pitch the high volume commonly follows. Based on the dynamics of his speech, loudness is bound to ensue. 

Quality - His voice quality is very light yet powerful and often shrill. The impression of his voice is bight, clear, and full. His resonation tends to come from the sinuses but he also tends to resonate from his head-voice. The physical state in regards to the quality of the voice is moderately nasal. If his voice were to be described abstractly, as bright orange tulle; very bright and pungent, yet also very luscious. 

Word Choice - Tyler tends to use very casual language when he records his videos and that makes his tone stand out and makes him seem more relatable. He also used a lot of expressive words and onomatopoeia that really liven up his speech.  

Vocal nonverbals - Tyler does have a lisp, so that does affect his speech and creates a common nonverbal. He also emphasizes t’s, so his tongue creates a nonverbal that shows up very often in his sentences.