What Our Voices Say About Us, With Actor Lake Bell

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Our voices are a defining quality of who we are—but often go underappreciated, argues Lake Bell. This week, Lale chats with the writer-actor-director-producer about her new audiobook with Pushkin Industries, ‘Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound,' to find out just how much of our personal histories and travels are captured by our voices, and unpacks the power we possess—and the challenges we may face—when we speak.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Lale Arakoglu and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast for anyone who is curious about the world and excited to explore talk to actor and director Lake Bell. I've loved her work
0:30.0	since her movie In A World back in 2013. And on November 1st, she came up with an audio book
0:35.9	from Pushkin Industries called Inside Voice,
0:38.9	my obsession with how we sound.
0:41.1	It's a deep dive into, as Lake puts it, our most ignored and least appreciated trait, our voice.
0:49.3	In this show, we speak to travellers who have a huge range of accents and dialects.
0:53.7	It's fascinating to listen to, where we live and who we talk to on who have a huge range of accents and dialects. It's fascinating to listen to.
0:55.7	Where we live and who we talk to on a daily basis affects how we speak.
1:00.0	The pace, the volume, the rhythm.
1:02.5	I'm curious to know more.
1:10.2	And your name is Lal?
1:12.5	Lale.
1:13.8	Lale.
1:14.4	Because they're spelled very similar, our names.
1:16.9	We are.
1:17.4	And actually, my name always autocorrects to Lake.
1:20.6	So I get many, many a lake.
1:23.5	Oh, Lale.
1:25.5	Where are you from originally?
1:28.0	I'm from London.
1:29.2	You're from London, but your name is quite extraordinary.
1:33.0	My dad is Turkish, so I have a Turkish name.
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