My voice recognition is okay. Not great and not terrible but if anything
slightly worse than average.
If I think I've identified a person then I can tell if the voice doesn't fit,
but I can't usually identify a person from voice alone. It does help me to
narrow things down though.
On the other hand, speech patterns are very helpful. Some people have particular
phrases that they use a lot or unusual ways of phrasing things.
Oh, and my prosopagnosia is congenital

Steph



--- In faceblind@yahoogrou ps.com, Michelle Akers <michelleakers@ ...> wrote:
>
> >Anybody with prosopagnosia who reads this, can you please say whether you can
use the sounds of peoples voices to identify them.
> >That may help identify how common this is. Please also say whether your
prosopagnosia is congenital or acquired.
>
> Hi --
>
> Guess this is my intro as well, 'cause I've just been lurking up till now --
I'm 54 and have mild-ish face blindness (57% on the online test) -- though I
once failed to recognize my own mother out of context.
>
> I also have no "sense of direction" and was fascinated to learn the two things
often occur together.
>
> I can use voices somewhat to identify people, but not really well.
>
> I've recently realized that an awful lot of how I recognize friends is by
THEIR look of recognition when they see me.
>
> Not sure if my prosopagnosia is congenital or acquired -- I've had it as far
back as I can remember, but I did have head trauma as a very young child (<5
years old), so it could have been traumatic way back then.
>
> -- Michelle
>







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