Sotto voce

From time to time, I am called upon to help answer phones at my office. This has been the case at all of my positions in my working history and I’ve found one prevalent trend: my voice changes. It’s not that I think that I have an overly gruff or irritating voice under other circumstances but I guess I have some notions of how I should sound in a professional manner. Which could just as easily translate to a higher register of vocabulary and enhanced pronunciation. But I don’t stop at semantics, my voice gains a saccharine and sing-song tone.