This troper has actually measured his default speaking voice with a decibel meter. The result: an average of 90db from 5 feet away. To put that into perspective, I am by default louder than the average blender. That's about 8 times louder than the average conversation. Screaming at the top of my lungs once resulted in someone approximately 80 yards away, and off to the side of where I was yelling, falling off of their chair in shock.

This Troper and his entire family are loud which gets on the nerves of everyone in my school when they have to remind me that I'm sitting right next to them and that they can hear me fine.

This Troper definitely has it, along with LargeHam. Which makes it strange for those newly-acquainted because I am rather standoffish around strangers. Close friends and family, however, know to stand at least 3 feet away from me when I start talking (both for volume and for the stray hand(s)/foot(feet) that may shoot out without warning). I blame it on my massive lung capacity, which allows me to deliver public speeches and debates even with faulty sound systems.

This Troper, most definitely. I come from a loud family. We see my mother's family once or twice a month on average, and since she has twelve siblings, all of whom have spouses and offspring and at least half of whom will show up at any given time, over the years, I've become accustomed to speaking very loudly to be heard. Also, I play the trombone, so I have developed a large lung capacity, which makes it easier to be loud. My mother will often say, "Turn off the trombone voice," but it's really hard for me to do so.

My brother and I are like this.

You get it from YourMom. Trust me... ''I know.''

YES!

My sister has only gotten worse over the years, to the point where I will need to shush her when she's standing 5 feet away from me in a relatively quiet room. This and how loud she insists on turning up the TV have lead me to conclude that she is suffering from progressive hearing loss and just doesn't notice.

This troper had a dorm-mate who didn't have an indoor voice ''for anything''. And would often get phone calls at horrible-o'-clock. This troper once vocally threatened to remove her vocal chords if she didn't STFU already.

This troper 'suffers' from this, much to the embarassment of his friends (we sometimes talk/gossip-ish of other people, and half the time, my friends will spot the person in question nearby, and I won't, and my voice is... loud). My dad does, too. Hooray.

This troper has two friends who suffer from this. They will talk to each other in a volume that makes you want to gouge out your eardrums with something really sharp. And neither of them will notice it until you point it out to them, not even when they're speaking ''to each other''.

This troper can't help doing talking loud and finds it quite frustrating. It's especially a pain when I need to be quiet, because I will start out talking in a low voice and then I'll forget and revert to normal volume. It's even worse when I'm drunk.

Inverted by a gent this troper knew: The guy had no ''outdoor'' voice, and his indoor voice was so soft I could barely hear him.

He sounds a bit like me. (I also throw TheUnintelligible, SpockSpeak, SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, and SophisticatedAsHell into the melting pot. AND a BerserkButton about people asking me too many questions. I also have a borderline case of HairTriggerTemper. Conversation with me can be a touch risky. For both parties.)

This tropette lacks an indoor voice sometimes, and I can't seem to help it.

This troper who is also a Large Ham by nature is famous for this. So much so that he got cast as Gaston in his company's production of Beauty and the beast. His performance blew everyone away. Several Crowning Moments of Awesome and Funny happened on and off stage. He stayed in character throughout rehearsals and thanks to some method acting almost became the character of Gaston. #QUOTE#'''Casting Director:''' You've got the part of Gaston. How good are you at acting?\\ '''Troper:''' ''(very loudly)'' I'M GRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!\\ '''Casting Director:''' You'll need to be as boastful and arrogant as possible. Can you do that?\\ '''Troper:''' Sure. No problem.\\ '''Casting Director:''' Very good, now say it in a more Gaston-like manner. Be a bit more boastful.\\ '''Troper:''' ''(as Gaston)'' No one boasts like Gaston!\\ '''Casting Director:''' ''(very loudly)'' THAT! WAS FANTASTIC!

This troper swears he has seen this example several times already.

When This Tropette was younger, she always wondered why her throat was so sore all the time. She recently watched a video of herself at age 4, and is astounded at how bull-horny her voice was.

This troper thought his Jurisprudence professor was a LargeHam at first, but it's mostly just this. Even though the man's lecturing into a microphone ''and'' (since it's a small class) no one is sitting near the back of the room, he's still more than twice as loud as any other lecturer around. And he keeps it up for the full 75-minutes class period, without fail.

This troper takes shame in his voice; he has a bad habit of shouting without even trying. It led to a DethroningMomentOfSuck shortly after he got his braces removed and his orthodontist's assistant kept admonishing him for "shouting" when he's ''trying to lower his voice.''

This troper's director in her theater company is not only an overly dramatic gay man who is begging to ChewTheScenery, he literally has ''no indoor voice''. He is the loudest person I've ever met, and he has the temper to prove it.

A woman who works with ThisTroper has no indoor voice, and on top of it has a voice that is about two registers higher than normal. It's the kind of voice that would casually rip through Batman's mental shields. She works two cubes down from this troper. Gyuh.

My best friend has this problem. I still remember back when we were kids and he would sleep over, we'd be talking late at night and half the conversation would be me reminding him to whisper so as not to wake up everyone in the whole house. It has only gotten worse with puberty, but at least we mostly hang out in the daytime now.

One of this troper's friends has no control over the volume of her voice whatsoever. Right after we shush her, she's quiet enough, but then she quickly gets back up to her normal (read: REALLY GODDAMN LOUD) volume without even noticing.

MY FRIEND STEPHEN IS THIS. people always tell him to"STOP YELLING!"

My mother. Dear lord, every other word I must scream "Volume control" in her ear. Then she goes on in a deafening volume, again. I have ringing in both ears. Of course, now I talk to her with headphones on, which makes it better.

This troper is guilty. She is one of those people with only two volumes: whisper under breath (rarely used) and shout at top of lungs (default setting).

This Tropette was giving a friend a pep talk before the friend gave a speech. My final words of advice "...And always remember, if you can't be right, be loud." I always follow my own advice.

This troper has a co-worker who seems to have a stuck caps-lock key... but when quizzed, will claim that this *is* her indoor voice. Later observation proved that her *real* outdoor voice can be heard across a large parking lot.

This Troper has a friend with ADHD. He's a nice guy who like to yell and curse about artillery pieces. When all my friends gather, then things get intense.

This troper deals with numerous customers who insist on ordering their drinks using voices that rival megaphone levels...six inches from his face.

I have a bit of this. I have a fairly loud voice (my parents often 'shush' me) but not so loud it's annoying. Or so I'd hope.

RobinZimm is often told to modulate his voice a little better.

THIS TROPER IS PRONE TO IT, MOSTLY TO BE ANNOYING. He can speak normally, BUT WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT?

This troper recently had brake work done on her car. Good service, but the counter guy conducted all conversation pretty much at the top of his lungs (not helpful to a customer who had a headache that day to begin with). Troper and husband concluded that the counter guy was simply so accustomed to having to be heard in a noisy garage he'd lost his lower volume settings. Troper's husband works in a factory and has developed a similar problem (definitely not due to hearing loss).

This troper sits next to this boy in geometry who A) is constantly talking, B) Talks very loudly, and C) has the LOUDEST, MOST SHRILL LAUGH IN THE UNIVERSE!

This troper alternates between being (from his friends' perspectives) a silent BadAss and a loud LargeHam who can out-enthuse pretty much anyone IN A CAVE! With a box of SCRAPS!

No matter how hard I try, I seem to be yelling. I once whispered to my friend that I had a crush on a girl in the class. Said girl, thinking she heard her name, turned and asked "What?". I freakin blushed like crazy, thanking God I wasn't facing her. My friend saved me by telling her it was nothing.

This trouper. My mother always complains that I speak too loudly. It also doesn't help when you're often around uncles who speak in loud, booming voices.

Or a mother and four siblings who are all equally loud. This lack of an indoor voice occasionally leads to the following: #QUOTE# Troper:'''CUTE SCIENCE TECHNICIAN AT 12 O'CLOCK!'''\\ Death to all eardrums and bemused look from Cute Science Technician\\ Normal Person: Indoor voice...\\ Troper: SORRY, CUTE SCIENCE TECHNICIAN AT 12 O'CLOCK.\\ Horrible embarrassment for all but the human foghorn.

This Troper's brother, oh dear dark gods of evil, this Troper's brother. If I had a penny every time me or one of my parents informed him in vain that we're right next to him and can hear him perfectly fine, I'd be the richest man in Europe. It doesn't help that he very rarely actually has anything good to say. Arguments with him are, to put it lightly, not fun.

This troper's former English teacher had no indoor voice when he was younger, or so I've heard. Even now though, despite his rather advanced age, he can still startle the shit out of you when he does his best. When he does, I'm sure that he reaches the amount of decibels the average aeroplane makes. I shit you not.

This troper and her cousin are frequently told that we have no indoor voices.

This troper actually began taking voice lessons and got in to acting because of this. A couple examples have been (repeated so many times during my life) "Use your inside voice!" "I thought this was my inside voice!" and (at Restaurant A) "Restaurant B is so much better than Restaurant A, don't you think?! I mean, they're so friendly there!" "Dude, they can hear you all the way over there! Shut up!"

This Troper's friend is like this. And so is said friend's family. Get them together, and they are loud. Catch them in even a mild argument, and the entire Earth shakes. The odd thing is, most of the time when the guy laughs, he just kind of shakes quietly, not making much noise. Except when he suddenly lets out a loud "HA!"

This troper has often been admonished by classmates that people halfway across the lecture hall can hear him. And this troper doesn't care. Piss him off enough, and he'll stop speaking in his normal voice, and shout obscenities at you. His classmates have started to lampshade this by muttering "I think I've just gone deaf."

This troper and her roommate are both this way, although we're less of the 'one loud voice' variety and more of the 'consistently rising loudness' kind. We're used to it, as most of our friends from high school are loud like us (particularly the theater kids), but anyone new we met at college that weren't already loud had to adjust. Being drunk doesn't help us, either; we both get louder and try to talk over each other.

This Troper is only this on stage, although he has a habit of breaking out his stage voice to stress a point in an argument. Generally, people are more amazed that I actually can yell to tell me to be more quiet.

Played completely straight when I sing, as I am generally told at least once every choir practice to sing quieter. BY THE OTHER BASSES! In plainer English, I sing so loud that I'm told to sing quieter by the loudest choir section, ever though I'm part of it.

This troper has a very loud speaking voice, which comes from doing years of amateur drama work. My family has to tell me to shut up a lot.

My brother's friend is like this. Since my hearing is really good (to make up for my horrible sight) I can already hear what other people are saying in other rooms, but when he's around it's as if he's in the same freaking room as me at all times. What makes it worse is that my brother likes to join in on this and the two of them start yelling for no reason.

This troper has spent years learning how to use an indoor voice, because he has both a naturally loud voice and good reverb on his voice. For the most part, he's succeeded. However, when he gets excited, he gets distinctly louder. And if he has a reflex reaction (namely, a cough, sneeze, or hiccup) with a vocal component, it will be heard from an extremely long distance.

This troper didn't know until age 12 or so that if you try to talk while wearing headphones you can't really modulate the volume of your voice. I accidentally woke up my best friend's parents at a sleepover singing along to a song on the radio.

This Troper has always been known as a loudmouth, especially when I'm around my friends. Funnily enough, my parents tell me to quit mumbling, though...

This tropette's sister had a friend who had two volumes: Loud and I-think-they-just-went-deaf-in-AUSTRALIA! His mother was blind so he used that as his excuse to being so loud. I realized what he said and said,"His mom is blind, not deaf."

My elementary-grade teacher seriously believed (and even stated as such) that his students pay more attention if he speaks loudly, because they hear more that way. We just got very good at tuning him out. When he was on sick leave (after some throat surgery - yes, ''I know'') we had a substitute who did the opposite - he spoke softly so you actually had to pay attention to hear him. '''Cell Phones Examples:'''

This guy's dad can't seem to modulate his voice when speaking on the phone. Any phone. It's constantly turned up like Spinal Tap's guitar amplifiers. Acceptable when speaking outside, not so much ''while I'm driving my car...''

This troper had a neighbor who frequently held these loud cell-phone conversations in the apartment complex courtyard... at three A.M.

Did you try stabbing her in the ear drums? At least then she'd have a reason to yell...

This troper and her brother have become conditioned to automatically turn the volume of our cellphones down when our mother calls, at the risk of anyone in a six foot radius hearing the entire conversation.

This normally quiet troper can't help BEING LOUD WHILE ON THE PHONE! Which is annoying because my Mum is unbelievably loud and irritating on the phone as well and I'd like to be as little like her as possible, thank you.

This troper once got in trouble for having the TV turned up too loudly because his dad was in the same room talking very loud on the phone. Every time I'd turn the volume up, he'd talk louder.

I do this pretty much whenever I'm in the school library. I pretty much yelled for someone from across the hall. I'm still surprised I didn't get told off.

While not as severe as some others, this troper still talks louder than most people like

This troper is always yelling on the phone for some reason. Yeah. I don't know.

A singer busking on the S-bahn in Berlin seemed to have been operatically trained. At any rate his voice was far too loud for the train.

Subverted in one conversation this troper had: #QUOTE#'''Me:''' Use your indoor voice.\\ '''Other person:''' [+I have no indoor voice!+]\\ '''Me:''' Well just be quiet then.

I am now not allowed to give speeches while holding a microphone, announce something with a microphone, or try and have a privater conversation. This is due to my body percieving my voice softer than it is, along with percieving anything overly familar (favorite songs, other's voices, Billy May's ads...) softer. I tend to speak to loudly a lot.

This and That Male Troper: I can get like this at times, particularily if I get impassioned about something (it stems from a minor learning disability; personally, I think it adds to my charm).

This troper was incapable of talking quietly when he was younger; not only did he talk loud, but he also wrote everything in all upper case letters. He grew out of this, thankfully.

This Troper's friend, along with that friend's immediate family. Can be quite embarrassing when they star having a very loud argument ''while guests are in the same room.''

This Troper had a roommate in college that was like this and liked to skype with his friends at one in the morning when I was trying to get some sleep.

The ninth-grade history teacher at this troper's school has no indoor voice. HEY, THANKS FOR HOLDING THE DOOR! THAT WAS SO NICE OF YOU!!

To combat people doing this on the public transit buses that circulate our campus, this troper and her friends tend to pull out our own cell phones and begin talking loudly in more annoying/obnoxious voices. "WHAT?! NO, I'M ON THE BUS! WHAT?! NO, IT'S CRAP! NO, THERE'S SOME OTHER IDIOT TALKING REAL LOUD! WHAT?! NO, I'LL TALK TO YOU LATER! ALRIGHT, CIAO!"

This troper goes between this and mumbling so nobody can hear him. The latter is usually caused by me becoming self-consious of the former.

@/RainbowPoof : I'm like this, especially if I'm nervous. I try to keep it down, but for some reason I just can't do that. And somehow this results in me using entirely different voices depending on the situation without meaning to. With friends, I'm not that loud and have my normal voice; with people I don't know or people who intimidate me, I have to make a conscious effort to keep my volume down, and for some reason I speak in a higher, more feminine voice, as though I'm afraid they''ll forget I'm a girl if I'm not shouting... It's all very strange.

This troper's father, to the former's chagrin. Combine this with beer at every meal, and you get an unintelligible no indoor voice.

I constantly have people shushing me.

This troper has very bad hearing, so she occationaly starts talking way too loudly.

My five year old brother has a very loud voice, that sounds sort of like Fred. It is very annoying.

My little bro is 15. He still has no indoor voice, in fact everything he does (eat, laugh, talk sneeze and walk) is Super loud. Me? You have to ask me what I've said over at least three times

This troper is convinced that at least half the population is inflicted with this malady. I don't understand people who are sitting two feet away from each other feeling the need to converse so loudly that they can be clearly heard and understood 50 feet away. I keep thinking, "why do you not care that a bunch of total strangers can hear your private conversation?"

This Troper says stuff out loud. The letters fall down and blow up.

This Troper can have an indoor voice, but very rarely. Like once every season, if that. He shouts everything, including whispers, and the worst part? He doesn't know he's shouting. Also, he's scared a teacher before by his unintentional shouting.

This troper has one volume, which is talking really loudly. Very bad for my mom and sister, who both constantly get headaches.

This troper, lives VERY CLOSE to her Mother's side of the family. Said family is big, as in her mother's Mom is the oldest of 7 children. Four still live within a 20 mile radius of each other and get together once a week. This Troper learned from a early age if you wanted to be heard, you had to be LOUD. It made her a natural in theatre though

This troper in any Skype conversation or any game that allows voice chat on the PC. My sister usually barges in and yells at me to shut up, to which I usually respond with a deadpan "No." I LIKE MY NO INDOOR VOICE DAMMIT >:C

Apparently I'm like this.

I am normally soft-spoken, and when I'm not soft-spoken I'm usually quiet. Which means everybody's surprised when I reveal that I can open my mouth and shake whatever room I happen to be in with one huge Incoming Ham noise. Apparently people think I'm shouting... I'm just amplifying. I can get people's attention quite easily like this, using it on more than one occasion in a crowded room when a friend's shout simply did not suffice. "JORDAN!! He wants you. *thumb*" Cue silence from everyone in the enormous room for at least five seconds to look at the source of such a noise. My friend put it as having "vocal presence." I like that phrasing. :3

I am this with things I care about. At one point, I got too exited with Mario Kart Wii, so my cousin said "Shh .. Use your Indoor Voice." To which I of course responded "I ''HAVE'' NO INDOOR VOICE!" ;)

My dad talks on like this on the phone constantly. And sometimes off the phone. No matter how many times we explain to him that the phone is held right against his mouth, he just can't help it. And it's hereditary...

GO BACK TO NO INDOOR VOICE HERE!!!!!

I think I just went deaf in my right ear.

'''WHAT?! WHAT DID YOU SAY?!'''

'''I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED, BUT I'VE GOT JUST THE ONE EYE!'''