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Inside Voice

My Obsession with How We Sound

by Lake Bell

Narrator Lake Bell

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Length 6 hours

Language English

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A humorous, insightful, and personal deep dive into our most outward-facing, least-appreciated trait: our voice.

Raise your hand if you cringe at the sound of your own voice, worry that you actually do sound like your mother, or have spent a sleepless night wondering if your inner and outer voices are in sync.

Now, hands down, headphones on. Lake Bell is going to tell you why you’re not alone and why your voice matters in the most deeply personal ways.

Inside Voice unpacks the writer-director-producer-actor’s obsession with voice and all its permutations. It takes us on a journey to discover how this vital piece of our identity serves as an x-ray of our personal histories. Bell explored the power of voice in her critically-acclaimed and award-winning film, In a World, which she wrote, directed, and starred in. With this audiobook, she dives back into the rabbit hole to deliver a fun, whip-smart exploration of the psychology, social science, cultural constructs, and mechanics of our voices.

When you hear the iconic voices of Drew Barrymore, Susie Essman, Tracey Ullman, Jeff Goldblum, or Pam Grier (all contributors to the book), you know right away who they are. Interviews with these legends as well as poets, doctors, linguists, voice coaches and conversations with pedestrians on the street get to the heart of why the way we sound matters so much. Voice can be why you laugh at a certain joke or decide to trust someone or even fall in love.

Uniquely suited to audio, Inside Voice is symphonic; complete with interactive games and exercises, and an original score by Chris Bear (Grizzly Bear). You might want to buckle up. This listen is a ride.

Nonfiction Social Science

LAKE BELL is an American actress, screenwriter, producer, and director whose acting credits include No Escape, Man Up, It’s Complicated, What Happens in Vegas, How to Make It in America, and Bless This Mess, which she also co-created and produced. She has written and directed two feature films, In a World and I Do…Until I Don’t and is currently developing her third original film. Bell recently directed two episodes of the Hulu series Pam and Tommy, for which she won the Hollywood Critics Association Award.

With stunning and playful dexterity, she can make her voice do pretty much anything, as evidenced by her roles as the lead voice in the animated, award-winning Sundance film Cryptozoo, as “Chloe” in Illumination’s The Secret Life of Pets, as “Poison Ivy” in DC Universe’s Harley Quinn, and as “Black Widow” in Marvel’s What If… series. Bell uses her voice and platform as an active board member of Women In Film, a non-profit advocating for the success of female peers in the entertainment industry.

Bell was born and raised in New York City. When she is not getting thrown out of foreign embassies for smuggling accents into a dictaphone, she is in Los Angeles, where she lives with her two children (who are also featured in the book).