For this assignment (for two stars) I had to change my accent completely to either British, Australian, or Southern… I think my accent is a mix between British and Southern. I tried really hard though, definitely realizing in the process that I am unable to do accents, but I thought it would be fun. I used Soundcloud, where I signed it, clicked on upload/share and recorded my voice; it is that easy! Hope everyone gets a laugh out of it!
When I was a senior in high school I worked for a Pizzeria in Freeport, Long Island called Raimo’s. They had awesome food—in fact, they still do because a quick search suggests they’re still going strong—and it got so busy back in the late 80s (1989 to be exact) that they hired me just to answer the phone for pick-up orders. I spent about four hours every friday night answering the phone, writing up tickets, and generally getting the pizzas, heros, etc., ready for pick-up. It wasn’t a particularly exciting job, but I liked talking to people on the phone and the meatball parmagian heros were to die for, so I kept coming back. Anyway, I used this scenario to do the “May I take your order?” audio assignment for ds106. I tried a thick Long Island accent, which was pretty easy for me, and my only issue was that both the person making the order and the person taking the order sound too much alike, which is my bad. Outside of that, I love the idea that the person taking the order challenges the other person on the quality of LI tap water—a source of pride on the Strongest Island. What’s more, being confronted on stupid things like this happened all the time to me in NY, and it never happened nearly as much to me when I lived in California or Virginia. Anyway, here is my take-out phone order from a Long Island pizzeria.
Doing that previous one made me think of another experience I had when I was younger on Long Island. There was an awesome Kosher Deli in town call Ben’s Kosher Deli that I used to ride my black and gold Ross Snapper to on a regular basis and get two plain hot dogs and a coke, right after purchasing a smurf from the nearby stationary store (which was called Stage, if any Baldwin, LI folks are keeping track). There was always the same old Jewish guy who ran the hot dogs and every time I ordered them and asked for the coke he would ask me in return, “How do you like the coke?” To which I would invariably answer, “In a can,” because I preferred that over fountain. And to this he would always follow with an emphatic question, “What are you Greek?!’ A joke I never got until much, much later, and still marvel how insane it was that he said that to an 8 or 9 year old kid for what seemed like years and I never got it and he never got called on it. So this on is in honor of him, who must have been Greek 
All sound effects were gotten from Freesound, which specific credits listed below.
Sound credits:
“Restaurant Ambience” by Aftergaurd
“Hang Up” by Ondrosik
“Phone Receiver” by Percy Duke
Old Telephone Bell by fonogeno
I’ve always wanted to use a fake accent when I ordered food at a drive-thru so here’s my chance!
I’m not sure exactly what kind of accent this came out as… but it definitely is entertaining. I recorded my order directly on soundcloud and then uploaded it into my blog post. I only did one take and just made up the order as I went. My Mom and I are very picky eaters and are always placing orders with substitutions. We aren’t as bad as in my sound clip, but I pulled a lot of my inspiration from things we have ordered.
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/may-i-take-your-order/ I work at a Chick-Fil-A so I just put in some of the more difficult things that people actually ask for. I don’t really have any good accents so I just went with whatever that is lol. It’s different than my normal talking so I guess it works. I used the app for soundcloud [...]
My first Assignment that i did was to make a ringtone, the thing said for it to be 30 to 40 seconds and mine is only 13 so maybe its more a of text tone, but i chose wind and water because they just go well ha! I also wanted to make it less ringtone like because i like when people use strange sounds and noises for ringtones, before i uploaded music to my iPhone my ringtone was the duck quacking! I got these sounds from freesounds.org !
This was my kind of southern accent while placing a strange order at McDonalds, every time i listen to it i laugh lol but i hate recording my voice it is just so strange to me ha
I chose to read the activation guide that came with my replacement iPhone 4 because those 3 simple steps are crucial to a successful activation ha.
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Process
Not really too much to report on the process. I already knew how to make a good Hispanic accent, since I am Hispanic ;0. Went to soundcloud and started recording with no real plan. I just said the first words that seemed natural to me and I believe it turned out well.
Motivation
Fun idea. I am very interested in viewing other recordings to see which accents they used. Not only did I include an Hispanic accent, but I also included a side conversation with my mother. I wanted to capture the overprotective Hispanic mother stereotype, so hopefully people can understand my spanglish.
For this activity we had to record a difficult Macdonalds order. A really good assignment to practise that moment at drive thru when you hear those words ‘ Welcome to drive thru…May I take your order please’…
This was a really fun activity!
Using your best accent (whether it be Australian, British or southern, ect), pretend you are at McDondalds and order something off of their menu. Be picky! For example, a coke with no ice.
