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For another angle what exactly is the source for our distinct voices to begin with? Are everybody’s vocal chords distinct in some way like a fingerprint or something or is it mostly governed by our baseline neural control considering how people can frequently impersonate others ala comedians to some degree of accuracy where it’s funny.

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Considering a given person's voice would sound different if they were brought up speaking a different language, yet all the speakers of that language have distinct voices, I'd say it's a bit of column A and a bit of column B.

that's a good point too, accents can creep over from first learned languages of a different tongue.

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