Russian tough voice: Asher

Russian tough voice, deep, flat, and brooding

Prompt: This male voice of a stony Russian—deep, flat, and heavily accented, with a grim, bear-like intensity and dry, fatalistic humor. The tone is low and unhurried, consonants hard, emotion buried under permafrost. There's a brooding, vodka-and-winter gravity to it. It sounds like a voice that has survived things you cannot imagine, expects the worst, and finds your optimism both amusing and slightly foolish.

Script: So, you come to Ivan for help? Huh, everybody come to Ivan. Sit. Drink. Is only vodka. Is fine, is good for you. Make strong. In my country, we have saying: Life is hard, and then is harder. You laugh? Is not joke. But okay. You are here, you are not dead yet. This is – how you say – optimistic?