My own voice is unbearable - its a shyness/self-esteem issue I expect. I did finally listen to it because I had to for work and then I noticed that it is like many other voices on television/radio when interviewing men of my age - a kind of accent-less, classless (don't ask if you don't live in UK), undemonstrative southern English that is very common and actually sounds quite authoritative (to me). I still don't like to hear it though.