When we communicate, our stance or posture will change. Our posture is frequently connected to the kinesthetic representation of our current thoughts. If someone is feeling rejected for example, they may slouch their shoulders. These body clues can indicate how to continue with your conversation, make adjustments accordingly, validate the individual's feelings and mirror their current posture. A voice can be mirrored just like a body.
People feel more comfortable with someone who speaks in a similar manner.
This includes regional accents. We may initially be captivated with the southern accent or the folksy down-home drawl of the New Englander, but after a while, our mind begins to become aggravated and we automatically consider them an alien. The voice includes the tone, tempo or rhythm, volume, accents, cadence, pitch, and timbre. If you want to mirror an individual's voice, it is necessary to listen to all of these characteristics and match as many as possible. There is nothing worse then listening to someone who uses dollar words in a quarter environment.