Eh, I don't think it's necessarily an autism thing. I've heard plenty of people who sound like that when they're reading off of a script and don't have much of a voiceover background, so it's way more common than you think. Case in point: ghouls from Corporate who record their own voiceover tracks for computer-based training modules. Literally mumble-reading off of PowerPoint slides, and still doing the Aussie up-talk at the end of each line of each bullet point. You can practically hear a typewriter bell and carriage return rattle as their eyes seek to the beginning of the next line because they didn't bother to rehearse or partially memorize their own material.
And don't get me started on the ones who begin each slide practically eating the mic, and then end the slide sounding like they're at the end of a hallway, and nary a compressor plugin to be found in the mix.
Eh, I don't think it's necessarily an autism thing. I've heard plenty of people who sound like that when they're reading off of a script and don't have much of a voiceover background, so it's way more common than you think. Case in point: ghouls from Corporate who record their own voiceover tracks for computer-based training modules. Literally mumble-reading off of PowerPoint slides, and still doing the Aussie up-talk at the end of each line of each bullet point. You can practically hear a typewriter bell and carriage return rattle as their eyes seek to the beginning of the next line because they didn't bother to rehearse or partially memorize their own material.
And don't get me started on the ones who begin each slide practically eating the mic, and then end the slide sounding like they're at the end of a hallway, and nary a compressor plugin to be found in the mix.