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If for nostalgia's sake we broaden the scope of the question to include
the old Iron Curtain countries, unsynched & censored lips abound.
Erich Honecker, for instance, had a very high and squeaky voice (GDR
rumor had it that he slept in an oxygen tent at night and so had done
something to his vocal chords).  Whenever GDR television wanted to show
him giving a speech (at least towards the end of his reign), the image of
Honecker speaking would be accompanied by the low, calm, soothing voice
of a newscaster reading/summarizing what Honecker was saying. As I
remember the Voice would often be female, but presumably less jarringly
"feminine" than Honecker's own voice....
 
Anne Nesbet
UC Berkeley