Mmm, dunno about Marseille decks not having their own voices. Mine do. Most of them speak French, bien sûr
, except the Fournier and the Rodes-Sanchez - they speak Spanish. Dodal has an avuncular, scholarly voice, a retired gentleman with time on his hands, who might give some of it to you, but is actually happier spending it reading a good book - so he doesn't take forever to deliver his message. The modern Jodo-Camoin is flashy, a bit of a self-taught wide boy who'll bore you rigid sometimes with all the detail, and sometimes will make you laugh or gasp or think that much further. A Dodal 3 of Cups looks nothing like a Jodo-Camoin 3 of Cups, and certainly says it in a different accent and tone.
The number-suit method is but one - basic and useful - way in which to read those two cards. You can explore so many others, from the most arcane to the most imaginative.
I was at a tarot meet in London once, with someone from this forum who'd never read with non-scenic pips. She said she doubted she could, without pictures. She is also an exceptionally good intuitive reader with scenic decks, having taught herself without books. I challenged her to read for me with Major Tom's Tarot de Marseille. As it happens, I drew only Minors, none of them courts. After laughing about the perversity of tarot, she proceeded to read for me. Perfectly. Mainly using image or shape association and imagination, with some systematic knowledge - she proceeded to tell me exactly what I needed then, and also gave me good insight into the future. She certainly picked up Major Tom's Marseille's voice loud and clear!
So now, when people say to me "I can't read with Marseille pips" I don't believe them. They might not
like non-scenic pips, from a purely aesthetic point of view - that's a matter of taste and I won't argue with it. But if they are tarot readers, they will hear the voice of the pips if they just relax into their readings without preconceptions, just approaching those minors like any other card. Instead of thinking - "HELP! There's no human being on this card doing something to tell me how to interpret it", they can just start thinking "oh, those flowers look a little limp, and that single one is reviving, and look at those nine cups in three rows, it's all too perfect, it can't last,..."