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Why does my voice sound stiff?
Muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) is one of the most common voice disorders. It occurs when the muscles around the larynx (voice box) are so tight during speaking that the voice box does not work efficiently.
Why does your voice sound so weird?
It’s because when you speak you hear your own voice in two different ways. Greg Foot explains all. The first is through vibrating sound waves hitting your ear drum, the way other people hear your voice. The second way is through vibrations inside your skull set off by your vocal chords.
How can I soften my talking voice?
Some vocal warmups and exercises you can use to relax your voice include:
- humming.
- lip buzzing.
- tongue trills.
- loosening your jaw by opening your mouth wide, then gently closing it.
- yawning.
- deep breathing.
- gently massaging your throat to loosen tense muscles.
Why do I sound awkward when I sing?
You hear yourself in surround sound, in a way, in that the sound waves from your own speech reach your ears through two separate pathways. Bone conduction transmits lower frequencies as compared to air conduction, so this is one reason why your voice sounds so unfamiliar when it’s played back to you.
Is it normal to not like your voice?
In fact, not liking the sound of your own voice is so common that there’s a term for it: voice confrontation. This bone conduction of sound delivers rich low frequencies that are not included in air-conducted vocal sound. So when you hear your recorded voice without these frequencies, it sounds higher – and different.
Why does my voice sound deeper when I speak?
When you speak, vibrations travel to your ears not only from the air surrounding your head, but also through the bones in your head, such as your jawbone. How you perceive your own voice is a combination of these two pathways, which, thanks to the resonances in your head, is often deeper sounding than a recording of your voice.
Why doesn’t my voice sound like what I Hear in my head?
You’ve heard your own voice for your entire life, and its sound is a given. So, why doesn’t a recording of your voice sound like what you hear in your head? The answer corresponds directly to the different paths that sound takes in getting to your inner ear.
Why do we hear our own voice while talking?
But why is voice confrontation so frequent, while barely a thought is given to the voices of others? A common explanation often found in popular media is that because we normally hear our own voice while talking, we receive both sound transferred to our ears externally by air conduction and sound transferred internally through our bones.
How does the sound of your own voice reach your ears?
But there is another way for the sound of your own voice to reach the cochlea and for you to hear it: through the bones in your head. As you speak, your vocal chords are vibrating, which in turn vibrates your entire skull.