Why does my voice sound weird on a recording?

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. Then when you hear a recording of your voice, it sounds distinctly higher.

How can I hear my true voice?

“You’re hearing a distorted version of your voice all the time,” Feeser says in the video. The actor then gives his solution: To hear your “real” voice, you can place your hands on the sides of your head — between your jawbone and your ears. “That is what you sound like to other people,” he concludes.

Why does it sound weird when you hear your own voice?

While some of the sound is transmitted through air conduction, much of the sound is internally conducted directly through your skull bones. When you hear your own voice when you speak, it’s due to a blend of both external and internal conduction, and internal bone conduction appears to boost the lower frequencies.

Do people hear our voice as we hear it?

People perceive their own voice to be the combination of those two sources of sound, but everyone else just hears the external stimulus. This is why when you listen to your voice in a recording, it sounds different than the voice you’re used to.

Why do our voices sound different from each other?

We each have a unique voice because so many factors work together to produce that voice. As air passes over them, the vocal cords vibrate very quickly to produce sounds. The higher the rate of vibration, called frequency, the higher the pitch will be.

Do I really sound like my recording?

When you hear your voice on a recording, you’re only hearing sounds transmitted via air conduction. This means that your voice usually sounds fuller and deeper to you than it really is. That’s why when you hear your voice on a recording, it usually sounds higher and weaker than you think it should.

What makes a recording of your voice sound different?

What makes a recording of our voice sound so different… and awful? 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.

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.

How do you hear your own voice when you speak?

When you’re speaking, you hear some of the sounds the same way. Your voice comes out of your mouth, travels round to your ear, and down your ear canal. 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.

Are You the only person that ever heard that voice?

You are the only person that ever hears that voice.” For most of the sounds you hear — a dog bark, a baby laughing, a car beeping, a giraffe greeting another giraffe — the sound is traveling through the air.