For example, vibrations of your voice may encounter cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that sits within the brain and spine, which can influence how you perceive your voice. All these variations and more make it so that your voice will always sound different to your own ears than it sounds to others.
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.
When recorded, you might hear your voice sound shallower than you're used to. This is because the recordings are not affected by the internal resonance and bone conduction that affects how your voice sounds. However, the way your voice sounds on recordings is the way people perceive it in real life.
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.
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.
The anatomy of the skull makes it so that if we are hearing our own voice live, we truly do hear it differently than a recording. The cognitive dissonance of hearing a voice that your conscious brain knows is yours but not automatically recognizing yourself is perfectly natural: but it makes us uncomfortable.
When we hear our own voice through bone conduction, we perceive a deeper sound. However, when we hear a recording of our own voice we are only hearing it as sound that reaches our ears though the air. We hear it through just one pathway, rather than the two that we are used to.
To try out Feeser's trick, simply straighten your hands in front of your ears, just behind your jaw bone. Now speak! See how it seems to throw your voice, but in a slightly higher pitch? That's what you sound like to other people.
There is interference alike on the sound waves that go from your voice to the recording device, and those than go from the speakers to your ears. What is this? All of these interferences added up is what makes hearing your own voice on a recording so weird and strange. But it doesn't mean it's bad.
Bhatt explained that the dislike of the sound of our own voices is physiological and psychological. First off, audio recordings translate differently to your brain than the sound you are used to when speaking. The sound from an audio device goes through the air and then in your ear (also known as air conduction).
While it's normal to hate your voice when you hear it, it doesn't have to always be that way. There are things you can do to either adjust your voice or your perception of it. While it's possible they won't get you to the point of loving your voice, you can at least work towards making it bearable to listen to.
Truth be told, we all sound a little bit different to other people than we think we do. Vocal coach Chris Beatty explains that the issue is we get a preview of what our voice sounds like coming up the side of our face, directly into our ears. Along with that comes some inner vibration in the ear and head.
The researchers discovered that a lower pitched voice is associated with individuals who are more dominant, extrovert and higher in sociosexuality (more interested in casual sex). The findings were true for women as well as for men. The results were published in the Journal of Research in Personality.
Your voice identifies you as uniquely as your looks and your fingerprints do. Although some people might sound quite a bit alike, no two voices are ever exactly alike. We each have a unique voice because so many factors work together to produce that voice.
You hear your own voice differently
That means that you receive two sources of sound: the sound waves that travel into your ears from your own voice, as well as vocal cord vibrations.
You're “swallowing” your voice. It is probably resonating toward the back of your mouth, making it loud in your inner ear but not moving the air outside your mouth much. The best trick for projecting your voice is to visualize the sound as coming from a couple of inches in front of your mouth.
It is quite simple: The sound you are used to hearing is quite different to what other people hear. Your voice is literally “in your head”, what you are used to hearing is very different to what comes out of your mouth.
However, don't stress if you think your voice sounds a little weird – only 38% of people immediately recognize their recorded speech. Plus, studies have found that people tend to rate their own voices far more negatively than others do.
Causes. The auditory perception of a person's own voice is different when the person hears their own voice live and through recordings. Upon hearing a recording of their own voice, a person may experience disappointment due to cognitive dissonance between their perception and expectation for the sound of their voice.
“The 'real' voice that is ours is our gut feeling, that inner voice we have that makes us feel when things are right or wrong, that we have to guide us through life,” writes Matilde Wergeland for Balance. “This voice and feeling is incredibly important to listen to since it is always right.
Also known as internal dialogue, inner monologue is a voice inside your head. It occurs due to certain brain mechanisms that make you hear yourself talk without actually speaking. This “little voice in your head” is a common occurrence, but not everyone experiences it.
Different brains experience internal speech differently (and some not at all) Most people have some level of internal monologue going through their heads throughout their day, however there is a small group of people who do not experience any self-talk at all.