Have you ever listened to your own voice? And we don't mean the internal one, but your voice on a recording or voicemail? Do you hate him too? Well, welcome to the club that 99 percent of the people in this world belong to. But why do we hate our own voice? Why is the voice we hear in our head so different from the one on the recording? We'll get to the bottom of this below.
Why our voice always it sounds so different, when we hear it on the recording? Why is something completely different from what you expected? As always, he has this time science a completely logical explanation. When you speak, you define the voice air and bone conduction. They take care of the first sound waves, which travel from your mouth to your ears, they are "to blame" for the rest vocal cords, which cause vibrations throughout the skull and finally they also reach the inner ear. In doing so, they mainly stock it with low frequencies.
But when you listen to your voice on a recording, you only hear it through one "medium", air conduction. And since bone conduction decreases, low frequencies drop out of the game altogether "raises" your voice.
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More on where the reason why comes from we hate our own voice or why your voice is like that different from what you hear in your head, but in an interesting video clip. And yes, in case you were wondering if you really do sound like that, the answer is unfortunately 'yes'.
