How different is your own voice compared to when recorded

[StrangerGuy]

Discuss. I thought my voice was good until I recorded and played it back. It sounded like a whiny kid on crack.

 

[Fritzo]

I have a deep nasally voice---didn't think that at all

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Everybody's voice sounds completely different on tape...

 

[TheVrolok]

Everybody's voice sounds completely different on tape...

This. What we hear != what every else hears. Has nothing to do with being on tape, per se.

 

[bctbct]

They say that hearing your own voice is different than what other people hear because of the vibration in your ear drums.

Many people say that my voice and my brothers are very similar...I think we sound totally different.

 

[FoBoT]

it isn't because it is recorded , it is because it sounds different coming in only your ears and not partly through your skull

http://www.helium.com/items/658633-the-reason-your-voice-sounds-different-when-its-recorded

There are a few things that can alter sound. For speaking purposes, the reason your voice sounds different when you speak then when you hear a recording of yourself is simple, it's all in your head. Not that you have gone crazy or anything, but the tissues and bones of your head effect the sound you hear. Your cochlea is stimulated by sound waves through the normal process, but also by the vibrations of your bones from the action of speaking. It causes you to hear yourself in two parts, the first out in the air through sound waves, and the second within yourself as vibrations.

 

[fatpat268]

Yea... I hate hearing my own voice through speakers. Drives me nuts.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

it isn't because it is recorded , it is because it sounds different coming in only your ears and not partly through your skull

http://www.helium.com/items/658633-the-reason-your-voice-sounds-different-when-its-recorded

Yup...

Doesn't anybody do the tuning fork experiments any more?

Basically you strike the fork and listen to it and you hear one sound. Then you strike it again and hold it to your jaw, viola different sound. The reasons are outlined by FoBoT.

 

[Schadenfroh]

My accent is thick on the recordings I hear of myself.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

very.

People say my brother and I sound identical except for the speech patterns we use sometimes. But when i hear my voice recorded, it sounds nothing like his voice sounds to me.

 

[Rubycon]

I'm too scared to try this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B9rDZZaKs8

Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6)

 

[DanDaManJC]

so is our recorded voice what we sound like to other people?

 

[Kalmah]

I tend to believe that I put alot of personality and emotion into my social interactions.. but when I hear a recording of me It's mono-tone Ben Stein-style..

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Someone in my high school told me I sound like Norm Macdonald. Considering I find Norm Macdonald hilarious, I took this as a compliment.

 

[darkxshade]

I've never told this to anyone but I'm mute

 

[Udgnim]

my recorded voice blows