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Thread #98291   Message #1944717
Posted By: Deckman
22-Jan-07 - 04:55 PM
Thread Name: Hearing your own voice recorded
Subject: RE: Hearing your own voice recorded
There IS a very real reason why you don't like, or even recognize your own voice, and it has to do with physics:

When you listen to someone elses voice, all your sound comes through your ears. When you "hear" yourself, you actually are hearing yourself TWO ways, one through your ears, but much more importantly, through your own bones. And, your skull is full of holes, sinus cavities, etc. It's these various sized and shaped "resonance chambers" that give your voice it's characteristics.

So you hear more of you than the outsider hears. And, it also takes some serious hours of training to recognise the sound of your voice from a recording, let alone to learn to "like" it. CHEERS, Bob