Why you hate the sound of 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.
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Why do I cringe at the sound of my own voice?

With bone-conducted sounds, vibrations from our vocal cords directly reach the cochlea. Our skulls deceive us by, in fact, lowering the frequency of these vibrations along the way, which is why we often perceive ourselves as higher-pitched when we listen to a recording.
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Is it common to hate your own voice?

Hating the sound of your own voice when played back in a voicemail greeting or video, for example, isn't just a ubiquitous form of self-deprecation — it's a scientific phenomenon. A 1966 study even coined a term for it: voice confrontation.
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Is your voice in recordings your real voice?

When you hear your voice on a recording, you're only hearing sounds transmitted via air conduction. Since you're missing the part of the sound that comes from bone conduction within the head, your voice sounds different to you on a recording.
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What makes a voice annoying?

In a paper published to the Journal of Neuroscience, it is explained how researchers found that being annoyed by certain sounds comes from high levels of activity between the brain region that processes emotion (the amygdala) and the region that processes sound (the auditory cortex).
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Why Do You Hate The Sound Of Your Own Voice?



Why is it weird to listen to yourself?

He says when you are listening to yourself as you speak, your voice does indeed sound different to you. “The acoustical difference is primarily a boost in the low frequencies that you get when you listen to yourself, and other people don't get that.”
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Why do I sound different to myself?

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.
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Can you change your voice?

On your Android phone or tablet, say "Hey Google, open Assistant settings." Or, go to Assistant settings. Under "All settings," tap Assistant voice. Choose a voice.
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Is our voice different from what we hear?

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.
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How does my voice actually sound?

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. As you speak, your vocal chords are vibrating, which in turn vibrates your entire skull.
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Why does my voice change depending on who I talk to?

Summary: People tend to change the pitch of their voice depending on who they are talking to, and how dominant they feel, a study has found. People tend to change the pitch of their voice depending on who they are talking to, and how dominant they feel, a study by the University of Stirling has found.
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What makes an attractive voice?

Some studies suggest that women are more attractive if they have a higher pitched voice. According to The Royal Society Publishing, “Women with relatively high-pitched voices are typically perceived as more feminine, younger and more attractive than women with low-pitched voices”.
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How do I make my voice less annoying?

Some vocal warmups and exercises you can use to relax your voice include:
  1. humming.
  2. lip buzzing.
  3. tongue trills.
  4. loosening your jaw by opening your mouth wide, then gently closing it.
  5. yawning.
  6. deep breathing.
  7. gently massaging your throat to loosen tense muscles.
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How do I get a nice voice to talk?

Tape yourself, and judge what you hear.
  1. Relax Your Vocal Cords to Sound More Empathetic. Once you're breathing well and you know how to create a more balanced sound, pay attention to how relaxed your vocal cords are. ...
  2. Adjust Your Pace to Make Things Easy for Your Audience. ...
  3. Think in Terms of Connecting with Listeners.
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Why does my voice sound beautiful when I sing but when recorded it sounds horrible?

Your voice gets resonance by traveling through your sinus cavities as you sing, which you'll hear as it comes out of your mouth. This gives a slightly false impression of the qualities of your singing voice when you're hearing it from a first person perspective, which is why your voice sounds different on a recording.
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Why do I sound like a kid when I talk?

When we're little, the voice is higher and squeakier and thinner. The reason that is, is because your vocal cords are shorter and thinner, and your throat and the Adam's apple and the larynx, the house for the vocal cords, are all smaller. So, your instrument is smaller. The vocal cords are smaller.
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