Why does your voice sound different when played back to you?

Question

And what voice do other people hear? The voice that you hear when your talking or the voice you hear when it's being played back to you?

Answer 1

Other people hear something more like the tape recorded voice. Your voice sounds more resonant to you probably. That's because you hear it after the sound is conducted through the bones of your skull.

Answer 2

Because the sound from your vocal cords resonates through your skull and creates a more muffled version of your voice.Plug your ears and say something and you will hear this.The answer to the second question is that other people hear the voice that is being played back.
Note:
The voice you hear when you talk is a combination of what you hear when you talk with your ears plugged and the voice being played back.In real time you hear both of these versions simultaneously.

Answer 3

Because the microhone's you're using and all the respective equipment doesn't pick up/record/playback all the sound that you make.
AND you are hearing yourself normally with your voice vibrating your ears thru your head while the sound is coming into your ears aswell, so it sounds a little different that way too.


HOPE THIS HELPS

P.S. You do this on 20k worth of mic+recorder+amplifier+speakers & you'll almost think you've been cloned.

OR try recording yourself on the computer and playing it back with good inner ear headphones
and it'll sound alot more like you.

Answer 4

When you talk you hear the voice through vibration in your eardrums. When you hear it being played back to you it's your voice minus the vibratiions so the one being played back to you is the one closest to what everyone hears. Remember that vibrations in words are percieved based on your eardrums and everyone has a slight difference but not enough so we pretty much hear the same as each other.

Answer 5

It is because you are hearing it, as everyone else hears it, with two ears and two ear drums less the resonation and vibration that is added and amplified, doubled so to speak, when the sound is created by your chords, in your throat, and brought out via your sinus cavities & mouth and your breath.

Its like the difference between yelling into an enclosed tunnel and yelling into an open cavern and hearing your own echo back to you in delayed time.

Your head is its own cave... the echo is contained, amplified and fed into the part of the brain that filters and recognizes sound directly... not through the ears like when you hear everything else... It is processed differently almost as if it is muted.

Your own voice in your head is called the "Ideal voice." and the other is called the "true voice." Everyone hates their true voice because it doesn't sound like who they relate to being themselves through their voice!


Basically... you hear your own voice through liquid and soft tissue so it is toned down and muted. They way you sound on tape is the way everyone else hears you.

Answer 6

The thing is that when you speak, you hear your voice through your own skull. This causes your ears to hear your own voice differently. The playback on the tape is what your voice actually sounds like.

Answer 7

sometimes my voice is recorded to be utilized in video clips. So i'm around recording and have experienced what you're speaking approximately. What you will possibly desire to remember is how our ears artwork. We hear sound waves getting into our ears. yet we additionally hear those waves, while they arrive from our very own voice, coming interior the process the tissues of our physique and interior the process the tubing in our heads. Even our bones habit vibrations and those are sounds too. So the "shade" of the sound of our voice would be diverse because of the fact we upload numerous those issues to the vibrations that are completely interior the air. We additionally sound a sprint diverse because of the fact of the place the microphone is and how it possibilities up the sound. If I stand close to to the microphone interior the sound studio and communicate, the sound looks extra latest or close than as quickly as I stand quite a few ft far off from the microphone like as quickly as I do a scene the place i'm taking part in as an actor and likewise my voice is heard. So as quickly as we checklist our voice on a microphone, we get often the sound close to the microphone. yet as quickly as we hear our very own voice, besides the sound conduction interior the bones of our head, the vibrations interior the process the tubes and tissues and interior the process the air, we additionally could have contemplated sound from the room. Sound recording engineers artwork complicated to make sound recordings sound like we expect them to sound and then we are saying that it is common.

Answer 8

When you hear your voice played back to you thats how you really sound. When you are listening to yourself speak it sounds different, but only to you. Probably cause your ears and mouth are so close together. Does that even make sense?..lol

Answer 9

you may be too young to remember a singer Johnny Ray -- he could not bear the sound of his own voice and thus he sang with his ear blocked (he was deaf in one ear) .. answer to your question .. when you speak/sing you hear the sound through your "Bone" amplifier (your skeleton) this amplification is not heard through mechanical means thus the difference - to hear a close approximation of your voice play the sound back in a room with lots of cardboard boxes (empty)

Answer 10

When you hear your own voice( not recorded) you are hearing mostly through bone conduction from your jaw to the bones in your ears, not through the air as sound waves. When you are listening to your recorded voice, it is all sound waves, not conduction.