How do i talk quietly on the phone?

Question

I have noticed that some people have the amazing ability to have a phone conversation in a room full of people without bystanders overhearing the conversation. How do you do that?
Everytime I try to lower my voice, i usually have the person on the phone asks me to speak louder and then I'm back to square one.
I always end up having to leave the room to have confidential conversations.
Please help!!!
p.s.-this question is for a landline and yes, I'm worse on the cell phone.

Answer 1

Turn your back to the room.
Find a quiet area in the larger room.
Pitch your voice a bit lower and directly into the phone.
If all else fails, go into another room or outside on the deck.

It can be done.

And kudos to you for even wanting to learn to talk quietly, personally, while on the phone!

I hear many people talking astonishingly personal stuff right out in the open these days. It often makes me wince with embarrassment for some of them. Don't they know everyone can hear them? Don't they care to keep some of that stuff to themselves?

And then there are those who have phone conversations that are monumentally boring and tedious while we're stuck nearby in a line at the bank or the grocery store (watching while their kids wander about, unsupervised...).

I am not interested in a one-sided conversation regarding what that b***h Mia did to you. I don't care about your bunion and what the doctor told you to do for it. It is not my problem if your dog bit the neighbor's kid and may have to be put down (that boy was teasing him, though--and it wasn't the first time--and you told those parents to keep their kid away from your dog!). I **really** don't like it when you're swearing a blue streak into your phone while i'm standing there with my 10 year old son.

I'm all for quiet, private conversations.
I don't want to know your business.
Trust me on this!

Answer 2

Great question. I have the same problem. I can speak in a tone occasionally that others can hear without being so loud but I can never hear the other conversation. Usually have to plug one ear. The best thing has always been to go in another room or out in the hallway.

Answer 3

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When I'm talking to the phone at night.. I just whisper or put a pillow on my head and talk quietly with my phone

Answer 4

I think it is connected to our human ears. You may have some hearing problem. Yes, I know someone talk close to the phone and yet it is so clear on the other end. But for some reason, some people can't do that. It must be the way we hear our voice, not the way we speak out loud

Answer 5

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Answer 6

try putting your mouth closer to the mouth piece. Even if you have to take it off of your ear for a moment. That seems to work, but don't get too close or it will just sound muffled. and don't whisper. nobody hears that.