subconcious about your voice?

Question

I recently got a camcorder for christmas and I was recording me and my family and when I played the tape back I noticed how odd my voice sounded to me. When I'm talking outload and I hear myself it sounds like a normal voice, but on the tape it sounded really raspy, deep, and sort had a stereotypical homosexual slur.
I was just wondering if this might be all in my head, obviously none of you know what my voice sounds like, but has anyone else experienced this?
I really hope I don't actually sound like this.

Answer 1

I have had the exact same experience. In my head I sound completely different than how I sound to the rest of the world. My voice is so annoying it is raspier than I hear in my head and allot more whinny!!! I wanted to die when I heard what I really sound like.

Answer 2

You hear your own voice very differently from everybody else around you. Not only do you hear the air vibrations your voice produces, but your ears also pick up the vibrations that run through your body(caused by your voice). This significantly alters the way you perceive your own voice compared to the way people around you hear it.
Hearing your voice recorded will sound very weird at first, not matter how good or bad the actual quality of the recording is, but it's something you have to get used to.

Answer 3

I think that most amateur recording equipment is not precise as to the voices that are recorded on it. You don't hear what anybody, including yourself, really sounds like.

On the other hand, the cavities and passages in our head modulate our voices so that we don't hear what we sound like - we hear our voices through an echo chamber where everything sounds deeper and more resonant that it comes out.

Answer 4

I hate my voice too... to me I know I have a deep female voice but when I hear it on camcorder it just sounds stupid and obnoxious. I just don't talk much and hate talking on the phone because of it.