How come the sound of your voice that you hear out of your mouth is different than what other people hear?

Question

I noticed that the voice that i hear of myself is different from what I hear when I record my voice. Then, I asked other people if this is my voice and they said it is. So does the voice you hear of yourself have a different sound than how others hear it?

I noticed that the voice that i hear of myself is different from what I hear when I record my voice. Then, I asked other people if this is my voice and they said it is. So does the voice you hear of yourself have a different sound than how others hear it?

Update: Good! I thought there was something wrong with my hearing because I hear myself in a lower pitch than how other people hear it. But also when I hear my own voice it sounds more clear. Hmmm, but how does vocalists know how to hit the right notes?

yehoshooa adam, can u explain that in simpler terms please

Answer 1

Your jaw bone and bone conduction.

Now one hears their voice as others hear it because a lot of the sound is conducted by their jaw bone and skull so it distorts the tone.

I have a minor problem due to extensive dental work when I was a child. My jaw bone was shifted and I don't have as good a conduction as most people do so I have a louder voice than normal. It sounds normal to me, but to people who don't know me well I am speaking way to loud.

When kevpet2005 mentions resonating sounds they are talking about the same thing as bone conduction, only I am explaining what the resonating material actually is. (No offense intended I just try to give the best answer.)

Answer 2

that's real !...once you talk Your Voice Sounds are Being Echoed by & Resonate around the countless Cavities on your cranium however the guy listening to you in basic terms Hears The organic Sound Of Your Vocal Chords Projected Thro' The hollow area Of Your Mouth

Answer 3

Because the vibrations of the sound you produce and also the movement of your tissues is conducted through your facial bones to your ears. This distorts the sound that is coming from the air. Everyone else on hears the sound vibrations moving through the air. You hear both this vibrations and the subtle vibrations inside your body.

Answer 4

Because it resonates inside your head. Most people hear their own voice at a slightly lower pitch than other's do because of the bones in our skull resonating with the vibrations of our vocal chords.

Answer 5

Yeah its a strange one that, I always thought my voice sounded ok until I recorded myself and blardy ell, the first thing I thought was geezus I have to change the way I sound!!!

Answer 6

i think it has something to do with the fact that you are hearing your voice echoed in your own head instead of hearing it carried through the air like everyone else hears it. it has a different tone.

Answer 7

the greatest contributor to this phenomonem, is the due to the pressure equalization, of the eustation tube from the junction of the nasal thorax junction, that leads to the inner ear. since it function is pressure eualization, it essencialy attempts to cancel out the sound of your speaking, by attrempting to suppess the pressure sound wave of your own voice. but since their is a slight difference in arrivial time, it won't completly cancel out your voice.

Answer 8

Because your voice is vibrating through your head and that changes the tone in your ears.

Answer 9

the texture and wieght of your skin retard some aspects of it,

you see you voice shoots out in front and your ears are on the sides ,, so in between is where most of the voice you hear comes from

Answer 10

Its to do with the sound vibrations travelling faster through solids than through the air. When you talk the sound travels through you till it gets to the ear which will sound slightly different than sending that sound through the air to someone else.