Why is the recorded sound of a person different from his/her real sound?

Answer 1

The quality of the sound equipment is the difference. Recording studio grade equipment sounds a lot more like the person performing than your average dictaphone.

Answer 2

The way you hear your voice is different from how others (or microphones) hear it. You get some sound from the air, some from bone conduction, and perhaps some through the Eustachian tube, although this is usually closed. The summed frequency responses of these routes is very different from that of air alone. The air route you have is less direct than the route others facing you have, and seems to attenuate the highest frequencies the most. The bone route filters out the higher frequencies, and I believe the Eustachian route makes a smaller difference. You can get some idea of these differences by making sounds under various conditions like very near a sound-reflecting surface, with your ears plugged, wearing headphones hooked to a microphone, and forcing a yawn to open your Eustachian tubes.

Answer 3

What is recorded is what everyone else hears, that is your real "sound" or voice. What we hear when we talk is slightly different due to bone conduction of the sound waves from our body to our ears that alters how our brain perceives our voice.

Answer 4

its not. you hear yourself different on tape because you are not used to listening to yourself. to everyone else, your tape sounds just like your normal voice.