Sound Of My Voice

[Bazile]

I don't like the recorded sound of my voice - it sounds different , recorded .

Why do i hear a difference - am i just imagining it , do you think ?

Do you think the same when you listen to your voice ?

[aelmpvw]

i don't recognise my recorded voice either?

[snags]

'Do you think the same when you listen to your voice ?'

Yes.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130913-why-we-hate-hearing-our-own-voice

[Buenchico]

I came across an old cassette tape the other day, with a recording of me being interviewed on Radio 4. I enjoyed being reminded of the interview but I hated listening to my voice!

[bhg481]

When you speak you hear your own voice partly by bone-transfer through your skull. When you hear a recording this element is missing, so it sounds different to you.

[seekeerz]

Likewise !! When I heard the recording for our answer phone my immediate reaction was 'that's not me, I don't sound like that ' Yes you do - daughters reply ...they could recognise the voice, I couldn't !!

[EDDIE51]

No you are not imagining it, you hear your own voice direct through the bones of your skull, which makes it sound a lot different. I am the same, I do not like the sound of my voice as it sounds to others, who hear it through sound waves in the air.

[sunny-dave]

Yes - I've got some recordings of me on the radio being interviewed about Alzheimer's care - I just played one back and (like Chris) enjoyed the memory, but couldn't understand why I sounded like I came from Watford :-((

[mccfluff]

i sound like rula lenska crossed with miss piggy

[bhg481]

macfluff - better than looking like rula lenska crossed with miss piggy

[mccfluff]

well...i didn't like to say :-D

[rowanwitch]

Everyone who knows us is amazed how alike my mother and I sound. Considering I have spent most of my life in Birmingham and Essex, and lived with a Lancashire woman who is half Polish and a North Wales chap with a scouse accent it surprises me too.

[rowanwitch]

Like the description McFluff.... I would have said Stephanie Beacham and Lucy Liu myself

[andy-hughes]

I have been listening to my voice on radio, and on recorded interviews, for nearly forty years, and I still hate it!

I am advised that my voice is attractive, but I can't hear that myself.

[Buenchico]

I've got a 'microphone voice' (which is about an octave lower than I usually sound) which I used when I was a relief presenter on BBC Radio Sheffield. (I also used it for platform announcements when I worked on the railways). I regard it as far better than my regular voice although I know that it makes me sound older.

[Old_Geezer]

Normally you hear yourself with most of the soundwave travelling through your bones. For some reason that sounds different to when it reaches your ear by air. I also suspect that as you are used to your accent you don't notice it when speaking, but it comes through loud and clear when you critically analyze a recording.

[kvalidir]

Naturally I'm light RP with a touch of West Country.
'Okaaay yaaah, me 'andsome' :)
More often if I hear myself it's for a role so could be anything but I'm not a great lover of my voice and often get a shock when I see myself too, you think you're all Vivienne Leigh and turns out your more Jo Brand :)

[murraymints]

nooooooo way...minnie mouse with an Edinburgh lilt !!

[Bazile]

Anyone like the sound of the voices they can hear in their head ?

[tamborine]

I sound like princess ann, even with 'naff orf'