Personally, I’m not a fan of either, so it’s always been a little interesting to me to run into people that are more averse to hearing a recording of their voice.
(Also is there a dedicated term for audio-only voice recordings? 🤨)
Personally, I’m not a fan of either, so it’s always been a little interesting to me to run into people that are more averse to hearing a recording of their voice.
(Also is there a dedicated term for audio-only voice recordings? 🤨)
It’s easier to change your hairstyle or makeup than it is your voice. Most people also hear their voice about an octave lower in their head. It resonates differently internally than it does out in the air. A recording of your voice is like looking in a mirror and seeing something different than what you see most of the time.
I once heard that the mirror thing is why we tend to dislike photos of ourselves - it’s because we are not mirrored there and this unconsciously looks odd to us.
Fittingly to this theory, I know a lot of people who think they only look good in selfies and no one else can make a good picture of them. Maybe that’s connected.
Is this true? It’s the other way around for me. Well, I don’t know if it’s an octave, but my voice sounds significantly deeper in recordings than I hear it as I’m speaking.
https://gizmodo.com/why-your-voice-sounds-different-inside-your-head-1620981647
“This added resistance causes the waveform frequency to drop, lowering the pitch of the sound you hear internally”
That article almost makes sense, except it doesn’t explain why it’s the other way around for some of us.
Do you have a low voice? I’m a bass and I’m the same way. My voice in recordings always sounds lower (and less expressive!) than it is in my head.
Yeah, it’s pretty deep as other people hear it. I hate how I sound in recordings.
My wife tells me, “You sound good.”
I told her, “Sure, but if I sounded to everyone else the way I sound in my head, I would be famous.” 😁
That is why they also mirror selfies, so it matches what you see in the mirror.