We talk to dozens or even hundreds of different people every day. Some of them are our family, some are our friends. Well, have you ever thought that the people we talk to don’t actually hear their own voices the way we do? Of course, the same goes for us. Just like other people, we hear our own voice very differently from what is heard outside. The point where we can understand this best is when we take a sound recording.
Today we’re going to explain to you why the sound you normally hear when you speak is different when you record a sound. Why do we have these differences in our own voice when we can hear your friend’s voice the same whether he speaks normally or not? Let’s find the answer to this question together.
Why do we hear our own voice differently?
Have you ever thought about how a sound is transmitted to the ear? Sound waves make the eardrum and small ear bones vibrate. These bones transmit these vibrations to the cochlea, which sends them as an auditory signal to the brain. We call this transmission, which allows us to hear, “air conduction”. This is how we hear the voices of all the people around us.
At this point, the only exception is ourselves. Because the sound that occurs when you speak is transmitted to your brain differently than the sound that comes out. The reason for this is that in addition to the sound that reaches our brain through air conduction, most of the sound is transmitted through our skull bones. The sound we make while speaking is transmitted directly to the brain as a signal through our bones. At the same time, we also receive the outside sound, and we actually hear one sound in two different ways.
Why do we like the sound we hear ourselves rather than the recording?
Of course, there will be people who like the sound they hear with a recording more, but a large part of them like the sound they hear more. Our own voice is a mixture of a voice we hear both from outside and inside ourselves. This makes our voices much deeper and richer. When the two sounds are compared, we see that the sound coming out is thinner and has a higher pitch. This different sound can be frightening for many people.
The disharmony in our voice, which is our identity, disturbs us.
In fact, for most people, hearing their own voice from outside is irritating. Maybe you sing great songs within yourself, but not being able to reflect this sound outside bores you. In fact, each person’s voice is different and our voice forms our identity. Hearing that the outside voice is different from the self-identity you know can also be normally disturbing.
Today we explained to you why the voice we know is different from the voice we hear from a recorder. If you want more content like this, you can write to us in the comments section.
Source: The Conservation, Science Direct, BBC, The Guardian
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