Reader Christah wrote to need , “ Why do our voices sound different to us than they do to other people / on recording ? ” And Jenny call for on Facebook , " Why do we hate the sound of our own spokesperson ? "
For many of us , there are few thing more painful than hearing a transcription of our own voices . They do n’t voice like we think they should . They ’re tinnier , higher and justnot good . The tape measure ( or mp3 ) does n’t lie , though , and the agency we call up we sound is n’t how we really sound to everyone else . This is a barbarous trick that happens because of the ways that sounds can locomote to our inner ear .
Every sound we hear — birds chirping , bee buzzing , the great unwashed utter , and recordings — is a waving of pressure moving through the air . Our outer ear “ catch ” these waves and funnel them into our heading through the pinna canal . They come to the ear drum , which startle vacillate , and those vibrations travel to the inner capitulum , where they ’re interpret into signals that can be sent via the auditory face to the brainiac for interpretation .
Good Vibrations
The inner ear does n’t get stimulated only by extraneous good wave coming down the capitulum canal , though . It also pick up on vibrations happening inside the eubstance , and it ’s a combining of these two things that makes up the speech sound you get word when you talk .
When you speak , vibrations from your outspoken cord vibrate in your throat and mouth , and some get transmitted and conducted by the bones in your neck and principal . The privileged capitulum respond to these just like any other vibrations , turning them into electrical signals and sending them to the wit . Whenever you speak , your inner spike is stimulated both by intimate vibration in your bones and by the sound coming out of your rima oris and traveling through the air travel and into the ears .
This combination of vibration coming to the inner spike by two dissimilar paths generate your voice ( as you normally hear it ) a unique character that other , “ air only ” sounds do n’t have . In finicky , your castanets raise deeper , lower - frequency vibrations and give your vox a fuller , bassier character that ’s lacking when you take heed it on a recording .
This story originally appear in 2012 .
