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Most people also hear their voice about an octave lower in their head.

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.

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reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
gizmodo.com/why-your-voice-sounds-different-insid…

“This added resistance causes the waveform frequency to drop, lowering the pitch of the sound you hear internally”

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- TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That article almost makes sense, except it doesn’t explain why it’s the other way around for some of us.
  
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TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, it’s pretty deep as other people hear it. I hate how I sound in recordings.
  
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  - TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.”
    
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