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Why do we tend to hate the sound of our own voice?
Thanks for asking. Have you ever played back a voice note you've sent to a friend and come to the shocking realisation that your recorded voice sounds nothing like you thought.
It's nasal, higher pitched and all things considered just a bit unsettling.
It's like you don't even believe that you're listening to your own voice.
Well, if that sounds familiar, rest assured you're not alone.
Many people actually dislike hearing the sound of their own voice.
The phenomenon is down to a combination of physiology and psychology and it's known as voice confrontation.
What's actually going on physiologically then?
It's the result of a complex process within our auditory system, which relies on two main routes, transmission through air and through bone.
You see, those two mechanisms greatly influence the way we hear our own voice.
Let me elaborate. When you speak, sound travels through the air to your ears, and makes your eardrum vibrate.
but at the same time, the sound also travels through the bones in your skull which boosts the lower frequencies.
This dual transmission explains why your voice sounds deeper and warmer to you than it does to anyone else.
So what's different when we play back a recording?
When you listen to a recording of yourself, only air transmission is involved.
Since you're no longer speaking, bone conduction disappears so the higher frequencies stand out more.
As a result, your voice sounds sharper and quite different.
Hence the disconnect.
And that's not the only factor.
The quality of the microphone also plays a role.
A cheap mic, like the one that's fitted in standard earphones, tends to distort the sound even further.
It's enough to really make you shudder, isn't it?
Well, quite. And it's also amplified by the fact that we tend to be our own worst critics and fixate on flaws that other people don't even notice.
Talking to The Guardian about voice confrontation in 2018, University of Essex psychologist Dr. Silke Paulman said, I would speculate that the fact that we sound more high -pitched than what we think we should leads us to cringe as it doesn't meet our internal expectations.
Our voice plays a massive role in forming our identity.
And I guess no one likes to realise that you're not really who you think you are.
Even going as far back as 1966, a study published in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology concluded that voice confrontation also arises from a person realising that their voice reveals certain aspects of their personality.
Like anxiety, indecision, or anger for example.
Do others hear my voice the way I sound in a voice note?
They do indeed. When you speak, other people hear your voice the same way you hear it in a recording.
That's because for them, the sound is only traveling through the air.
There's no bone conduction involved.
So really, you're the only one who ever hears your voice as being deeper than it actually is.
Let's end on a positive note.
The good news is that your friends therefore don't hear any difference between how you sound in a voice note and how you sound when you're in front of them.
Likewise, you probably won't notice anything strange when you listen to their messages either.
Try to bear that in mind and don't be too critical of yourself or your voice in future.
There you have it. Now you know why we tend to hate the sound of our own voice.
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