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How come my voice sounds different when I record it on a voice recorder, than in real life?

Both sound real different, what's happening?

Is it just me or is there really something that is in the works?

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  • GJ
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    When you hear your voice as you are speaking or singing, it is being filtered thru bones and tissues in your head. It resonates differently to your inner ear.

    When you record, you are hearing it as others would, resonating through the air and reaching the ear externally.

    It takes a little getting used to when recording.

    I was surprized by how much I sound like my brothers.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The reason a person's voice sounds different when spoken and heard is because when you talk the sound resonates in your head. When you hear it from another source it sounds much different because you're only hearing it and you don't have the interaction from inside your head. I hate my voice when it's recorded.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Voices sound distinctive over the telephone. Its no longer one's mind's eye that there is a distinction. i'm no longer incredibly particular why there is any disagreements in this. in case you want to be responsive to whether a telephone voice is often the comparable as an in-person voice purely hear to a chum over the telephone or her answering gadget and learn it to her voice in person. regularly sounds distinctive, doesnt it? so a techniques as your voice sounding deeper somewhat than mushy like your friends say, perchance what they meant grew to become into that your voice is gentler and quieter, yet mushy doesnt inevitably propose greater. And as for you no longer liking your voice, i think of everybody has a organic aversion to the sound of their own voice on recording. As grew to become into stated formerly the way your voice sounds is distinctive than the way it sounds on your ear. So if individuals like your voice, have confidence that. besides there is no longer something incorrect with having a low voice. that is tiresome to hearken to those that sound like Alvin the Chipmunk all day. and you people who say voices on the telephone are constantly the comparable in actual life, please tell me what form of telephone you're making use of by way of fact i'd like to have a telephone with that style of sound high quality.

  • 1 decade ago

    When you talk, you are also hearing the vibrations of your bones which make a different sound that what other people hear. When you hear a recording, you are hearing what others hear when you talk.

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  • 1 decade ago

    no...no one likes the sound of their own voice...it's kinda like THAT's what i really sound like?!?!

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