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I hate my "true" voice (as in voice recordings). Do you like your own voice? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/casualconversation@piefed.social

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So like... I tried to read one paragraph of the manuscript of my memoir... like just a paragraph of my "origin story"... and... I sort of expected it to sound dramatic like a movie character revealing their backstory...

But jesus christ I sounds like I'm still a kid lmfao... I mean as in the way I articulate the words... I sound like a kid/teen... and like not in a cute way, as in the "annoying kid" type of way...

I fucking hate my voice...

Do y'all like your voice?

I tried to record myself sing and ahhh its sounds awful... I cringe at my own voice...

I actually like my voice as the bones vibrate throught my skull, I hate the recording, the "real" voice.

Also I realized I sound so weird when I talk in English... my voice in Cantonese sounds a bit more "normal"... Mandarin is... has a "southern China" accent

But the thing is tho... I comprehend more when I listen to English content, I've been in the US since I was 8...

But when speaking it, I sound very weird...

Oh yea now I'm out of school and haven't really have friends to talk to in English and just hear Cantonese at home a lot... so I might've accidentally "acquired an accent"?

I didn't really record my voice before when I was still in K-12 when I used English more often so idk what my "real voice" sounded like back then, but now it sounds really weird...

Do you get an accent if you don't use a language often then try to talk in it again? Is that even a thing?

Idk if its an "accent" or if my voice is just ugly lmao.

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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Your voice on phone calls/recordings is actually pretty distorted unless you've got a nice recording setup. You have the problem of distortion/compression in recordings and bone conduction when speaking.

The best way to see how your voice sounds in a natural environment with no digital distortion is to hold a piece of cardboard on either side of your head in front of your ears so that they stick out perpendicular to the sides of your head. Manila folders work great for this. Then talk. You'll hear yourself in a way that's closer to how other people hear you, though it won't get rid of the bone conduction.