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It’s easier to change your hairstyle or makeup than it is your voice. Most people also hear their voice about an octave lower in their head. It resonates differently internally than it does out in the air. A recording of your voice is like looking in a mirror and seeing something different than what you see most of the time.
I think I sound reasonable talking. On recordings I sound like the gayest, campest homo in the fucking universe.
Even though I'm gay it's still cringe af.
It's fucking hilarious to think I went years denying being gay but when I listen to my voice it's like "WTF - it's SO fuckign obvious!"
Dude same but with my Mexican accent. I know I have a tad of an accent but it's not bad in my head, the moment I hear my voice in a recording it's like I'm listening to fucking speedy Gonzales or whatever his cousin slow rat was.
Slowpoke Rodriguez!
Every time I hear my voice it sounds like I just huffed a liter of helium. Apparently my wife doesn't mind but damn man. My shit is ANNOYING
“Gay” voice is a strange thing. What it sounds like in the head is nothing like what it sounds like to everyone else.
I once heard that the mirror thing is why we tend to dislike photos of ourselves - it's because we are not mirrored there and this unconsciously looks odd to us.
Fittingly to this theory, I know a lot of people who think they only look good in selfies and no one else can make a good picture of them. Maybe that's connected.
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.
https://gizmodo.com/why-your-voice-sounds-different-inside-your-head-1620981647
“This added resistance causes the waveform frequency to drop, lowering the pitch of the sound you hear internally”
That article almost makes sense, except it doesn't explain why it's the other way around for some of us.
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.
Yeah, it's pretty deep as other people hear it. I hate how I sound in recordings.
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.” 😁
That is why they also mirror selfies, so it matches what you see in the mirror.