Why does our voice sound strange on a recording?
Voice's Secret Track
Why does our voice sound strange on a recording?
You press play on a video of yourself talking, and — wait, WHO is that? That reedy, nasally stranger can't possibly be you. Your real voice sounds richer, deeper, more like… well, YOU. But here's the twist: that "stranger" on the recording? That's what everyone else has been hearing all along.
When you speak, sound waves ripple out through the air toward other people's ears. That's the "air conduction" route — vibrations travel through air, hit their eardrums, done. Clean and simple. But YOUR ears get a bonus track that nobody else receives.
