Recording your own voice

[Reine]

Im just asking, have any of you noticed just how different your voice sounds when you record it and play it back? Just the other day, I was messing around with mum's new digital camera and I decided to record my own voice. I was surprised to hear how deep my voice was! I said one of my friends favourite quotes "Why fear death, when death surrounds you?" and recorded it, and when I played it back, it was completetly different! It sounded like some noble guy, I couldnt believe it was me!

Ive sent my friends sample, and they all agree on the 'noble' part. One guy said I sounded like a movie star! Can anyone shed some light on this? I just do not beleive that is what my voice is like to others.

[Dreddz]

Same with me, on some of the videos on my phone i sound alot different, also with Microphones...

[DarknessFromAbove]

I hate the sound of my voice on recording, it sounds really whiney

[omnitarian]

Yep,, my voice is really deep when I hear it recorded. I don't like it at all.

For the curious, the reason your voice sounds so different is because when hear yourself talk, most of the sound you hear comes through your skull, instead of through the open air. So it sounds radically different.

[Shoden]

My voice sounds extremely deep when I record different from what I hear.

[Old Manus]

Then the paranoia sets in where you think you sound a bit gay

[Dignified Pauper]

I sound a tad gay.

[Reine]

O_O wow

So my voice REALLY is like that? OMSG

Well, my friend Elizabeth loves my voice, and so do most of my friends that I sent it too...

My voice, Elizabeth said its sounds all "posh and noble" and that it sounded like I have an accent! However, when I speak, I hear it as an ordinary common voice...thanks for that info Omnitarian..

[Resha]

I hate the sound of my voice on recording, it sounds really whiney

Aye! Me too!

[Sasquatch]

I was surprised to hear how deep my voice was!

Well there comes a time in a young man's life where he starts noticing changes in his body ...

Anyway. My voice sounds a little deeper when I record it, with a barely noticable lisp. I don't realize it otherwise, and I'd imagine most people who talk to me often don't notice it, but I do when I hear my recorded voice. I hear more of a Southern accent when I hear my recorded voice, too.

[Giga Guess]

The explanation for this is you're generally accustomed to hearing your voice resonating not only through air, but through your head as well....when your hearing it from a recording, you're hearing it via air alone, thus it sounds different.

[Venom]

My voice sucks!

[GunbladeMaster]

I HAVE a very good hosty voice

[Rye]

My voice sounds really weird and dumb when I record it. xD

[Madonna]

Whiny. My voice is whiny. It sounds sexier in my head. ;__;