[NFBWATlk] Why do we hate the sound of our own voices? - The Conversation - May 17, 2021

Sat Jun 26 00:50:30 UTC 2021

Boy.  So do I.  I totally hate my voice.

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Thank you for the article! I completely empathize with this feeling.

I have an occasion to record my own voice and then have to listen to it. It is difficult to do this because I think I sound not that great. So I concentrate on the con tent instead of the sound. Other people tell me I sound fine. I guess I’m just too critical of my own products 

😃 Kris 

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> On Jun 25, 2021, at 11:25 AM, Becky Frankeberger via NFBWATlk <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> When I get hearing aids, especially this last time, I tell them to 
> turn down my voice, yeak. You are hearing yourself like the article 
> says plus a tiny non precise amplifier. Oh, trust me I don't sound 
> like my hearing aids tells me I do. Turn the darn things down and 
> record yourself. You do sound different, but not that tin tiny swelch sound through the hearing aids, eak!
> 
> 
> Thank you Noel for the wonderful thoughtful articles you send us, warm 
> smile.
> 
> Becky    
> 
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> Noel via NFBWATlk
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> Subject: [NFBWATlk] Why do we hate the sound of our own voices? - The 
> Conversation - May 17, 2021
> 
> The below article is not blindness related, but I found this 
> interesting or somewhat disconcerting, and it is audio-related, so I'M passing it along.
> 
> https://theconversation.com/why-do-we-hate-the-sound-of-our-own-voices
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> Why do we hate the sound of our own voices?
> By Beth Daley
> The Conversation
> May 17, 2021
> 
> As a surgeon who specializes in treating patients with voice problems, 
> I routinely record my patients speaking. For me, these recordings are 
> incredibly valuable. They allow me to track slight changes in their 
> voices from visit to visit, and it helps confirm whether surgery or 
> voice therapy led to improvements.
> Yet I'm surprised by how difficult these sessions can be for my patients.
> Many become visibly uncomfortable upon hearing their voice played back 
> to them.
> "Do I really sound like that?" they wonder, wincing.
> (Yes, you do.)
> Some become so unsettled they refuse outright to listen to the 
> recording - much less go over the subtle changes I want to highlight.
> The discomfort we have over hearing our voices in audio recordings is 
> probably due to a mix of physiology and psychology.
> For one, the sound from an audio recording is transmitted differently 
> to your brain than the sound generated when you speak.
> When listening to a recording of your voice, the sound travels through 
> the air and into your ears - what's referred to as "air conduction." 
> The sound energy vibrates the ear drum and small ear bones. These 
> bones then transmit the sound vibrations to the cochlea, which 
> stimulates nerve axons that send the auditory signal to the brain.
> However, when you speak, the sound from your voice reaches the inner 
> ear in a different way. While some of the sound is transmitted through 
> air conduction, much of the sound is internally conducted directly 
> through your skull bones. When you hear your own voice when you speak, 
> it's due to a blend of both external and internal conduction, and 
> internal bone conduction appears to boost the lower frequencies.
> For this reason, people generally perceive their voice as deeper and 
> richer when they speak. The recorded voice, in comparison, can sound 
> thinner and higher pitched, which many find cringeworthy.
> There's a second reason hearing a recording of your voice can be so 
> disconcerting. It really is a new voice - one that exposes a 
> difference between your self-perception and reality. Because your 
> voice is unique and an important component of self-identity, this mismatch can be jarring.
> Suddenly you realize other people have been hearing something else all 
> along.
> Even though we may actually sound more like our recorded voice to 
> others, I think the reason so many of us squirm upon hearing it is not 
> that the recorded voice is necessarily worse than our perceived voice. 
> Instead, we're simply more used to hearing ourselves sound a certain way.
> A study published in 2005 had patients with voice problems rate their 
> own voices when presented with recordings of them. They also had 
> clinicians rate the voices. The researchers found that patients, 
> across the board, tended to more negatively rate the quality of their 
> recorded voice compared with the objective assessments of clinicians.
> So if the voice in your head castigates the voice coming out of a 
> recording device, it's probably your inner critic overreacting - and 
> you're judging yourself a bit too harshly.
> 
> 
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