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

[Marci Carpenter]

I’m glad Betty is home!

Marci

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> On Jun 25, 2021, at 6:17 PM, Les Fitzpatrick via NFBWATlk <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> That is pretty much the same with me, I got my first tape recorder when I was 14, and have had several since and I would tape myself singing and playing the piano and guitar also. At first I thought someone was just playing a trick when I was a family friends house who recorded me I didn't believe that could possibly be me, but it was. Also Betty is home and just tired from not sleeping much at the hospital. 
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> From: NFBWATlk <nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Bennett Prows via NFBWATlk
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> Subject: Re: [NFBWATlk] Why do we hate the sound of our own voices? - TheConversation - May 17, 2021
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> Thanks for this. I have been fascinated by recording most of my life. I bugged my parents incessantly to get them to buy me a tape recorder when I was 9 or 10 years old. You know, the reel to reel tape recorder. When I got it, I was extremely puzzled that I didn’t sound like I spoke. I was amazed that I sounded so different when I was listening to myself. Having done a lot of recording for radio programs like the NFB of Washington’s radio reading service program that occurred once every month for an hour, and some live stuff when I was my high school’s host on a local radio station, ETC,   I got used to hearing myself and it didn’t seem so bad after all. Appreciate this article as it explains a lot I never realized about how we hear.
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> /s/
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> Bennett
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> From: Kris via NFBWATlk
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> Subject: Re: [NFBWATlk] Why do we hate the sound of our own voices? - TheConversation - May 17, 2021
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> Thank you for the article! I completely empathize with this feeling.
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> 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 
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> 😃 Kris 
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