“My voice sounds pretty normal in my head,” he said. Many people have heard their recorded voices and reeled in disgust (“Do I really sound like that?”) Others are surprised how high their voices sound. “The effect of this is to emphasize lower frequencies, and that makes the voice sound deeper and richer to yourself,” Professor Hartmann said. This variety of routes would naturally “introduce variation in how people perceive their own voices,” he said, and would probably explain why Walter and I are always surprised by our recorded voices. Professor Hartmann said, however, that he was surprised that I was always so surprised.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2017 13:08 UTC