Like who the fuck is this guy and why the fuck he is so weird and he talks weird…
oh shit that’s me… fuck… why am I so weird?
Like who the fuck is this guy and why the fuck he is so weird and he talks weird…
oh shit that’s me… fuck… why am I so weird?
It’s unfamiliar, that’s all.
Normally, you don’t hear what your voice really sounds like. You hear a distorted version because your mouth and your ears are connected to the same body. When you get used to the distorted version, you begin to consider it normal. When you hear the real one for the first time, it sounds unfamiliar.
I wonder if your brain then starts to align how you hear your own voice and how you hear it when it’s recorded. If it starts to sound more the same for you.
Would also be really weird if you for a long period only heard recordings of you speaking, and when you start speak again, you get equally, or probably more, freaked out by your own voice, as when your hear it recorded.
Yeah, the reverse would be super freaky. However, arranging circumstances like that would be very hard. Like, how do you prevent yourself from hearing your own speech for an extended period of time? Either way, that would be quite an experience once you switch back to normal and you can hear yourself normally again.
Exactly, everyone feels like they sound weird. Except me, I do just sound weird.
Would we still find it weird if we didn’t know that is our own voice that is being played? Like if somebody plays a recording of me from last week where I said something general that everybody could have said?
I did try this, and I can still tell. I sent someone a voice message, then told them to re-send it to me at a random time. Could still tell it was me.
I did, however, get around it while voice training? I’d spent a week speaking in a different voice to my usual, then when I recorded something in my usual voice it didn’t give the effect you usually get when listening to your own voice. I did get it when listening to a recording done with the trained voice, though.
Probably not. My guess is that you would consider that voice just as unfamiliar as the voice of some Rando you’ve never met before.
That’s it. I’ve watched my own videos dozens of times by now and it’s not weird anymore. But I distinctly remember that feeling OP’s talking about frim the first few video’s I had to watch.
How long did it take to get used to hearing your real voice?
Im not sure. A while, maybe up to half a year, doing one or two videos per week. But I tried not to rewatch every video, because it was so awkward. Sometimes I have to though and at some point, in that first half year, it stopped being awkward.