eli5 Why do people’s voices sound different to them than they do to everyone else?

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eli5 Why do people’s voices sound different to them than they do to everyone else?

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Omg yes! I can answer this one!

Do you ever listen to a recording of yourself and think, “who’s that?” or “that’s not what I sound like, is it?”

Ok so you are the only person in the entire WORLD who hears your voice the way you do.

Here’s why:
Your head is full of air and liquid, both excellent conductors of sound. When you speak, sing, or vocalize at all you are hearing it 2 different ways. Your voice travels from your mouth to your ears for the external sound. However, the sound waves travel through all the air pockets in your face like sinus cavities, mouth, and nose as well as the liquid or gelatinous textures of your eyeballs and brain. Giving you the internal sound.

This is why your scream isn’t painful to hear like other people’s because the internal sound waves equalize the external summer’s appointment there pressure in your ears.