eli5 Why do people’s voices sound different to them than they do to everyone else?
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There is a thing called Eustachian tube.
It’s basically a tunnel from your mouth to your eardrums.
When we speak, we hear ourselves from both sides of eardrums
1. Outside – sound comes from our voice cords, through our mouth, through air and into our ears
2. Inside – sound comes from voice chords towards the mentioned Eustachian tube to our eardrums (opposite side of eardrum, compared to no. 1)
So we hear ourselves in a slightly deeper tone than we actually speak, and the recorded voice we hear is how others hear us.
Yes, I get embarrassed every time and wonder why people don’t punch me more often when hearing me speak with this annoying voice
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