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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Answer 1

When you speak, you hear your voice that resonates within your own body/skull, so you hear it ‘from the inside’, so to speak. So you usually hear it with a deeper tone than what it sounds for other people.

For others, your voice is heard ‘from the outside’, so with less resonance, hence why it sounds ‘higher pitched’.