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

The sound that everyone else hears is of your voices vibrations in the air whereas you hear a mixture of it vibrating through the air and through your own body as the sound is produced internally and therefore vibrates at a lower pitch.