phone voice

[87112]

Is it true or not true that hearing your own voice on the phone is different than someone else hearing it?

 

[76duster]

Absolutely yes. Youtube what voice teachers or singing teachers day about this.

 

[badbadboy]

True

The technical answer is the phone system is optimized for an audio bandwidth of 300 Hz to 3.4 kHz.

In free space the human ear can hear frequencies from approx 100 Hz to 12 or 15 kHz. Depending upon age, how well they have taken care of their hearing etc.

Bottom line all those bits 0's and 1's are compressed to fit within the 300 Hz to 3.4kHz BW. You lose a lot of information but still are discernible to people who know you.

 

[westcoast555]

Is it true or not true that hearing your own voice on the phone is different than someone else hearing it?

Your voice always sounds different because you are hearing it in your own head - acoustically it's such a different environment than what somebody hears over a phone or even two feet away from you.

People don't like their voice when they hear it because it sounds a lot more 'tinny' and thin than when it resonates inside your own head.

It's like listening to music through expensive headphones while somebody next to you is hearing it at a distance from a small speaker

 

[87112]

Your voice always sounds different because you are hearing it in your own head - acoustically it's such a different environment than what somebody hears over a phone or even two feet away from you.

People don't like their voice when they hear it because it sounds a lot more 'tinny' and thin than when it resonates inside your own head.

It's like listening to music through expensive headphones while somebody next to you is hearing it at a distance from a small speaker

When I listen to my own voice, its like hearing someone learning English or something. Got to get over it.

 

[Larry Storch]

Your voice always sounds different because you are hearing it in your own head - acoustically it's such a different environment than what somebody hears over a phone or even two feet away from you.

People don't like their voice when they hear it because it sounds a lot more 'tinny' and thin than when it resonates inside your own head.

It's like listening to music through expensive headphones while somebody next to you is hearing it at a distance from a small speaker

Yes. Technically we hear our own voices mainly through conduction. The sound is transmitted to our eardrums through the bones of our skull as well as the air; so we hear it differently than everyone else. When we hear a recording it doesn't sound 'right' because we are only hearing part of it.