How does it feel to listen to your own voice?

Mine, when I hear it in any way recorded, such as on the answering machine, sounds different to my ears than it does when I am simply speaking. An odd sensation in some ways lol. Karen

It's always felt weird listening to my own voice. So weird that for a long time I hated the sound of my voice and could not listen to anything I recorded unless I truly forced myself. Fortunately, I was able to get over it somehow and sometimes I wonder what the problem was (I really don't know lol).

lol..I've done it and it doesn't sound like me. Atleast it didn't sound I expected me to sound. That's probably the way I sound to others ..though I might not think so. But then I also realized that I can change my voice and sound different with different modulations.

When I listen to my own voice recorded, I am pleased with it because it does not sound so good. But when I listen to others' recorded voice, it sounds good to me. I don't know why, still trying to figure it out. lol

When I leave voice messages, my voice is recorded, and my voice does not sound like me either. I sound like a teenager. I sound so much differently on the phone and in person too. I get the chance to hear what I sound like, no wonder people don't take me seriously..

Hi, The discussion you have started was really good. I have went to interview before six months and the interview process is some of interesting facts. We need to speak for some topic and it will recorded and played back to us. I spoke well and then HR ask me to come to his cabin. I went there and he played the recorded voice. During interview, i know we should not laugh. When i heard my voice, i can't stop my humor and started laugh. I think that was really funny thing. Then i realized my speech. happy mylotting. have a nice day.

Well I am on Singsnap and People say I sound good but I am not to sure lol I have done a few on there but not been back in ages

I have left messages on my own answering machine for my husband and heard myself and I don't think I sound like me. My husband says it sounds just like me. I guess we hear ourselves differently? I think my voice sounds deeper on a recording. I did have a job once where I had to use a overhead speaker system to page people and it took me a while to get used to that and not feel uncomfortable hearing my own voice.

When I first heard my voice, I was thinking that it wasn't me but when my mum told me that it was my voice, my reaction was wtf!! How can my voice be so bad. Well, these days when I hear my voice, specially in English language, I feel very proud of it. I like my voice now!

When I record my voice it does not sound like me. My voice has a deeper sound to it then my real voice does. I think it is just the recorder and it does not matter if I leave a message on an answering machine or record my voice a tape recorder. I could not believe it was me.

Well the machine does play tricks!! On a mobile phone recorder, your voice may sound nasal, but on a microphone, completely different. I too had the same experience. I always thought that my voice was nasal, but surprisingly, my voice sounded so different and melodious that I feel in love with my own voice.

My son is in the habit of recording our conversations on mobile and whenever he replays that conversation, I leaves me wondering is that my voice? Because while talking my own voice seems sweet to me, but while listening to recorded version, it sounds very shrill and it embarrasses me.

I don't mind; I sound like Yogi bear.

I have the same feeling at the first time I heard my own voice when I am watch my sisters Wedding DV. It is strange And it just shocked me. the voice is so different from what i heard when i talk.But my sisiter said it was my voice. oops! It is awful!

When I was in high school, I used to have a cassette recorder with me and recorded all classmates on a field trip. Whenever I hear my voice on a cassette, I would feel awkward because my voice sounds cartoonish, and everyone who would hear my voice would make fun of me. I cannot help having a low and quacky voice, although I do not like talking very much.

As a child I had a pen that was also a toy. We could record our voice and I believe slow it down or speed it up accordingly. In any case, my voice was so odd to my own ears, and even now listening to myself on the phone it's much the same. I hate my voice, and often run away or cover my ears when I hear myself on a recording. Sometimes though if I talk for so long I begin to think I'm hearing my voice as others do. I don't like it, though I suppose a lot of other people also do not like their voice. I think recordings maybe make the pitch of a person's voice higher.

LOL...I think it sounds strange to hear my voice too. I didn't even think it sounded like me at all. Even my recording on my answering machine is weird to me.

Yes I listen to my voice many a times when I was working in call centre , for qulaity assurance often our voices were recorded and we were made to listent to it. And one more thin that I would like to add is that I sound very different and youner on the phone :)

When I was a few years younger and in a different era of my life, I used to go to the bar and sing karaoke every week. The KJ was a friend of mine and he would tape for me so I could hear how I sounded. As I listen to those recordings now, I too have a hard time believing that they were actually me. I love to listen to the tapes now because I never have the opportunity to get out and sing, but I still enjoy it so much.

When I heard my tape recorded voice for the first time it sounded very strange to me. I think this difference between our voice as we hear it when speaking and the recorded voice is because we hear our voice through different media. In the first case, the head gives some resonance, we hear it from the inside. In the second case,we hear the voice with our ears.