Why do the voices sound different when you listen to them through the wall?

Remember that sound is a mechanical vibration. The sound hitting the wall makes the wall vibrate and the other side of the wall makes the air on the other side vibrate. A good solid wall won’t disperse the vibrations too much, so you will get some sound through it.

Is a recording of your voice more accurate?

The recording will be as accurate as the mic and recorder allow (and probably also sound reverberant because of normal room reflections if you aren’t minimizing them), BUT your experience of your voice is always going to be different from even an accurate recording because of bone conduction through your skull, which …

Is my voice the same as I hear it?

So while you might think you’re hearing your own voice, what you’re really hearing is your voice after it has passed through your head which makes it sound very different. When you hear your voice on a recording, you’re hearing it as other people do, without all the reverb that your head normally puts on it.

What makes a recording of your voice sound different?

What makes a recording of our voice sound so different… and awful? It’s because when you speak you hear your own voice in two different ways. Greg Foot explains all. The first is through vibrating sound waves hitting your ear drum, the way other people hear your voice.

Why do I Hear my own voice differently when I speak?

The sound of your own voice reaches your brain differently when you say it versus when it comes from somewhere else. Probably the biggest reason you hear your own voice differently is due to bone-conduction. When you talk, your vocal cords create vibrations in our skull that reach the cochlea (the ear bone).

Why does my voice sound lower than it actually is?

When you talk, your vocal cords create vibrations in our skull that reach the cochlea (the ear bone). This makes your own voice sound lower and richer than it actually is. When you hear with your ears you are using air-conduction. You can actually replicate this by putting your fingers in your ears and talking.

Why does my voice sound different when I Wear my hearing aids?

Try it. With hearing aids, there are two factors that cause this effect. First, you are hearing it louder with your ears (through air-conduction). Second, you are hearing higher pitches in your voice that you have been missing.