Why does listening to my own voice after recording by myself feel weird and hard to hear?

When we speak to or listen to others, the propagation process of sound is as follows: the speaker's throat vibrates and makes sounds, which are transmitted through the air to the ears of the listener, through the outer ear, ear canal, and eardrum, and finally the sound is heard.

When we speak, we hear our own voice, although we also use the same organs, but the transmission process in the middle is a little different, it is caused by the vibration of the vocal cords, and then causes the vibration of other parts of the body, and the comprehensive vibration acts on the transmission in our body, and then we hear our own voice, which is called bone transmission. And, because low-pitched sound travels much more easily through the body than in the air, you'll hear yourself a little richer and brighter than the recorded one. That is, it sounds better.

Normally, the sound we hear is transmitted to our ears through the bones, but if the sound we hear after recording is transmitted to our ears through the air, it is different.

After recording by yourself, listening to your own voice, it feels weird, it's hard to hear, and I think it's because of this that you need to improve yourself.

Because we usually hear our own voice through our own bones, it is slightly different from the air transmission of the recording, and it may be that we are used to the way we usually hear our own voice.

It is normal for the sound to be distorted after the transmission of the air and the propagation of the radio waves, as for what you said is difficult to hear, it is just that the voice you appreciate does not match your own voice.

When I listen to myself, a considerable part of my voice is bone conduction, and the vibration of my voice in my head is different from the vibration of my voice that is transmitted and recorded. So, when you listen to your own recordings, you find it weird.

Sound can enter our own ears in two ways: through air and through bones.

The first is that when listening to someone else's speech, the eardrum vibrates through the airborne sound waves, which are transmitted to the cochlea through the three ossicles, and the spiral-shaped cochlea is filled with fluid, which can convert these vibrations into nerve impulses that can be received and interpreted by the brain to form sounds.

Most of the sounds we hear about ourselves are transmitted through the bones first. After vocalization, the sound will travel to the brain through our body tissues and bones, and the longer wavelength sound, the so-called bass, is more likely to pass through our body tissues to reach the ears, so we feel that our "original" sound is thicker and richer than in the recording, and your brain plays a role of "deceiving" itself, which is why we always feel deeper and more "magnetic" when we listen to our own voice.

The unpleasant truth of the recording:

First of all, when I change the roll to speak, the auditory system can determine whether the roll sound is pleasing to the ear, so as to help the mouth produce the sound that we think is good. Ordinary recording devices, such as mobile phones, cannot make adjustments to the recording.

Moreover, you are used to the sound of your own speech, but rarely listen to your own recordings, and humans will feel resistant to unfamiliar sounds, so you will find the sound in your recordings difficult to accept.

How sound reaches the inner ear:

The auditory mechanism of the ear is located deep in the inner ear. Sound reaches the inner ear in a few different ways. Most of what we hear is the result of air conduction. Something that can make sound produces sound waves, which travel through the air.

These sound waves reach your outer ear and travel through your eardrum and middle ear to the cochlea, a fluid-filled spiral-shaped organ in the inner ear that transmits sound waves to the brain. However, passing through the air is not the only way for sound to reach the inner ear. The bones and tissues of your head can also conduct sound waves directly to the cochlea.

When you speak, your vocal cords produce sound waves that travel through the air to your inner ear. However, the bones and tissues in your head also conduct these sound waves directly to the cochlea, so the sound you hear in your brain when you speak is the result of two modes of transmission.

Because the way sound is conducted has changed.

Normal people perceive sound through two mediums: bone or air. The sound of one's own speech is transmitted to the brain through the skull.

The sound of listening to your own recording is transmitted to the brain through the air medium, and there will be many factors that affect the sound in this process, so you will feel that the voice is different from your usual speech.