Do Most People Hate Hearing Their Own Recorded Voice?

[Tom9348]

So I’m currently creating a course which involves screen recording on my computer and talking, only when I play the video back and hear my voice I can’t help but think it sounds awful. Is it just because I’m hearing my own voice that I think it sounds cringe?

[barry1010]

I do!

[DTCwordfan]

should try my singing, Tom. If I put up a recording on here, I'd be liable for an enormous bill for damaging Abers' computers/whatever.....

[douglas9401]

Imagine how the rest of us feel. :-)

[MargoTester]

Yes a lot of people do, I think because your voice never sounds the way you imagine it does. Even worse for me was the first time a had to to the tannoy system in a big DIY store, took me ages to pluck up the courage

[Barsel]

I can remember the first time I heard my recorded voice and I was asking, 'Who is that?'
Although it isn't very often I hear my recorded voice these days, I still don't think it's me.
I've even asked other people, 'Does that sound like me?'
The answer is always yes!

[Gromit]

Yes.
I had to make some YouTube infommercials and opted to use text to speech on my computer and record that. The software is very good.

[elliemay1]

Mine is awful, I cringe when I hear it on a recording. My husband recorded the message on our Answer phone as I just couldn't do it!

[Gromit]

I originally read the script for this short promo ad, and it was bloody awful. The voice on it now is my a recording of my computer reading the script.

[anneasquith]

I like my recorded voice, but I don’t recognise it as mine .

[bhg481]

You hear your own voice by bone transmission as well as air transmission like everybody else, which is why it sounds different to you. I add commentary to videos I make and I've got used ti it now.

[Tom9348]

Ok so when I release my course will clients not think it sounds weird?

[smurfchops]

Oh my voice is awful…

[david small]

Do not begin a post with the word So. It irritates. My voice sounds good.

[barry1010]

No, they won't, Tom. If you had a weird voice people would have let you know by now

[piggynose]

I also have to make a video of my recorded voice! Did it about 8 times, and each one was worse than the previous one!!!

[andy-hughes]

I have been a freelance music journalist for over forty years, and i have heard my voice at least once a week during that time - working in radio, and also recording my interviews.

I have just about got used to the sound of my voice on tape, but i know i am never going to like it, ever.

As advised, we all sound very different to others - including a microphone - than we do to ourselves, but that applies to everyone.

I am advised that my voice is attractive, but obviously I never hear it that way, so I just put up with it, and try not to analyse the sound closely, just think about what I need to hear it say, and screen out my feelings.

[Lie-in King]

When I heard tapes (no video alas & alack) of my performances in panto, I didn't think it was me. Folk said I had a lovely voice & it seemed I was the only one that didn't like it.

It must've been ok, as I once did an impromptu stint in a piano bar & I was asked to come back, to my astonishment.

My Twankey & Trot are still spoken of in hushed whispers in select circles, luvs... ;-)

[andy-hughes]

LIK - // My Twankey & Trot are still spoken of in hushed whispers in select circles, luvs... ;-) //

Ooo-er, and indeed, missus!!

[tomus42]

The voice you normally hear is the one that reverberates around the bones in your head and consequently has a nice bassiness to it.

When you're on tape you lose all of that and just hear what is coming out of your mouth. A more whiny and nasal sound in my case, so I do hate it.

[Barsel]

There are people we have spoken of before on TV that we cannot stand because of their voices.
I wonder what they think of their voices.