YES! I kind of been wanting to do some Let's Play videos on Youtube but I'm dreading hearing my voice. I'll have to end up relying on my fetching looks if I want to do those ;D
This could open up a new field of employment-voice doubles. Actually I think this may have happened during the transition from silent movies to "talkies" where some very popular silent movie stars had difficulty with the quality of their voices and they were dubbed over.
I can entirely empathize with this and I've been running a Youtube channel for over three years now. I run out the room if any of my friends or family play my videos in front of me.
I can't stand my own voice. It's something to do with it sounding differently in your head for "you", and sounding different for everyone else once it leaves your head.
My voice always sounds way more gay than I think it does. I mean, I am gay... but I somehow think I've managed to make it sound deeper. I really hate my voice.
I remember as a kid, my brother and I taped ourselves and I was so horrified and shocked by the sound of my voice- a bit like the opposite of those videos they have of cochlear implant people who always look so happy to hear their own voice for the first time.
And no I don't sound like a strangled monster, just the unfamiliarity of the sound I equate with my own voice.
Yes, people not clapping their hands over their ears and screaming NOOOOoooo every time I speak tells me that I may have a version of body dysmorphia that is just voice related lol
I was in puberty when I first listened to a recording of my voice. I have no idea how I got that far without hearing it but my reaction definitely confirms this.
I commented on how bad my voice sounded on the video and all I got was awkward silence...
I'm fine with my voice now (mostly) but this really recked me.
In college, I was taught that when we speak, because the sound is coming from inside us as well as being received by our eardrums, all our voices automatically sound lower and deeper to us in the moment of speaking than they sound without the accompanying from-inside vibrations.
When you speak, vibrations from your vocal cords resonate in your throat and mouth, and some get transmitted and conducted by the bones in your neck and head... Whenever you speak, your inner ear is stimulated both by internal vibrations in your bones and by the sound coming out of your mouth and traveling through the air and into the ears.
This combination of vibrations coming to the inner ear by two different paths... enhance deeper, lower-frequency vibrations and give your voice a fuller, bassier quality that’s lacking when you hear it on a recording.
I hated my voice at first when I started by podcast, but got pretty used to hearing it after a year of listening. It definitely does take some getting used to. I really want to try recording myself singing to hear what that sounds like, but am also afraid that it will sound completely different from what I hear.
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YES! I kind of been wanting to do some Let's Play videos on Youtube but I'm dreading hearing my voice. I'll have to end up relying on my fetching looks if I want to do those ;D
This could open up a new field of employment-voice doubles. Actually I think this may have happened during the transition from silent movies to "talkies" where some very popular silent movie stars had difficulty with the quality of their voices and they were dubbed over.
Not to mention Phoebe Buffay's famously dubbed hit single, "Smelly Cat."
I can entirely empathize with this and I've been running a Youtube channel for over three years now. I run out the room if any of my friends or family play my videos in front of me.
Oh man hearing my voice in my videos makes me cringe. Funny to hear about you Surreal. When I watch your vids I'm always envious of your voice.
haha, I'm sure you'll do great. Gluck on those vids!
I appreciate it. It will be awhile though, I have to get a PC and everything first, ha.
oh pc's are expensive...I'm more of a laptop fan myself
I can't stand my own voice. It's something to do with it sounding differently in your head for "you", and sounding different for everyone else once it leaves your head.
Yeah I really had to get over that when I first sang in bands.
Edit: with recordings, I mean.
Yea I remember reading that somewhere. It might have to do with the vibrations in your jaw/head or something
My voice always sounds way more gay than I think it does. I mean, I am gay... but I somehow think I've managed to make it sound deeper. I really hate my voice.
I am always saddened by how much I sound like a deep voiced teen-aged girl when I record myself.
I sound like Tina Belcher, and I'm 22. :'(
It's a horror show.
ohh I'm sure its not that bad
I remember as a kid, my brother and I taped ourselves and I was so horrified and shocked by the sound of my voice- a bit like the opposite of those videos they have of cochlear implant people who always look so happy to hear their own voice for the first time. And no I don't sound like a strangled monster, just the unfamiliarity of the sound I equate with my own voice.
yea me too, but then I realize how others treat me with my voice and I'm like, even though I may not like it, it doesn't seem to bother others much
Yes, people not clapping their hands over their ears and screaming NOOOOoooo every time I speak tells me that I may have a version of body dysmorphia that is just voice related lol
I was in puberty when I first listened to a recording of my voice. I have no idea how I got that far without hearing it but my reaction definitely confirms this. I commented on how bad my voice sounded on the video and all I got was awkward silence...
I'm fine with my voice now (mostly) but this really recked me.
Same here, the saying "That sounded better in my head" gets a whole new meaning.
So true, so true
In college, I was taught that when we speak, because the sound is coming from inside us as well as being received by our eardrums, all our voices automatically sound lower and deeper to us in the moment of speaking than they sound without the accompanying from-inside vibrations.
A google search brought up this explanation.
Absolutely, when someone is fixing to play a video. I don't want to hear it.. AT ALL. Everyone says that's stupid. But it just sounds weird to me.
haha yeah...I always cringe when I hear myself talking on playback
I hated my voice at first when I started by podcast, but got pretty used to hearing it after a year of listening. It definitely does take some getting used to. I really want to try recording myself singing to hear what that sounds like, but am also afraid that it will sound completely different from what I hear.
I have always wondered how do singers are able to perfect there voice even tho it sounds different to them