Why Does Our Voice Sound Different on Recordings?

Question

When observing one’s voice on a recording, many people commonly ask the question, ‘Why does my voice sound so different?’ This occurs because the sound waves reach the voice box as well as the skin, i.e. the speaker’s resonant bones and all the other parts and tissues. Hence, this creates an altogether different effect in terms of timbre.

Answer 1

That recording makes you wonder what is wrong with your voice, does it not? You want to know the reason? While hearing yourself, you do so with the internal bone structure that your skull has. The bones in your skull house a variety of low-frequency pitches that can’t be heard but rather are localized. You are shaping your voice through sound waves and these internal constructions which makes your recording very different from how you see yourself.

Comments

Actually in my head I have a high pitch voice but in reality my voice is really deep

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I have always known that people's voices sound different to them when played back on recording. What I never could understand, is why everybody always seems to hate their voice on tape, even if they have a really good speaking voice.
 I wonder if Morgan Freeman hates his voice too?

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"Our voices are higher than we'd like them to be"
Oh so that's why your voices is a white Barry White