why does your voice sound different from when its recorded and from the voice you hear when you speak?
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Because the voice you hear when you speak is largely through bone conduction (your vocal cords vibrating your neck and skull, which transmits directly to your inner ear).  The voice you hear in a recording (or over a microphone) is the voice other people hear.
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we hear our own voices in two ways: through air, and through bones- skull bones-. Sound waves travel faster within solid media- like bones- than within air. unlike moving through solids. they get scattered and deviated within air.
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Is it due to an accent because your primary language is different than the one you are trying to speak?  If so, practice!  Get a movie in the language you are trying to speak and listen to the dialect and copy it.  If you are speaking your "native tongue" and people can't understand you, I would seek professional help in finding out what sounds are giving you a problem.  A speech therapist is trained to help you learn to make sounds correctly.
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Check under Start/Programs/Accessories then Entertainment/Volume Control and make sure your microphone and/or line in is not 'Muted'.  \n\nTest your microphone - does it work in other programs (for instance, /Accessories/Entertainment then Sound Recorder)?  If not, you may have a faulty microphone or it may be plugged in to the wrong opening on the pc.
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I'm not quite sure, but I think it has to do with replicating sound waves.  It will create reverbrations, or echoes, if you will, on a recording system.  That will simulate the effect of having the state of the art equipment in recording studios.\n\nI got this from the site posted below.\nAcoustic Mirror™\nTake sound processing to a new level with the Acoustic Mirror™. Don't settle for the unnatural effects of artificial reverb units when you add reverberation to your sound files. With Acoustic Mirror you'll add the acoustical coloration of real environments and sound-altering devices to your recordings.\nAcoustic Mirror is the ideal software solution for audio recording studios, mixing and mastering engineers, motion picture and television producers, game developers, and multimedia content creators. You'll expand your creative potential with Acoustic Mirror's extensive library of impulse responses. We collected these extremely high-quality acoustic signatures by measuring many diverse environments over hundreds of hours. Apply our responses to your recordings, or create your own. The result is professional stereo imaging and realism that is uncanny.
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If the problem happens intermitmently like you described, we can rule out the settings (Here I suppose you know how to check the audio settings of your machine).  If so, it must be the hardware.  Since audio cards are cheap (You can get one for $20 and the sounds are pretty decent), install a new sound card.
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When we talk air passes out from our lungs through our vocal chords and is caused to vibrate and you hear the words. When you mix helium with air the resulting mix is less dense so as you breathe out the timbre of your voice is altered. The speed of sound in a less dense helium/air mix is higher than in just air. You are increasing the speed of sound of your voice when breathing out this less dense mixture and this increase in speed will affect the frequencies that make up your 'voice'.\nIf the frequencies are affected the timbre is affected too. A more dense gas may have a very weird affect.\nStrictly speaking although most people say it is the pitch that changes, it is the actually the 'timbre' which is changed, as your vocal chords produce the same shapes and therefore the same pitch.
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Your larynx (vocal cords) are relaxed and loose, which means they vibrate slower, which results in a lower sound.\n\nWhen you are tenser, your larynx tightens, which makes the pitch of your voice go higher.\n\nPay attention when you argue with someone; their voice will go up in pitch as they get more and more stressed out.
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Your speakers make be too close to a cam with a mic?....  There should be an adjustment on your speaker icon (accessories in windows).  Try turning it down with the slider and see if it makes a difference.  Also try plugging in a pair of earphones and see what it sounds like.  If it sounds OK from the earphones, it definitely is your speaker setup or maybe the speakers themselves.
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you hear your voice through your skull and dont hear what other people do
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you don't hear your "real" voice because when you speak/sing, the bones in your ear vibrate and give you a distorted sound. When others hear you, they only get the sound waves and hear what you really sound like. Singers don't hear their real voice, they only hear the notes they sing.. I would suggest going to a voice instructor
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play with your sound settings a bit\ncontrol panel>sound settings \nmake sure the mike is enabled and volume is up. \n\nalso, make sure u plugged the mike in right spot
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Because of the vibrations of your voice vibrating your head causes it to sound different. Not only that, the sound waves coming from your mouth is aimed away from your head then when you hear it back its aimed toward you, so its gonna sound different because your head isnt vibrating from your own voice while your hearing it.
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This is due to microphone feedback. Look at this article for information on how to eliminate it in Windows: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200108/ai_ziff10423
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So, you're saying that you can't hear properly and your voice is deeper? Have you got a cold? You might have an ear infection or a blockage. This can make your voice sound different to you but nobody else will notice. Get your ears syringed or try earex or maybe antibiotics. Sort your ears out first then see if your voice improves.
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check ur audio connector. if this does not solve it use your control panel. click on START/CONTROL PANEL/AUDIO DEVIECS, SOUND,AND SPEECH/ADJUST THE SYSTEM VOLUME . This solution is for those using Windows XP. But those using other windows edition should try START/SETTING/AUDIO DEVIECS, SOUND,AND SPEECH
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Hi-Lo! A MtF (male to female) transsexual ringing in on this-\n\nYour voice is not psychological, but physical- the way you sound has more to do with how you use it, and less than what you think about it.\n\nSome facts-\n\n1) Most men (or male bodied persons) can successfully sound like a woman- the upper male voice range does overlap the lower female range by 2 octaves.\n\n2) Men tend to speak in more of a monotone- women tend to speak in more of a "sing-song" voice- their pitch goes up and down instead of staying in a narrow range like a man.\n\n3) Men tend to have more side frenquencies than women have in their voice. If you take a recording and feed it through a sound processor so that the output is three slightly different pitches combined, the resulting sound will sound like three people talking in unison. Women tend to suppress side frequencies and have a single speaking frequency.\n\n4) There are many women who have deep voices- like, for instance- Eartha Kitt, Sally from Third Rock from the Sun, Tallulah Bankhead, Jamie Lee Curtis, and others I can't think of right now.\n\nAs for changing your natural voice- you don't change that- you are just taught how to use it differently.\n\nHope this helps =^.^=