Your Own Voice: The Instrument You Barely Hear

Published: July 25, 2019, 4 a.m.

I remember the first time I heard myself on camera. I was in high school and I was just coming out the other side of a pubescent voice change. The pitch of my voice was nasally, much different than what I heard in my head. Like a dented flugelhorn covered in wax paper. Is this what everybody else heard? God. It was terrible.

Most of the time we don’t really hear the sound of our own voice. While performers like singers and actors must work with and take great care of their voices, the rest of us very much take our voices for granted. Which is strange, considering our voices and words are how we communicate with the world around us.

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