It’s largely due to our voices genuinely sounding different to us on recordings than they do as we’re speaking. Sometimes, they sound so different that the speaker can’t even recognize a recorded voice as their own. This discrepancy is because as we speak, we receive that sound both externally and internally. The internal sources include lower frequencies that are excluded from external sources, so other people (and recordings) perceive your voice as higher than you do.Those are the simple facts: Your voice sounds lower to you than it does to other people and on recordings. Why that difference is so upsetting to most of us is not as clearly understood, though. You might be displeased with the tiny emotional cues that you can only pick up by hearing your voice externally, but some res