Bone conduction is the primary reason you are absolutely horrified by the sound of your own voice on a recording, as you are usually the only person who hears it filtering…

Bone conduction is the primary reason you are absolutely horrified by the sound of your own voice on a recording, as you are usually the only person who hears it filtering through your skull; when you speak, the sound waves travel not just through the air to your eardrums, but also vibrate directly through your jawbone and cranial structure, lowering the frequency and making your voice sound rich, deep, and authoritative inside your own head; when you listen to a voice memo, that internal bass boost is entirely stripped away, leaving you with the thin, reedy, squeaky reality of what everyone else has to endure; it is a cruel anatomical joke that tricks you into believing you have the sultry tone of a late night radio host, only to brutally expose you as sounding like a hyperactive cartoon character to the rest of the world!