Almost everyone has experienced the same strange moment: you record a voice note, play it back and immediately think, “Do I really sound like that?”
Your recorded voice can seem higher, thinner or simply unfamiliar compared with the voice you hear while speaking. It is not necessarily because the recording is inaccurate. Science says your brain normally hears your voice through a combination of sound traveling through the air and vibrations traveling through your body. A recording removes an important part of that experience.
