Our own voices sound different to us than they do to everyone else due to the below.
If we wanted everyone to hear our voices the way we do how would we go about it, what sort of frequency changes would we need to do.

However, when you hear yourself speak, those vibrations also take another, more direct route to the cochlea. The sound is conducted through the mechanical features of the cranium, including the bone and soft tissues. Traveling through these denser structures, the lower-frequency vibrations become enhanced, leading to a significantly deeper sound reaching the cochlea. When this is perceived by the brain, it, therefore, makes our voice appear fuller, and of a lower pitch, than the original sound made in our larynx.

If your voice sounds different to you, then when someone impersonates someone, and some people can do it very well, what do they hear?

furious said:

If your voice sounds different to you, then when someone impersonates someone, and some people can do it very well, what do they hear?

Interesting, I wonder if an impersonation sounds realistic to the person being impersonated

Cymek said:

Our own voices sound different to us than they do to everyone else due to the below.
If we wanted everyone to hear our voices the way we do how would we go about it, what sort of frequency changes would we need to do.

However, when you hear yourself speak, those vibrations also take another, more direct route to the cochlea. The sound is conducted through the mechanical features of the cranium, including the bone and soft tissues. Traveling through these denser structures, the lower-frequency vibrations become enhanced, leading to a significantly deeper sound reaching the cochlea. When this is perceived by the brain, it, therefore, makes our voice appear fuller, and of a lower pitch, than the original sound made in our larynx.

I would be interesting to run this as a real experiment. Get someone to say something. Then record it with different levels of low frequency enhancement and get them to guess which voice is the “unaltered” version of their own voice. Once the baseline volume enhancement is established, you could refine it with more complicated filters.

The alternative would be to record the sound conducted by bone directly by attaching a microphone to the jaw near the ear. Ideally use a differential pressure transducer to measure only the difference between the sound coming down from above and that coming up from below.

> Interesting, I wonder if an impersonation sounds realistic to the person being impersonated

Not according to Maxwell Smart. ;-) But for anyone familiar with a recording of their voice, probably..

Wait, if our voices sound ‘deeper and of lower pitch’ than they actually are*, how do people sing in tune?

*tautology alert.

I’m sorry, I mis-quothed.

…fuller, and of lower pitch.