Yes, that’s what you really sound like — but it’s not as bad as you think.
If you’ve ever heard your voice played back to you and hate it, you’re not alone.
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"That's pretty universal," said Aaron Johnson, assistant professor at the Department of Speech & Hearing Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "I don't know that I've ever met anyone who's starting off in vocal training that likes to listen to themselves."
That means that even professional singers go through it, and as Billboard charts might indicate, they've probably gotten over it.
To understand why you can't stand hearing your own pipes, there are two complementary explanations: the mental and the physical. With some practice, you can overcome hating how you sound.
Let's break it down into bite-size chunks.
How your voice works
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When you talk or sing, your two vocal folds (also known as vocal cords, which are folds of tissue) flutter, and those vibrations journey through your vocal tract to the back of your throat.
The sound that comes out depends on the position of each player involved: the shape and length of that tube, where your tongue is, if your lips are parted or rounded, and so on.
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