How does your voice sound to others?

Does your voice sound the same to others as it sounds to you?

I did not know the answer but I am fortunate to have a friend, Dr. Jesse Villarreal, who is a speech expert. So I can tell you what he said in reply to your question.

The answer is no. When people hear recordings of their own voices, they are almost always surprised. And that is likely to happen even though others think the recordings are very good.

Here is a possible explanation. Other people hear your voice as sound waves carried in the air. You hear your own voice that way, too. But your ears also receive sound waves carried through the bones of your head. Since the sound vibrations of your voice reach your own ears by two different pathways, they probably do not arrive at exactly the same time. Anyway, the effect of the two pathways is that your voice is likely to sound a little different to you than it does to someone else.

I am glad that both of us have learned something more about our voices.