In principle, this is so. It may be just not familiar to some, but often people had a better opinion of their voice, until they heard it on the recording. Now, with the proliferation of video and audio recording media, people from an early age get used to how their voice is heard from the outside, but earlier one could hear their voice for the first time at the age of 30.
So why don't we like the sound of our voice on the recording.
According to new research from University College London, there is scientific evidence that "your voice is unpleasant to you, accept it."
Basically, your voice sounds completely different from how you hear it.
When you hear other people speak, sound waves travel through the air and into your ears, causing your eardrums to vibrate. Your brain converts these vibrations into sound.
When you speak, your vocal cords also vibrate - which means that your brain perceives two sources of sound: the sound waves generated by your voice and the vibrations of your vocal cords.
People around you hear only one, the external sound source of your voice. When you speak, you perceive your voice in two ways - through the external (auditory canal, eardrum, and middle ear) and internal (head tissue) sources.
But when you listen to the recording, only the external channel is involved, and not the combination of the two sources that you are used to.
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In fact, when we speak, others hear the sound of our voice as if coming from the speakers, while we ourselves hear our voice differently, because it distorts when sound waves and vibrations in the ligaments pass through cavities in our head.
When we record our voice and then play it back, we hear our voice from the speakers without internal sound.
Martin Birchhall, professor of laryngology, explains: "Sound travels through the sinuses, all the empty cavities in our head and middle ear, which changes the way we hear sounds compared to what other people hear."
This means that we do not know how we actually speak, how our voice sounds.
“When we hear our own voice on tape, it sounds kind of weird, and often we don't like it at all,” says Birchhol.
“We get used to the sound we hear in our heads, although it is distorted sound. We build our own image and voice image based on what we ourselves hear, and not at all from reality."
Thus, the sound you hear in the recordings is your "real" voice, but you only hear it when you play audio or video where you speak.
If you don't often have to record your voice, then somehow you have to find the courage and admit that the voice you hear on the recording is how it actually sounds.
If you work in the radio or are a journalist and often report, you may need to force yourself to listen to the tapes and get used to the real sound of your own voice. You can also train your own voice and change it if you absolutely don't like it.