The recorded voice and my actual voice

I recently discovered that when I hear my voice recordings, it sounds different from what I hear when I speak. Our voices are transmitted to others by vibrating the air that surrounds our mouths.

However, the sound we hear when we speak is a combination of the sound transmitted through the air and the sound transmitted through our body. The sound transmitted through our body reaches our ears through the cochlea, which senses sound through vibrations of the muscles in the neck, mouth, and jaw bon...