How We Hear
This is the name for sound that travels through the air into your ears.
Air Conduction
Many people feel this when they hear their recorded voice
Uncomfortable
One reason your recorded voice sounds different is because recordings mainly use this kind of sound travel.
Air conduction
The article suggests the best way to get used to your recorded voice is to do this more often.
Listen to recordings of yourself
The article begins by saying the feeling of disliking your recorded voice is almost ___
Universal (or common)
These tiny hard tissue forms in your ear vibrate when sound reaches them. They are...
Ear Bones
On a recording, your voice often sounds this compared to how you think it sounds
Higher‑pitched or thinner
The voice you hear while talking includes vibrations from your vocal cords and these inside your head.
Bones (or sinuses)
Listening to yourself can help you make these to sound better to others
Changes (or improvements) to your voice
Hearing your voice inside your head includes sound going through your ___
Sinuses
The spiral-shaped part of the inner ear that sends sound signals to the brain is called the ___
Cochlea
People usually hear their own voice as deeper because of vibrations in their ___.
Head (or bones and sinuses)
The article compares hearing your recorded voice to suddenly looking in one of these after not using it for months.
A mirror
Repeatedly hearing recordings helps reduce this first reaction
Shock (or surprise)
The 10‑year‑old study mentioned came from this website name in the article.
Science Daily
When you speak, you hear your voice partly through the air and partly through these inside your head.
Internal vibrations
The article says hearing your recorded voice can mess with this part of how you see yourself.
Self‑identity
The expert Martin Birchall said hearing your voice inside your head is like hearing sound through a ___.
Cave (or cave complex)
Practicing recordings can help you change your pitch, tone, and this — how loud or clear you sound.
Projection
Which expert said the recorded voice is how your voice actually sounds: Martin Birchall or Dr. Yale Cohen?
Dr. Yale Cohen
The internal vibrations travel through your sinuses and these to change how your voice sounds to you.
Bones
People prefer recordings of their voice when they don’t know this about the speaker
Who is speaking
Dr. Yale Cohen said the voice on a recording is actually how your voice ___
Sounds
Getting used to your voice helps you feel more comfortable and lets you do this on purpose
Change how you speak
Name the two main ways sound reaches your ears that explain the difference in how you hear your voice.
Air conduction and internal (bone/tissue) conduction