How come my voice sounds different when I hear it on a audio recorder?

Question

For example : When I talk I hear my voice but when I hear it on a audio device it sound different. But other people say my voice sounds the same? What is that?

Answer 1

When you hear, there are two components to it. They are called Air conduction and Bone conduction. Air conduction is when the sound waves travel right into your ear canal and vibrate the stapes (the little stirrup bone of the middle ear) and that pushes the fluid in your inner ear, which stimulates tiny hair in the inner ear which sends signals to the auditory nerve. And bone conduction is when the sound travels as a vibration from your skull bones right into the inner ear and stimulates the auditory nerves. And you normally hear sounds as a comination of both. But when you're hearing your voice, since it's being produced in your larynx, the bone conduction component is much louder than the air conduction component giving rise to the differential sound. There are hearing tests used by doctors to evaluate your hearing called Rinne's test and Weber's test based on these principles.

Answer 2

because you are also hearing your voice echo through your bones, muscles and all that other stuff between your vocal cords and ears.

Answer 3

  because your voice always sounds differant to you than it does to other people.  i have an accent when i speak, but i dont hear it inside my head and it always weirds me out when i hear my voice recorded.  it sounds that much differant inside my head, but my friends all assure me it sounds the same