How your voice sounds in your head compared with how it actually sounds?

[Echobelly]

My voice sounds quite deep and 'cultured/well spoken' in my head. Unfortunately having to transcribe a discussion I recorded the other day I was reminded I actually sound really droney and nasal and like the voice of someone playing a low-ranking pedantic jobsworth in a sitcom.

I have a meeting tomorrow where I have to present some stuff so, following listening to the recording, I have written all over my notes to vary my cadence and tone - I'm sure... or I hope... I am more varied in normal conversation but I think I can get very monotone when checking notes.

In my head I sound like a sultry "Lady Mary from Downton Abbey"

Reality - somewhere between Joe Pasquale and a hyper 8 year old girl

Oh god me too! I always thought I had quite a deep voice - it sounds it in my head - but having started a new job where I have to hear my voice I realised it’s bloody horrible! Screechy, whiny sounding noise just falls out of my gob.

I've got a much stronger accent in reality than I have in my head.

Whenever I hear myself on a recording, my sister appears to have spoken over everything I said. I'm sure it's not me!

In my head I'm proper Sarf London. I always surprise myself when I hear my voice played back, which is much more girly and polite than Imagine!

I sound really high pitched in real life and I have a far thicker accent 🤣🤣 I feel sorry for everyone who has to listen to me.

I thought my.voice was"okay - a bit deep, a bit lazy at times, but nothing horrific per se....until my mum.heard me speaking in a video without seeing who was speaking and said loudly and in great disgust, "urgh!! That VOICE!"...I was like...that's me, mum. She couldn't back peddle.fast enough. My own 8 year old has also said he wishes I had a higher voice....and I answered the phone to my brother the other day and he didn't recognise me, said "I though you were some old woman". sigh.

The voice in my head sounds like a faster, posher version of my actual voice.

In recordings I remind myself of Gary Barlow. Right slooow and noooorthern!

I have a terrible vocal fry, despite my best efforts. Mixed with my obvious foreign accent it's not pleasant.

In my head I sound like Catherine Zeta Jones and on playback I'm more like worzel gummidge.

It's a whole world of disappointment!

In my head: mature, sensible, a little deep.
In reality: like a fishwife/EastEnders reject

I hate hearing my recorded voice, i definitely sound like a man 😳

In my head : sexy jazz singer / radio presenter / smoked two packs a day since I was 10.
In reality: Alternates between plain man and ultra high pitched. …

In my head i have a bland mid counties 'no real accent' sort of voice.

Reality?

Peggy Mitchell - sped up about 3 times.

''Ged aat'a my pub!''

In my head I have a deeper voice and no accent.
My real voice is actually very squeaky with a north midlands accent

In my head: deep, sexy, well spoken
In reality: the voice of a nervous teenage girl with a head cold.

@DedalusBloom

Your posts often make me laugh and i always read them in a low plumby accent!

Does everyone think they sound lower in ther heads? Turns out I actually sound like Minnie Mouse, and my accent is much stronger.

My voice sounds high in my head. In reality it is VERY droney and low pitched. Not good.

@EBearhug

Whenever I hear myself on a recording, my sister appears to have spoken over everything I said. I'm sure it's not me!

My sister does the same to me

In my head: Mariella Frostrup

Reality: First year Hermione Granger

In my head, normal if a bit deep. Reality, a sort of posh drawl.

My voice sounds firm and deep in my head. In reality it is actually quite gentle and soft, like one of those ineffectual women from 50s melodramas. Still fairly deep, for a woman.

In my head - Deep, strong, authoritative

In reality according to my prerecorded answerphone message - nasal, childlike and whiny