Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Why does your voice sound different to you on a recording?

  1. When you hear yourself speak regularly, the sound waves emanate through the tissue, bone, and other material, which changes its sound.

  2. When you hear yourself speak regularly, the sound waves bounce off who you are talking to, which changes its sound.

  3. The speakers of the cassette recorder distort the sound of your recorded voice.

  4. I don't know
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Explanation

When you speak, you hear your voice through two pathways: air conduction (sound waves through air) and bone conduction (vibrations through skull bones). Bone conduction enhances lower frequencies, making your voice sound fuller to yourself. A recording only captures the air-conducted sound, which lacks this bass boost and thus sounds thinner and higher-pitched.

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