How to Hear Your Real Voice

Video Transcript

"JAMES MENY: So let's just say, since most people are going to not sing correctly, that it's not working for you. How do you get this to stop--squeezing? The secret is that where you hear voice in your head is different than the way you walked into the room with. So what I mean by that is, if you ever hear yourself on an answering machine, you sound different than the way you think you sound. And that is because our ears are meant to hear sound from the outside of our bodies, not from the inside. The only sound that we hear from the inside is our own voice, but it's distorted through flesh, muscle, bone tissue and stuff before it actually gets to our ears. So we're not getting a true idea of what our voice really sounds like until you listen to yourself on the answering machine or a recording."