The Sound of My Voice
Like most people I find the sound of my recorded voice kind of unnerving. It never sounds like I think it does.
It turns out there is a very good reason for this. When we speak we hear our own voice with our skull acting as a resonance chamber. When we hear our own recorded voice we lack that extra resonance, and our voices sound higher, tinnier.
I've experienced this when listening to my voice on voicemail, or recordings made by friends. But I've never heard my own voice on the radio.
Until now.
On Thursday of this week I called the radio program Talk of the Nation, on NPR. I'm not really much of a talk radio listener, and I've never called a radio show before. but I was fired up by the topic: Modern Girls and the Modesty Movement. I was a little nervous at first but I got more comfortable quickly and just tried not to think about the fact that I was on a national radio show.
If you would like to hear what I had to say, click here. My call to the show starts about 17' 20".
What do you think: did I state my point of view clearly and coherently, or did I make an ass of myself?
It turns out there is a very good reason for this. When we speak we hear our own voice with our skull acting as a resonance chamber. When we hear our own recorded voice we lack that extra resonance, and our voices sound higher, tinnier.
I've experienced this when listening to my voice on voicemail, or recordings made by friends. But I've never heard my own voice on the radio.
Until now.
On Thursday of this week I called the radio program Talk of the Nation, on NPR. I'm not really much of a talk radio listener, and I've never called a radio show before. but I was fired up by the topic: Modern Girls and the Modesty Movement. I was a little nervous at first but I got more comfortable quickly and just tried not to think about the fact that I was on a national radio show.
If you would like to hear what I had to say, click here. My call to the show starts about 17' 20".
What do you think: did I state my point of view clearly and coherently, or did I make an ass of myself?
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