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The Planet Earth Narration - Excerpt

Hello all, welcome welcome to the very first episode of the Speak Better podcast. I am Phong Ngo, your host and also your coach in this program. 
And in today episode, we shall find out the truth behind why does your voice sound so different in a recording. Right, ok, have you ever come across this moment in your life when you’d listen to the recording of your own voice and you ask yourself “ OMG! Do I really sound like this? Am I that disgusting? OMG, I’m so ashamed of myself! Yes yes, if you ever had that thought before, you’re not alone! Cause I’ve been there and… experienced that. 
And the reason for that is, because every sound we hear—birds chirping, bees buzzing, people talking, and recordings—is a wave of pressure moving through the air. Our outer ears “catch” these waves and funnel them into our head through the ear canal. They strike the ear drum, which starts vibrating, and those vibrations travel to the inner ear, where they’re translated into signals that can be sent via the auditory nerve to the brain for interpretation.
The inner ear doesn’t get stimulated only by external sound waves coming down the ear canal, though. It also picks up on vibrations happening inside the body, and it's a combination of these two things that makes up the sound you hear when you talk.
When you speak, vibrations from your vocal cords resonate in your throat and mouth, and some get transmitted and conducted by the bones in your neck and head. The inner ear responds to these just like any other vibrations, turning them into electrical signals and sending them to the brain. Whenever you speak, your inner ear is stimulated both by internal vibrations in your bones and by the sound coming out of your mouth and traveling through the air and into the ears.
This combination of vibrations coming to the inner ear by two different paths gives your voice (as you normally hear it) a unique character that other, “air only” sounds don’t have. In particular, your bones enhance deeper, lower-frequency vibrations and give your voice a fuller, bassier quality that’s lacking when you hear it on a recording.
Alright, for anyone who find the information was too scientific, here I have a simplified explanation for it. What makes the recording of your own voice sound so different. It’s because when you speak you hear your own voice in two different ways. The first is as above, vibrating sound waves hitting your ear drum. The second way is via vibrations inside your skull actually set off by your vocal chords. Those vibrations travel up through your bony skull and again set the ear drum vibrating. However as they travel through the bone they spread out and lower in pitch, giving you a false sense of bass. Then when you hear a recording of your voice, it sounds distinctly higher, which is something you never expected to hear.
Alright, alright, so there goes the answer for you. If you find yourself struggle with your voice and you don’t like how you sound in your recording, work with me more and do my training and you could improve your voice within few weeks. That’s it for the episode today. If you appreciate this podcast and you like it, give it a LIKE, SHARE it and leave me some COMMENTS, ideas for the next topic to talk on this podcast. Thank you and see you guys all next time. Goodbye!

Phongg