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streamofthesky posted...

But...my recorded voice sounds lower/deeper than what I hear internally....

That's not how frequencies work. We as humans have trouble hearing frequencies that are too low or too high. The rich low frequencies I mentioned being delivered by bone conduction can't normally be heard. They can only be "felt". This is kind of like how most deaf people can still "hear" low frequency sounds. They reverberate in your body. You don't need ears to "hear" those sounds because our ears are incapable of hearing them. When you talk, your voice reverberates in your body and so you can "hear" those low frequencies. When you listen to a record of your voice, you can't hear those low frequencies.

Most deaf people can still hear sounds delivered by bone conduction. These people can actually hear themselves talk, but what they hear is very limited. They don't hear via air conduction, so what they hear is the difference between what you hear when you talk and what you hear when you listen to a record of your voice. Sound also travels in solids, and that's what bone conduction is all about.

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I'm French speaking.
30/Male/Quebec