Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y...
by gasbag on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:27PM
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The reason for the phenomenon is that some large percentage of how you hear your own voice comes from bone conduction. In addition, the higher harmonics of your voice are more directional, which is to say "aimed away from your ears", and tend to be diminished when reflected back to you by the objects around you.
The end result of this is that your own voice, when recorded and played back to you, will generally sound less bassy and more harmonically rich than you expect it to.
Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y...
by adbrebs on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:05PM
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Yes, it's actually quite interesting! It's a recurrent observation that we have inside the team with our own voices. Friends of the person usually better appreciate the quality of his/her digital voice. You can also observe these reactions to some extent on twitter: https://twitter.com/LyrebirdAi
Other interesting observation are the sentences that people generate for the first time with their digital voice...
Random question: it's said that people think their own voices sound weird when they hear recordings of themselves played back. Do you have a way to measure that phenomenon? Have you seen people complaining about the accuracy when in fact it was just that effect making people sound "weird" (to themselves)?