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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is it that our voices seem normal in our heads but when we hear it from another perspective it sounds so gross and cringe-y?

For example hearing yourself on a video or a voice recording.
gpt
When other people hear your voice, the sound gets transmitted to them through the air.

But when you hear your own voice, much of the sound gets transmitted to your ear by bone (your jaw and skull) rather than through the air. Because bone transmits sound differently to air, the way you hear your voice is different to how everyone else hears it.

When you hear a recording of your voice, you are hearing the same as everyone else hears. You don't like it, though, because it's unfamiliar, it's not the way you think you sound.