Do you like your voice?

I gotta be honest... I think a lot of y'all who hate your voices really need to stop, listen to yourself a BUNCH, and start to listen both critically and appreciatively, because in the end your voice is a major factor in your channel. I'd honestly argue that how you sound might matter more than how you look. People might not always be watching the video, but I've never known anyone to watch a video while on mute (outside of a few REALLY specific circumstances).

The reason that matters is if you start getting to know your voice, the sound of it, the little subtleties and nuances, it helps you improve. If you listen to yourself and go "EUGH IT'S TERRIBLE I CAN'T WAIT TO FINISH EDITING" then... it'll always sound terrible to you and there's a good chance you aren't doing a great job of sounding good to the viewers. But if you stop and go "all right, I need to lift my voice a bit here, sound less flat when I do this, watch how I pronounce these words..." then you're on the road to improving, making yourself more fun for your VIEWERS to listen to.

Remember your product is YOU. Sure you can do all the editing and effects in the world, but without working on your camera presence (or vocal performance) it's all a fool's errand. Don't look at yourself and go "man I wish I was prettier" or listen to yourself and go "man I wish I sounded better," that's self-defeating and doesn't help you get better. Go "I need to show more emotion" or "I need to vary my tone," that's something you can do and something that will lead to more audience engagement.
 
I could go into the science of why your voice sounds different to you than it does on camera, but that could be boring or some :D But everyone hears their own voice differently through a camera, and most probably don't like it because it isn't normal to them :) I remember playing my first ever upload (an old channel) and thinking I sounded awful but my sister reassured that I do actually sound like that haha :D
 
I'm pretty neutral on how my voice sounds, what I keep having to work on is pronunciation. Sometimes my "R" sound like a "W", also there are times I speak too fast and the words get lost. Just gotta keep it in check when recording.
 
When I started out YouTube and such I didn't like the sound of my own voice but over time I've gotten use to it and don't mind it now but it just sounds like a monolog for me but I'm talking to everyone who watches my videos but at times I don't like my voice (mainly when I'm sick).
 
Also, this is another thing for you LP'ers: if possible, monitor your voice as you record. When you can hear yourself AS you record, you're not blindsided by your voice and you're not going to go "oh my god I didn't realize that's how I sounded!!"
 
I used to work in a call centre, and every now and then us phone reps would receive a little video in our email called "click to coach" and we got to take 5-10 minutes off of the phone to watch and listen to a call that was recorded and see the desktop and all of the stuff we were doing. We weren't watching videos of our co-workers, we watched videos OF OURSELVES. It's common enough for people to hate hearing their own voice, but listening to an awkward sales call while reading notes from your boss about how bad you're doing? Uh, yeah. I got my anxiety diagnosis while working at that job because I couldn't handle the whole thing anymore.
 
Oh gosh, I am so critical of my speaking voice, and it's entirely because I think male voices sound more professional? Which is so bad of me :( I just keep thinking if my voice was deeper it'd sound better, but -- lol that's likely not going to happen in a 23 year old girl
 
I don't hate my voice, neither do I 100% like it. My s-sounds are always really long so I need to edit those out a bit.
 
Honestly, no. Not really, with zero audio editing, to me, my voice sounds really annoying. Almost nasally? I guess? I'unno.

But, I've had multiple people tell me that they love my voice, and I've even heard that my voice is hot. :hehecute: A bit ironic that I hate my voice, but I want to be a voice actor. Go figure. lol
 
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