For work I'm interviewing people across the company, and because the interviews are 1:1 I've been recording them. I just now replayed the first of them in order to transcribe it – and OMG, right?
Approximately every third word I say is either "like" or "you know." And my voice is higher-pitched than I though. Dudes: I sound like I'm twelve.
I never knew that.
I hope that by the time the 10th of these is transcribed, I'll be inured to the sound of my own voice.
HA!
4 comments:
It's an awful shock, true. Seeing yourself on TV is even worse. I was pushing my glasses up my nose every second minute. Cringe!
I bet you sound just fine to other people, though.
Silly Jen. You sound and speak just fine. :)
Signed,
Someone who listens to you on the phone all the time (Kenny)
i hate listening to myself!
I know what you mean. I mean, not about *your* voice. (I've never heard your voice.) But I do remember being so annoyed by the sound of my own voice. I did get used to it, though.
You know what's really tough? Working on speech disfluencies, and becoming hyper-aware of them in your own speech. Because there's nothing like hyper-awareness of one's own speech to bring out the...um.. uh...disfluencies.
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