Do deaf people hear their inner voice?
If someone has never heard language in any form, they cannot be thinking in it. While it has been reported that some such deaf people imagine sounds in their dreams, those sounds have no linguistic content... they just 'know' what others are saying. Instead, it has been demonstrated that most deaf-from-birth people actually think in sign language, strange as it may seem (link 1). Not only do some of them report doing so, MRIs confirm that they are using the same brain areas that a hearing person would (they have been assigned new purposes in the case of a deaf person). And perhaps most interesting of all, a deaf person asked to memorize a list is stymied when they are forced to hold a block in each of their hands in the same way that a hearing person is when they are forced to repeat a nonsense rhyme. It's worth mentioning, too, that there are many people who are deaf who were not deaf from birth or who retain some measure of their hearing. For these people, it is often the case that they still use sounds because so much of the rest of the world does so as well. Sounds are, after all, how most folk are taught to read, and even deaf folk can't escape some of those correlations. So it doesn't take a lot of exposure to sound to weight the hearer in that direction. But yes, pretty much all deaf people have an inner voice like our own. If they've never had the opportunity to associate sound with that voice, it takes a different form. Given the many people who think in various foreign languages and can even consciously switch between one inner voice and another, this shouldn't really seem too strange.
I have a very soft voice, many people can't hear me clearly. How do I train my voice to be loud enough for others to hear clearly?
This may not really require exercises specifically for singing, but it may be much more simple.If you want to be able to speak louder, then you have to make a habit of speaking louder. Your voice will adjust naturally as your body realizes that the vocal chords are under more stress.Of course, like with any exercise meant to strengthen muscles, your intensity (volume) should increase over time, and you should continue pushing your voice louder and louder until you are satisfied with the results. This probably can be done in a week or two, considering that you are trying to speak at a normal level, not yelling into a gymnasium with loaded bleachers.However, singing exercises can help you gain control over your voice, so that you aren’t always shouting your words.Another factor is your pronunciation. You have to speak clearly for others to clearly understand you; being loud and mumbly helps nobody.
How can I allow other people hear how my voice sounds like to me?
Yes, this can be done.What you need is a good mic, and a good visual feedback EQ plugin for any DAW software.Start with recording your voice, and then alter the EQ settings until the voice sounds like it does in your head. It’ll take an hour or two, but it’s really fun.You will probably need to boost the low frequencies a bit. Find the most prominent peak in the bottom register and give it a bump of 2–4dB.Apart from that, it’s just trial and error. Compare the recording with your own voice from time to time while working, and you’ll hear what you need to do.
Why would people mock my voice?
Speak louder, and confidently. Even if you know your voice sounds like that, don't let the other person find out your weakness. Instead speak proudly.
Why don't people like the sound of their own recorded voice?
To expand on Jae Won Joh's great answer there has been some very interesting research done in Schizophrenia which relates to the brains processing of your own voice. Experiments have been done that show that Schizophrenia patients cannot differentiate their own voice while talking from recordings of their voice, unlike healthy humans.It is thought that disruption of NMDA receptors in the thalamus cause changes in the functioning of the thalamic reticular nucleus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha...) which regulates information flow in the thalamus and affects the signals being output from the thalamus. The newly disturbed output from the thalamus stops the prefrontal cortex (PFC) from being able to communicate to your auditory system while you are speaking. Normally, when the PFC is properly functioning, your brain is able to recognize when you are speaking and correct your perception to account for that, this is not the case in schizophrenic patients.A healthy person will think they sound different when they hear a recording of their voice because their brain is not able to filter it (as Jae described). For a schizophrenic person they are no longer able to make that distinction (because of the disruption in the thalamus), i.e. everything sounds like the voice recorded on the answering machine. This will often cause them to think they are hearing people talking to them when there is nobody around and can lead to paranoia, which is a common symptom of Schizophrenia. [1][1] I learned most of this from a talk by Dr. John E Lisman that I attended at the National Institutes of Health. http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/lism...
Do people who use hearing aids hear the same way a hearing person would?
The situation is complicated and depends on the severity of the hearing loss and the quality of the hearing aids.A person with moderate hearing loss may find that hearing aids allow them to participate in conversations and other activities just like anyone else. They really are helpful for many people.But people with severe hearing loss won’t get as much benefit and may find wearing hearing aids painfully loud.Some people lose the ability to make out words more than they lose the ability to hear sounds (I am in that group). Hearing aids are of only limited help with these people because making things louder doesn’t much help them tell the difference between similar sounding words.There are several situations where hearing aids don’t work well. In noisy environments, like restaurants, they amplify all the background sounds. They also don’t work so well with very soft sounds, as when people whisper.Hearing aids also distort sounds. For most deaf people, hearing aids selectively amplify high pitch sounds; it can take a while to get used to that effect. Since it takes a fraction of a second for the hearing aid to amplify sound, a user may hear a distortion resulting from the original sound coming through, followed, almost immediately, by the louder version. Directional hearing aids, that amplify sounds coming from a specific direction, also distort sound. Sometimes these effects nullify any advantage provided by hearing aids.Hearing aid technology is getting better all the time. Some of the better ones have a limited ability to filter out background noises. But they cannot always overcome the limitations in a person’s hearing ability.
Hearing Voices Vs Thinking?
when you hear voices its like someones talking in your ear when you think you dont actually hear anything
Why do people complain about my bad hearing but yet they can’t hear me as well even when I am straining my voice to speak louder?
When you speak, you hear it though your ears, as well as in your head. You get bone resonance. They don’t. So your voice sounds way louder to you than to others. Practice enunciating clearly, speaking slowly and with good diction and lots of inflection. Visualize the voice coming from your navel.