Have you ever recorded yourself or had video taken of you?

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I found some old photos of me at school and in every single one I'm looking somewhere completely different to where the camera is. It looks strange since everyone else was looking directly at the camera.

In videos my voice sounds pretty bad in my opinion. Again I usually aren't paying attention to the camera.

In speech therapy in school they did voice recordings, and that made it harder as i hate my voice.

I'm glad they never did that to me in school and if they tried and I knew I would have refused to talk.

When I hear my own voice recorded it sounds awful and I don't recognize it as me.

My brother took a video with both of us in it about 3 weeks ago to put on his youtube channel and afterwards we were cracking up laughing about how I act. I also don't like hearing my voice recording because my voice is just weird. I have a speech impediment, but there's something else about my voice that annoys me. I'm getting more use to it though. I've also worked on my voice and stuff so it doesn't annoy me as much. My friends say it's not that bad, but when I can get them to actually tell me the truth, they say I kind of sound like a little kid. In videos and pictures I look funny too. Either my eyes, or body posture, or something.

I have actually been trying this for myself. Taking video's in which I talk about whatever, or read something I wrote, to find out how my voice sounds. Not only just how it sounds, but finding out when I talk to fast, which words I tend to put together, where I use tone inflation or deflation.

It's a personal training. I decided that being able to speak well and sound convincing has a lot of benefits. Since I know I talk to fast, in too high of a voice and don't break the words apart enough, it can't hurt to practise it.

This subject has gotten even weirder for me lately. I have had to use the intercom at work 3-4 times, and I swear that sounds like some teenage kid. It doesn't sound like me at all, except for the slightly "slow" ( not sure how to describe this) edge. Maybe soft-toned. My voice always sounds fairly strong & deep to me & that is how my friends have described it too..
That cannot be me!
And I am *STILL* cringing at the sound also!

Sincerely,
Matthew

I can sum up me on video in one word:

Awkward.

I've done some podcasts, and I'm always amazed at how...incoherent I sound sometimes. Like, the other participants can get their thoughts out reasonably easily. Me? I stutter, I pause a lot, I have to stop and re-phrase what I'm trying to say. And I can't stand the sound of my own voice.

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I also have a lisp, so it makes it even more awkward.

We had to record ourselves reading and analyzing a poet for my AP English class. My friend filmed me. I talked quiet but my voice was terribly annoying. I made weird facial expressions and talk with my hands constantly. The class kept talking about how cute I am which I found insulting for some reason.