| Unless you live along the Boston-Washington corridor, | | | | everyone else hears you because when you speak, |
| chances are good that you if you have a problem with | | | | the sound goes away from your body. In that sense, |
| volume it is probably that you speak with too little of it. | | | | when you are talking, you are hearing yourself by |
| We, in the Northeast region of America, tend to use | | | | means of your inner ear. If you want to know exactly |
| too much of it – we drive fast, we talk fast, and we | | | | how you sound, go stand in a corner with your mouth |
| are loud. | | | | about 6 inches away from where the wall meet and |
| Volume is tricky because your inner ear often | | | | say something you know from memory. Because your |
| doesn’t tell you the truth when it comes to how | | | | voice will bounce off the wall and travel back past |
| loudly or how softly you are speaking. [Of course, your | | | | your outer ear, you will then hear yourself exactly the |
| inner ear also lies about the quality of your voice as | | | | way everyone else does. |
| well. This is the reason so many people are | | | | Since your inner ear is unable to give you a true |
| uncomfortable when they hear themselves on their | | | | account of how you sound, it is often unable to tell you |
| voicemail. They don’t recognize the sound, they | | | | when you are speaking too softly. A good example of |
| don’t like the sound, and they are probably | | | | this are individuals who are soft-spoken. When they try |
| embarrassed by what they are hearing.] | | | | to increase their volume, their inner ear will tell them |
| If you are trying to call someone in another room and | | | | that they are shouting when in fact they are not. They |
| you do not increase your level of volume from that | | | | are speaking at a volume level with which their inner |
| which you would normally use at the dinner table, for | | | | ear is uncomfortable. |
| example, do you honestly think the other person will | | | | If you have spent your entire life speaking at a soft |
| hear you? | | | | volume level, your inner ear will shudder when you |
| Your inner ear is judging your voice based on sound | | | | increase your volume. This is a given. In order to rectify |
| that vibrates in the solid and liquid of the brain. This is | | | | that problem, you need to learn what is a proper |
| distorted sound which is why you do not recognize | | | | volume level if you expect people to not only hear you |
| your voice on recording equipment. Your outer ear is | | | | but listen to you as well. |
| unfortunately not able to hear your voice the way | | | | |