When we recorded a series of training videos a few years ago, I had to leave the room every time the editor played the videos. I couldn’t listen to my own voice. In fact, your own voice always sounds different to you than it does to the listener. It took some time before I was able to listen to myself. <\/p>\n\n
Voices are our calling card. We associate it with people’s character traits, whether we trust them, whether they annoy us or whether we notice them at all. Women, for example, are assigned less competence depending on their voice. And this has nothing to do with their true skills. Women with a high pitched voice in particular are often denied this. <\/p>\n\n
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher<\/a> had a high pitched voice, only we don’t know it because at the beginning of her political career in the 1970s, she took a voice coach<\/a>. She learned to speak more slowly and with a deeper, more authoritative voice. <\/p>\n\n