Bone-conduction tech reveals the true nature of your voice perception.

New research published in Royal Society Open Science shows that bone conduction helps distinguish between your own voice and the voice of others. The study found that hearing our own voice feels unnatural to us because of the lack of bone conduction, which alters the acoustic properties of our voice. Bone-conduction headphones were used to overcome this issue, and the study found that participants were better at telling their own voice apart from someone else’s voice when they heard the sounds through their bones instead of through the air. The findings have clinical relevance for conditions such as schizophrenia.