TJ Walker explains why people hate hearing their own voice: bone conduction makes it sound different to you than to everyone else. Bad voices are rare. Focus on what you say, not how you sound, and practice speaking on video until your natural voice feels normal.
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What do you do if you don't like your voice? How do you improve your voice? What if you want to sound deeper and more professional, more authoritative, how do you have a lower voice? Oh, don't do that. Here's the thing. Everybody hates their sound of their own voice because we're used to hearing our voice distorted through the bones on our skull all day long. So when we hear our voice through a speaker, it's much less distorted than normal. It's not our self image, our voice. So trust me, your voice is likely fine. It's extraordinarily rare that anyone truly has a voice that's awful. What's far more important is what do you use your voice to say? Say something interesting. A lot of people have perfectly fine voices. They never say anything interesting. My advice, practice on video. Really listen to your voice and to your message hundreds of times before you ever start thinking about how to improve your voice or a voice coach or an accent coach or any of that stuff. You've got to get used to really listening to your voice. Chances are your voice is perfectly fine. It's your message that probably needs more work.