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Bone conduction

Bone conduction is the conduction of sound to the inner ear through the bones of the skull. Bone conduction transmission can be used with individuals with normal or impaired hearing.

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This filtering out of bone-conducted sound also means that we are not deafened by the sound of our voice, for we do not hear it through bone conduction chiefly, but through the sound waves carried by the air from mouth to ear.

Nevertheless, bone conduction is a minor factor and adds a resonance and body to our voice we do not hear in others.

I thought briefly of cupping my hands and yelling bone conduction!

There's an audible hiss of pink noise as his glasses whisper in his ears, bone conduction providing a serial highway to his wetware.