A man on TikTok just showed millions of people his real voice for the first time in decades. Timothy Daigle is in his 40s now, and he says he has been faking his voice since he was a teenager. His video from August 31, 2025, has gotten almost 5 million views.
Daigle started talking in a higher, tight voice when he was young and kept doing it for more than 30 years. He did this because people kept telling him he was mumbling when he went through puberty. In his TikTok video, he let his throat relax and showed everyone what he actually sounds like. His real voice is way deeper and sounds much more relaxed.
According to Daily Dot, People could not believe how different the two voices were. One person said, “Sir, I almost choked on my lunch when that silk came out.” A lot of viewers said they noticed his whole vibe changed when he used his real voice. He seemed less stressed and more comfortable.
The Reason Behind The Change Is Actually Pretty Sad
Daigle talked about why he started changing his voice in the first place. He has been using his fake voice with everyone in his life since he was about 14 or 15. That includes his kids, his partners, and his family. He started doing it because his mom would not stop telling him he was mumbling during his teenage years.
“Mumbling, mumbling,” Daigle said, remembering what she told him. “That word ‘mumbling’ came out of her mouth at me in every conversation for years when I hit about 11, 12, 13 years old. So I would speak up. I would squeeze my voice.” That squeezed voice just became normal for him after a while.
Around a year ago, Daigle decided to try something he had never done as an adult. He let his throat, chest, and face relax and just talked without forcing anything. What came out was his actual voice, which sounds totally different. He said it feels weird to use his real voice now because the fake one has become such a habit. “Such a reflex, that doing this right now almost feels like faking it,” he explained.
Tons of people who saw the video said they do the same thing. A lot of them said they changed how they talk to make other people feel better or to fit in. Some people connected it to bad experiences they had or pressure they felt because of their gender or background.
One person wrote, “First voice sounds like anxiety.” Someone else thought he should use his deep voice for work and said, “And thus began your career narrating audiobooks.” Another person made a joke about watching the video, saying, “how bro felt after changing the voice.” Just like a woman who was shocked by how a restaurant handled her complaint, Daigle’s story shows how things that surprise us can blow up online.
A voice teacher saw the video and said this happens to almost everyone. The teacher said that most people do not really have a natural voice. Instead, their voice is just shaped by things that happened to them over the years.
The teacher thinks about 99 percent of people talk in a way that comes from their past experiences and how people reacted to them. These moments where we learn something new about ourselves, similar to small details we miss that actually matter a lot, can really change how we see things.
Published: Oct 29, 2025 05:45 pm