Anyone have this problem?

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So as some of you might know I got a youtube account. However, for some reason, I feel nervous to make a video of me talking since there are always people living in my house and I'm afraid it would sound weird for me to suddenly talk loudly into my laptop.

I don't think it's that weird to talk into your computer. If people think it's weird, that's their problem. Just do it!

I don't hear other people in the house talk to themselves that much so it just feels weird. Maybe I do have a psychological problem.

All I do is talk rather softly, my microphone still picks it up. Or just tell everyone what you are doing, why not?

If you talk loudly enough they'll realize you're making a video.

Uh not really. Example my 80 year old grandmother would wonder WTF I was doing. Even my42 year old mother would mess that up unless it directly told her. As in they would say 'watt are you doing'. Or wonder and I'd tell them.

Also other ways there would be a lack of Information given on this subject.

Re the op that is understandable hence do it in a quiet oart of the house away from other people or do it when no one else is there. That is what I would do.....

Edit: damn iPad typos....

I've always hated speaking on camera, or to Drive Thrus. I hate the sound of my voice but I'm not really sure about why I don't like talking to Drive Thrus.

I have wanted to do it before but now that my parents know my youtube channel, I don't want them to see what videos I make. I don't know if they lurk there from time to time. Plus I don't have a webcam to talk into nor a microphone. We have a webcam but it doesn't work. I could use my camera and hold it up to front of my face and talk but that be awkward.

I could make a separate channel or make my videos unlisted.

I think that you should go ahead and do it.

yesyesyes!! !
I know exactly that feeling, even when people leave the house, I still can't do it, it just breaks the silence! good luck

I can't talk into a video camera either. I'd feel weird and forget what I was going to say the instant I'd open my mouth. My brain isn't wired for talking anyways.

I had to talk into my computer to make a podcast recently for uni, and I just told my family what I was doing, so they'd know if they heard me talking to apparently noone.

I don't like making spoken-word recordings of myself either. I've got enough privacy to do that without being overheard, but speaking into a recording machine makes me mumble a lot worse than speaking "live" to a real person. I'd have to write a script and do several takes, evaluating each one and trying again until I was happy with the intonation etc. And if it was a video, I'd want to control the lighting etc. to make myself look as attractive (to my eyes) as possible. It would be a lot of work, but probably great fun, and the result would probably be pretty good. Luckily I don't have anything to say that I think is worth uploading as a sound/video file.