one of the occasionally distressing things about hearing loss (especially with tinnitus) is that pareidolia can really run away with any background sounds whatsoever.
almost everything sounds like voices talking in the other room to me, and I live alone, so it always catches me off-guard.
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@est I'm sorry you find the phenomenon distressing; however, I'm fascinated: do the voices have a certain pitch or do they span the frequency range? also, for the sounds you recognize as caused by tinnitus rather than as voices, are they in the same or a different range? is the perception of voices transient or does it persist as long as you are hearing the sound?
@est thanks for sharing. I hope symptoms lessen for you.
@2ck all of this is highly variable.
tinnitus kinda changes over time and by situation. the sounds of voices do not necessarily match the tinnitus. it's more like there's enough noise that it's hard to interpret other actual background noises.