stretching out a 1-second word for 10 seconds?

[nelsonkane]

Windows 10, 1903

If I record a woman speaking one word and put it on Audacity, how can I make that in to a 10-second duplicate, and keep the same pitch, without it sounding like the same word spoken 10 times in a row?

[jh90s]

Not really possible, sadly… You’ll have to get that word recorded 10 times. Sadly you can’t alter a voice and it’s intonations without changing something such as the formant or pitch or just re-recording it so you get the desired result!

[steve]

If you want this as an “effect”, rather than someone actually talking very slowly, try these three effects (they each produce a different kind of effect):
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_tempo.html (try both the HQ and non-HQ settings)
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_speed.html (literally “slows down” the selected audio)
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/paulstretch.html (really cool effect, but not at all “natural” sounding)

[Trebor]

Go Granular … https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/is-there-a-modulating-tempo-change-out-there/51360/10

[nelsonkane]

If you want this as an “effect”, rather than someone actually talking very slowly, try these three effects (they each produce a different kind of effect):
Change Tempo - Audacity Manual (try both the HQ and non-HQ settings)
Change Speed and Pitch - Audacity Manual (literally “slows down” the selected audio)
Paulstretch - Audacity Manual (really cool effect, but not at all “natural” sounding)

Thanks, I’ll give it a try!