Creating a cute "girl" voice for a project

[Riddler]

I understand that it is near impossible to change my (male) voice into a girl's but here's the deal.

I want to have a voice designated for my car, let's call her Kim.
I want to intergrate Kim into my alarm saying "Warning! Alarm iminent" and into the GPS saying "Where do you want to go? Turn left, Turn right" and things like that. I also want to intergrate the voice into other aspects. Basically I want to have one voice for everything in my car.

The problem I am having is that when I thought of this idea, as I tried to find out if I have the ability to do this, I had a girlfriend and thought of using her voice. Now she is my ex, which made me realise that if I use someone's voice, the car will be attached to that someone... so I thought of sythesizing a voice.

Any ideas? Can I slightly alter a friend's (female) voice into a new female entity so to speak?

[kozikowski]

Any ideas? Can I slightly alter a friend's (female) voice into a new female entity so to speak?

Yes, you'd be much more likely to get a woman's already higher voice to work out. Use the "Change' tools. Effects > Change Pitch, Change Speed, etc.

You might also try out the straight effects tools like Effect > Vocoder.

Koz

[steve]

Or use a speech synthesizer - there are some quite good ones available on-line. (search for text to speech)

[Riddler]

Or use a speech synthesizer - there are some quite good ones available on-line. (search for text to speech)

The problem I am finding in this is that normally they sound recoded...

[steve]

Back to plan "A" ... find a female assistant.