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Creating a cute "girl" voice for a project

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:06 am
by 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?

Re: Creating a cute "girl" voice for a project

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:18 pm
by 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

Re: Creating a cute "girl" voice for a project

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:19 pm
by steve
Or use a speech synthesizer - there are some quite good ones available on-line. (search for text to speech)

Re: Creating a cute "girl" voice for a project

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:11 pm
by Riddler
steve wrote: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...

Re: Creating a cute "girl" voice for a project

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:42 am
by steve
Back to plan "A" ... find a female assistant.