Changing voice to a different voice? help!

[Supermariostar]

Well, that's just an example, I'm just trying to find out if the voice pattern can be messed with or changed at all. I mean, for any vocals changed to someone else's vocals at all (somehow, someway).

[steve]

Once you have isolated the voice, there are many ways that you can modify it with Audacity:
You can change the pitch, change the speed, filter (EQ) the voice to change the tonality, modulate tones or noise and mix a little together with the voice (accentuating vowels or breathiness), time stretch individual vowel sounds, alter the amplitude envelope, and many other things.

However, voices are incredibly complex sounds, and it is minute variations in tone, frequency content, articulation and inflection that give a particular voice a characteristic sound that identifies it with a particular person. To achieve what you are asking would require a huge amount of detailed analysis and manipulation on every single phoneme.

[Supermariostar]

Huh, yeah voices sure are complicated to change, and I completely forgot about phonemes, well at least I'm learnin some new stuff about Audacity and Voices and stuff.

Also, I was messin around with Audacity more today, and I realized that the pitch can be changed to certain frequencey (Hz thing), but in order to mess around with (just) the voice, how do I get the voice isolated by itself? (without the other instruments)

[kozikowski]

Back at the top of this thread, we talked about not being able to do that. There are tools to cancel out the voice and leave most of the other instruments, but I don't know of any way to do the reverse.

Koz

[strehlow]

The most reliable method is to get a karaoke recording that never had vocals in it in the first place. I don't know if any Weird Al is available that way though.

Any effects you try to apply to the normal recording will affect all of it, not just the vocals. Sure you can mangle it beyond recognition by pitch shifting, etc. but it will do the same to the instruments.

[Supermariostar]

Yeah, true, it's hard to affect just the vocals. Even changing the pitch/tone of voice would still affect the recording as u said which I did try. There's gotta be something out in that program that can do such a thing, wish someone could find it, that'd be awesome!

[steve]

"BANANA MILKSHAKES: Freeze banana. Break banana into pieces. Put in blender. Add 1 cup skim milk and blend. Makes 2 cups."

Now let's see you isolate the banana and take it out of the milkshake. Even with the most advanced chemical extraction and filtering, it's not going to be anything like a fresh banana.