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Hi all,
I am not a transvestite, but for some reason my voice sounds like one when I try doing a recording with any type of software. i am not sure why, but I would like to remove it from my recording. I have spent days trying to get rid of it and searched on google, within this forum, and youtube, but all of my search results come back stating to try changing the pitch by using the pitch filter, which all I get is a horrible cartoonish demon effect or I sound like a robot. I cannot have these silly sounds because I will be doing professionall video tutorials, using my voice and CamStudio, a screen capture recorder. Is this even possible with Audacity?

PS. I almost forgot, I made a recording sample for you all just to give you an idea of what I mean

<<<I cannot have these silly sounds because I will be doing professionall video tutorials, using my voice and CamStudio, a screen capture recorder.>>>

Or maybe you won't. Microphones and capture systems -- even the cheap ones -- aren't in the habit of making someone's voice much different from what it really is. You wouldn't be the first person shocked at how they appear to everyone else. I know voice talents who go through great effort at home with microphones and headsets to avoid sounding like whatever they consider undesirable.

The flip side of that is trying to fix it in post production software which is extraordinarily hard to do on many levels. First is efficiency. Other people will narrate a video capture, save the work and go home. You will be applying post production filters and corrections to the recorded work and getting a fresh cup of coffee.

You won't be doing any filtering with Audacity. We routinely encounter posters wanting to sound like something else. There are money-based software packages that can change your voice into a target character. I would have to go look it up again. There are also tools that can make your voice sound like a guitar or flute, but I assume you want to sound human.

Is it too late to change your career path?

Koz

AUP files aren't sound files. Export a WAV or an MP3 file for us to hear.

Koz

No luck so far. I found a very long thread on how to make a Demon Voice.

If you're really complaining about the rhythm, meter, and emphasis of your voice, no software package is going to correct that, money or not. As we are fond of pointing out, Lauren Bacall's voice was lower than Humphrey Bogart.

Koz

kozikowski wrote:
We routinely encounter posters wanting to sound like something else....

Is it too late to change your career path?

Koz

well that kind of sucks. Changing career paths would be difficult since I have a back injury, which limits me to working in the food industry which I use to do. Furthermore, I am getting pretty old to getting hired as a graphic designer. I tried it and most employers like hiring young adults who just graduated college. I did go back to college majoring in Computer Graphic Design, but I graduated back in 2005. Lastly, I tried looking at freelancing restaurant menus, but most restaurants already have a Graphic Layout Designer producing their menus, and desktop publishing is pretty much dead. Most desktop publishing companies I spoke with, are actually begging for work. The only thing left I can think of, is freelancing online graphic design tutorials. I am pretty good with 3d modeling and animation, and I have the know how. However,my voice. Ahgh!! It's horrible. In my opinion, I sound like a teenager hitting puberty with a bit of manish/femalish voice, and I do not think anyone would like to buy my lessons for that reason. You know, that, "Hey there big fellow, how about coming over for a good time." but actually a male speaking like that.

kozikowski wrote:No luck so far. I found a very long thread on how to make a Demon Voice.

If you're really complaining about the rhythm, meter, and emphasis of your voice, no software package is going to correct that, money or not. As we are fond of pointing out, Lauren Bacall's voice was lower than Humphrey Bogart.

Koz

well I am not too sure if it is a rhythm, meter, and emphasis problem. All I am looking for something the opposite of the chicpmunks movie. meaning instead of a high pitch, I wanted to have a lower pitch without causing a daemon effect.

kozikowski wrote:AUP files aren't sound files. Export a WAV or an MP3 file for us to hear.

Koz

Thanks, here is an update of the correct file format

bntheman wrote:...

... Changing career paths would be difficult since I have a back injury, which limits me to working in the food industry [????????]..... ... The only thing left I can think of, is freelancing online graphic design tutorials.

I am pretty good with 3d modeling and animation, and I have the know how. However,my voice. Ahgh!! It's horrible. ....

keep thinking
there are other things your skills can be used for if you can do 3d modeling and animation. kid next door does that for a govt job.

consider hiring someone else to do the voice
if you really think you can sell those tutorials

if you can do live classes yourself in a classroom with hands on then they wont care about your voice

bntheman wrote:Hi all,
I am not a transvestite, but for some reason my voice sounds like one when I try doing a recording with any type of software. ...

everybody's voice sounds terrible to them the first time they record it

try drinking some milk before you talk
or eat some icecream
then talk louder

see if you like that better

else try spraying that oily stuff like an opera tenor
and talk softer with the mike almost in your mouth

one of those could work

Try changing the pitch by -3%, and Bassboot 200Hz by 3db, (the result won't be Barry White, but will be more macho).

"Change Pitch" and "Bassboost" are both in Audacity's "Effects" menu.


Trebor - those pitch & bassboot changes worked a treat on the resonance.

Goodbye Charles Hawtrey.......hello Brian Blessed!!!!!!!

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 280#p86280

If you're not in the UK you won't know who Charles Hawtrey and Brian Blessed are: the former had an effeminate voice, the latter could be employed as a foghorn.