How to make a persons voice unrecognizable

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How to make a persons voice unrecognizable

Post by ngr » Sat Nov 24, 2012 5:10 am

It it possible to scramble/distort a persons voice, so he becomes unrecognizable?

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Re: How to make a persons voice unrecognizable

Post by kozikowski » Sat Nov 24, 2012 7:22 am

That's not a yes/no switch. Somebody can transcribe the speech into printed words and someone else will still recognize favorite words that the speaker uses. Even with the pitch shifters, the meter and rhythm of the speaker goes through. Even if it doesn't sound like Joe Smith, it sounds like me mum trying to imitate Joe Smith. I'm going with no.

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Re: How to make a persons voice unrecognizable

Post by steve » Sat Nov 24, 2012 5:16 pm

ngr wrote:It it possible to scramble/distort a persons voice, so he becomes unrecognizable?
I presume that you mean "and still intelligible".
Try the Vocoder effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/vocoder.html
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