genao87 (7/17/2017)
Lamias (7/8/2017)
genao87
Hey, thanks for the reply and the link.
Isn't polly a text-to-speech software though? How do you convey emotion and life in your voice if it's a text-to-speech?
I am worried that I will achieve a good human voice, but lose all the emotion that a normal person can convey with his voice.
Yeah Polly can convey emotions with the right script coding. Or you can just use existing ones and modify those.. It is in its infancy right now but it has already caught up to voice changer/software that has been suggested in this forum. You just have to somehow master the program as updates/improvements continue to come along. You can save the whole thing as an MP3 file when you are done. It is so far one of the MUST to learn software if you are looking to get as real as it gets so far with MULTIPLE human voices. You can still use the other free software but so far Polly can create different sound human voices.
You yourself count as well. Some people out there can change their voices to sound differently with tricks and techniques....no software....just your human voice.
This was very well done, he sounded like a little girl, not really a woman, but I like how he outlined the steps to it. If you can achieve this, even to a small degree, then an electronic voice change COMBINED with the modified Posture, Accent, and Pitch will give you really good results. If you can add a touch of the electronic and not have to worry about it doing the heavy lifting, you can emulate the truer sound. As opposed to if you would strictly rely on the electronic, you will get the doubling and digital artifacts on your voice....But, if you add just a touch, on top of your own self-voice modification, its likely to push it into the convincing zone. Very similar to the Bloom effect in iClone 7, it's more 'realistic' when not overdone, in that it emulates the real sensory experience in the actual environment. Too much kills it, that is unless you want it being artificial.
Likewise, take his steps in reverse if you are a woman and you can get a man's voice:
-Larger mouth, speak with back of throat,not front of mouth
-Reduce the blended musicality, more choppy binary staccato tempo
-Lower pitch
-Reduce accented flare of R's and S's
And invert these of your own voice if you are a man to get a woman's voice.
A compressor or noise gate will also give you a cleaner vocal sound if too much digital artifacting from the pitch shifting of the electronic voice modification.
Cool topic!!!!