KenCoon (1/24/2015)
My voice is not good right now for some reason.
I need to use a Text to Speech program to make a Narrator voice and possible other voices to run through Morphvox Pro.
Ken:)Hi Ken,
I have Morphvox Pro too, it's a cool program even though their website is older than we are I think! hahaha!
I found that if you put different things in between words or sentences in Morphvox, like ' or ;; or ... it changes the way the voice reads the sentence before moving on to the next one. I've also changed some words that they couldn't pronounce right with what the word sounds like with pretty good results. Sometimes putting a capital letter in a word will make it chAnge the way it says too.
Anyways;
There are few good TTS voice programs out there but as you know they can be costly. However, you can purchase just a voice without the expensive software, I bought some years ago from
Cepstral and from
AT&T Natural Voices. I was looking for my email receipts for the price but I think they were only around $1o to $15. I used them in CrazyTalk 5 & 6 & 7, and have been playing around with them in iC5 & 6, Microsoft TTS voices are free, and they are getting better at how they sound, still not 100% human sounds though.
There is a little quirk I found when downloading the free TTS trial softwares, after you uninstall them, for some reason, they leave the voices behind in the folder they were installed in. I found I can use them in other software like Morphvox and they show up in the iClone text to speech voice list too I noticed. The best ones I've found so far were from IVONA. I can still use them, but... if you're going to use them in videos that get put up on YouTube you might want to buy a license for the voices or you could get in trouble.
Honestly, if you just keep recording your own voice and get used to how it sounds being played back to you, I think you'll find that you are the only one who doesn't like the way you sound, my radio announcer buddy taught me that. The more you practice the better it gets because you learn to just relax and let it go. Get silly and goofy making voices for different characters if you want, they may just sound better than you think. I'm getting my son, his wife to be and grandkids to help me do some dialogs as soon as I can get them to stop staring at me!
Try this software
Audio Record Wizard for recording yourself and edit the pitch in Audacity to change it a little bit to help ease you along, write down the settings when you found a good one so you can repeat the process, and the better microphone you can get ahold of the better it'll be too!
Whew that was a long winded reply!!
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