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Thanks Kris-very interesting article.
There's another basic one here:
http://www.xponaut.com/showpage?pid=126
The voicetweaker software essentially does what you are pointing out here.
I downloaded it (have yet to buy it) and tried it on a track I knew wasn't
in perfect pitch and also used it to transform my voice into a female. It
has a setting for "Male to female" and it did surprisingly well in making
a female sounding voice. I used it to clean up the pitch as well and it
did quite well. A few more tweaks and some verb and it would be very
usable. The thing I noticed with this software is that it needs a pitch to
start with. If you have some raspiness or some type of crud in your
throat it has a tough time fixing/transposing a pitch that is essentially
just noise. I could tweak it some more but it was late and after 10
minutes it stops working and I had to restart the program-so I opted for
sleep.
At $99 it's still not a bad deal. Couple with a $25 program like Clone
Ensemble and you might be able to make a pretty cool choir.
The project continues...
Plish
> Some things to consider.
>
> The voiced speech of a typical adult male will have a fundamental
> frequency of from 85 to 155 Hz, and that of a typical adult female from
> 165 to 255 Hz.
>
> Here is an interesting article:
> http://members.tgforum.com/jamie/fvoice/femv.html
>
> What you might do is some research on the spectral analyses of males and
> female voices, and then see what sort of enhancements you might have to
> apply to transform your voice.
>
> At first glance, I'm guessing you would need some pitch, a set of bi-quad
> filters to notch/boost certain key frequencies and frequency ranges, etc.
> The human voice is a complicated instrument. The challenge would be to
> increase the pitch of your voice without you sounding like a cartoon
> character or munchkin.
>
> Interesting project. It sound like something a student of max/msp would do
> in an advanced college class.
>
> Kris
>