Re: Male to Female Voice

["Michael Billow" <mbillow@gmail.com>]

Most sound blaster cards like the Audigy series, or SBLive have pitch changing software that comes with it. They run under 100, but you can find one used for about 10 bucks.

On Nov 15, 2007 1:16 PM, < mike@michaelplishka.com> wrote:

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
>