Robotic voice

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Hey cool edit dudes.
I have some voices that i want to make quite mechanical, much like the stephen hawking sound, and the sound that radiohead used on fitter happier.
Is there a setting on cool edit pro which does the job.
I've tried flanging it and then putting on a chorus and then detuning but it just don't sound right.
If not, know of any 'plugins!' which I could use to get it.

Cheers for the help dudes

Bert
 
Hey, I am at work right now, but if you email me, mastahnke@yahoo.com I can look it up for you when I get home. I know I have a few things that can it.
MIKE
 
cool edit has a couple of these effects but I've never liked the quality...Surely there are better ones around..
Someone hear will know for sure.

I can't remember exactlywhat they were called in cool edit but I remember when I tried them they were dissapointing!!.
 
I haven't forgotten about your question, but the answers were not just staring me in the face. To get a good robotic voice, there a few options I can think of. Some of them have nothing to do with audio software though. In CEP 1.2 there is a feature called the vocoder. You might try that. If you play a part that sounds like you want it to sound and then combine a vocal track with it, you can get a decent vocal effect.
If you can get your hands on a MAC they have a text editor called simpletext. Anything you type it will 'say' back to you, much in the computer voice you are hoping for, just record that and you will have what you need. If you are only using PCs then try using MS Agent. That is a program that uses stupid little web characters to talk and navigate around web pages. Some pages allow you to enter text and have it read aloud so you could record it to do what you want. I know there are a few pluggins that can do this, but I haven't been able to really find any. You might check out AnalogX site.
MIKE
 
this is the answer you need.

well this isnt exactly in CEP but it will get you computer voices....

Go here...

http://www.elantts.com/indemo.htm

this thing has several voices in several accents such as german brazilian or french... along with english and some more

its pretty cool and its free to use this interactive demo i found.... its the most realistic voices i have found from a voice generater.... (dont worry they still sound like computer voices)



Orlot
 
cheers

thanks for the tips and links ma man
they work like a charm.
many thanks
 
The best way to get those computer voices the way you want them exactly I've found is using a vocoder. Get the one from AnalogX, it's freeware. It comes with a carrier signal that makes your voice sound robotic. You can do some other really cool stuff with a vocoder too, like using crowd screams as a carrier, and you're singing as a modulator. You get a pretty good sounding sound of a huge crowd singing the lyrics to your song.

Jake
 
I´m agree with that

Sure, the best way is getting a vocoder than trying to experiment with strange things...

I´ve used Opcode Fusion, and works. You can also try another called Orange Vocoder, but I don´t remember the company´s name.

But it´s really nice!
 
I get these effects from a simple program I have made by Synoptic, it's called Voice FX. Its not a technical program but it has alot of cool options like robot, machine etc...
I sent some samples in an mp3 attached
 

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fitter happier was made by thom on his mac laptop using, like a previous poster said, simple text and setting it to talk back. i could be mistaken, but i believe the name of the voice is "Fred."
 
not that it helps to solve the problem, but there are some really well-done examples of this sort of thing at www.mchawking.com check out the mp3 section for a gangsta-rap dissertation on the concept of entropy.

www.analogx.com has a really cheesy one for free called "sayit"......I remember back when I had an AWE32 card there was a text-to-speech converter that came with it that did this sort of thing....also, Microsoft Plus for Kids for windows 95 had one that worked surprisingly well, but I don't know where to get a copy.

-Luci
 
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