Voice Effects

questions · Nov 30, 2006, 09:52 AM

Does anyone have any idea how I can make a recorded voice of a young person sound like an elderly person, particularly using pro tools?

zimv20 · Nov 30, 2006, 11:27 AM

will it be written and performed to sound elderly? that's what'll get you most of the way there.

from an engineering standpoint, to finish:
1. use time compression / expansion to slow down the speech and drop the pitch
2. edit in gaps in certain places to make it halting
3. EQ out any kid-sounding artifacts
4. EQ in any kind of artifacts that heighten the elderly thing (like wheezing)

interesting exercise. what's it for?

questions · 02:30 PM

It's a project for my audio class. We have to just use the human voice and I wanted to do a sort of human life span where the voices of different stages kind of morph into each other. I could record my own voice, but I'm not sure how I could make myself voice sound "elderly". I was going to just try to use one of the voices I have for the adult voice, but I wasn't sure what else I can do besides pitch shifting.

While I'm asking questions, is there a free converter I can download to convert aif and mp3s to wav files?

Nov 30, 2006, 09:52 AM	#1
questions macrumors member Join Date: Dec 2005	Voice Effects Does anyone have any idea how I can make a recorded voice of a young person sound like an elderly person, particularly using pro tools?
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Nov 30, 2006, 11:27 AM	#2
zimv20 macrumors 601 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: chicago	will it be written and performed to sound elderly? that's what'll get you most of the way there. from an engineering standpoint, to finish: 1. use time compression / expansion to slow down the speech and drop the pitch 2. edit in gaps in certain places to make it halting 3. EQ out any kid-sounding artifacts 4. EQ in any kind of artifacts that heighten the elderly thing (like wheezing) interesting exercise. what's it for? __________________ Oct 2011: check out my band's first album @ boxsetauthentic.com
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Nov 30, 2006, 02:06 PM	#3
questions Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Dec 2005	It's a project for my audio class. We have to just use the human voice and I wanted to do a sort of human life span where the voices of different stages kind of morph into each other. I could record my own voice, but I'm not sure how I could make myself voice sound "elderly". I was going to just try to use one of the voices I have for the adult voice, but I wasn't sure what else I can do besides pitch shifting. While I'm asking questions, is there a free converter I can download to convert aif and mp3s to wav files? Last edited by questions; Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30 PM.
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