Voice impersonator/spoofer software?

[chowmein]

This supposedly can match your voice to a target voice, I've had it bookmarked for a while now for a project I've had up my sleeve but alas I haven't actually tried it yet.

[Mephesto]

That VoiceConverter gave me a hard-on when I saw that Spanish re-dubbing of Betty's voice done auto, unfortunately it failed to produce when I tried using my voice to match any character I tried. The character is an adults voice made to be a kids so it's high pitched with lots of timbre but that Voice Converter just made my voice to a punk kid's without the timbre, and it's weird it would do that with all the median pitch matching, formant matching and even the EQ.

Trying to match to a teen girl made my voice sound like a fat, old woman.

All the settings are customizable on the program but either it's beyond the scope of their capabilities or I'm giving the wrong input, and it's likely #2 because I don't really know what I'm doing, lol. There's no timbre setting on it but there is formant. The pitch must also process timbre because it doesn't work like a pitch shifter normally does.

[Mephesto]

Update: I contacted the Voice Converter staff, told them I'd buy their program if they would be able to match my voice to the target's since I couldn't do it. They failed and their result sounded worse than when the program did it auto.

They responded with feigning ignorance and pretending that voice matching has any other purpose besides its advertised function.

I asked them why the hell I would pick teengirl.wav target if I wanted to sound like an old obese woman or why I would want to sound like a chipmunk with a lisp if my intended target was a kid cartoon.

Silence followed.

So I take it they're not interested in my $30.

I guess its easier to fool limp-dicked anime fandubbers than Blu-ray rippers.

[jagabo]

When I heard the sample at their web site I was suspicious. Matching a highly artificial cartoon voice was a hint that their software wouldn't work too well with real voices.

[Mephesto]

Artificial cartoon voice? That was in 1935 when all voices were real and their software doesn't work with artificial OR real voices. It's just that human ears don't perceive high pitched sounds with as much clarity so you can't notice the problems in it.

They cherry-picked that sample for a good reason.

[budwzr]

Maybe this will clarify a few things...

There are a class of DSP devices & algorithms known as "formant processors" that specifically work on what you guys are referring to as "timbre", which have to do with ....

Scott

Yes! You need a professional DAW to change "timbre", as in male to female, etc. Not an easy task.

I sometimes work with voice files generated by computer, and try to "humanize" them, and it's tedious.