Voice altering software

[Mojooo]

I want to make some tutorial type videos but for various reasons I don't want to use my own voice

I have found some software that allows voice altering - the way it works is you plug your mic in and it can alter on the fly so you can just record your video and it will record the new voice

Only problem is that they don't have a good choice of voice or they are more designed for fun

There are lots of sites out there that do text to speech or will alter a file after its been recorded but thats not what I want

Anyone have a recommendation?

The best I have found is https://www.altered.ai/ but the voices they have for on the fly are limited (I want a British male voice, probably a bit older, like news narration).

Failing this, can anyone recommend any video editing software that can tweak a voice in post production? I am playing with Davinco Resole but it seems limited to pitch.

[nuyorican]

Sounds like a job for a voiceover artist. Would be a hell of a lot easier, cheaper and more natural than using tech to make yourself sound like something else.

Just get on Fiverrr or whatever it’s called and hire some Toast of London type

[Mojooo]

I thought of that but it adds in massive complexities that wouldn't apply if I could find the software

It would be even easier to do post processing than hire a voice over person.

I should have said this might be an on going thing on an ad hoc basis - not just a one of limited project where I just need to bang out a few videos. So having control over the process is helpful.

[Wacky Racer]

nuyorican said:

Sounds like a job for a voiceover artist. Would be a hell of a lot easier, cheaper and more natural than using tech to make yourself sound like something else.

Sir Trevor M'cDonald is free at the moment

[nuyorican]

Fair enough. The tech definitely exists. All those YouTube videos that are narrated by some kind of AI 1950’s English accent that sounds proper weird like it’s been auto-translated from Chinese.

The term ‘uncanny valley’ springs to mind.

Edited by nuyorican on Friday 31st May 19:46

[MitchT]

A quick Google of "ai speech generator" returns a number of sites that could, potentially, solve your problem.

[Mojooo]

MitchT said:

A quick Google of "ai speech generator" returns a number of sites that could, potentially, solve your problem.

I've tried a fair few but none seem to hit the spot

On the fly is obviously harder to get that post processing.

I want to avoid the ones that are obviously robotic.

[Norgles]

We have just done this exact thing at work for 7 hours of learning across various courses.

Here is what we did.

1. Recorded ourselves narrating in a Teams meeting using Microsoft Copilot to convert our voices to text
2. Then ran the text generated through Chat GPT to make sure it flows and was concise
3. Then used Speechify Studio to turn the text into audio.
4. Added the slides into Speechify
5. Output these as videos (slides and voices) for loading into our LMS

We used to use voice over artists but it was a pain if something changed as the new recorded bit never sounded the same. Using speechify it is all consistent. You can even add Avatars that speak the words as a presenter on screen.

Using Speechify it is all consistent and can be tweaked and re published in minutes

[biggiles]

Norgles said:

3. Then used Speechify Studio to turn the text into audio.
4. Added the slides into Speechify

Speechify looks very capable. Is it really as good as it looks, Norgles?