Robot voice simulation

[wifebot]

Hello all. Has anyone had any luck finding something to simulate a robot voice for rp? I looked at voice modifiers on Amazon and the reviews were terrible. So...any thoughts? Recommendations?

[xerxes31415]

I'm assuming you want this to be real time? As in, you don't want to prerecord what you're saying then send it over.

There might be some options to play with in some professional audio suites, which do have free versions. You may have to create your own by adding clipping and reverb and whatnot to get the sound you want, but you'll have complete control over it. I think ProTools has a free starter version that's pretty good.

Hope that helps.

[dale coba]

http://www.nchsoftware.com/voicechanger/

I think this software may satisfy our needs. It is cross-platform and free. The presets are not close to what we are looking for; however the tools are handy.



If you know the formula, so much reverb and this much pitch modulation and so forth, it should be easy to get your results with Voxal.



I hope we will be sharing our findings, I can't wait to see what sorts of voices people can come up with.

- Dale Coba

[darkbutflashy]

And for all of you who are in bad need of having a robotic voice assistant, there's MaryTTS speech synthesis and a little SOX postprocessing. I made a small shell script which produces a fairly fembotic voice

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#!/bin/bash

LOCALE=en_US
MARYTTS=http://mary.dfki.de:59125
SOX_PARAMS='
	phaser 0.8 0.74 3 0.4 0.5 -t
	overdrive 20
	chorus 0.9 0.9 50 0.5 0.10 2 -t
	echo 0.9 0.8 33 0.9
	echo 0.7 0.7 10 0.2
	echo 0.9 0.2 55 0.5
	gain 10
	reverb
'

curl $MARYTTS/process \
	--silent \
	--data INPUT_TYPE=TEXT \
	--data OUTPUT_TYPE=AUDIO \
	--data AUDIO=WAVE_FILE \
	--data LOCALE=$LOCALE \
	--data effect_Robot_selected=on \
	--data-urlencode INPUT_TEXT@- \
	| play -q - $SOX_PARAMS

In addition to that script, you need only curl, sox, and play installed, but that's pretty standard on any Linux distribution.
Save it as "fembotvoice", mark it executeable and call it with

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echo 'All systems engaged!' | ./fembotvoice 

It will also read longer texts from files of course. MaryTTS supports a wide range of languages/speakers, adjust the locale accordingly. The example code uses the online demo of MaryTTS, if you like to have her say things the science gals of DFKI should not take notice of, you might want to install MaryTTS locally. Just download the ZIP archive from http://mary.dfki.de/download/index.html, unpack it and start bin/marytts-server. After that, change the URL inside the script to http://localhost:59125 and let her talk dirty.

Have fun!

[wifebot]

Thanks for the replies! I apologize for my lack of clarity, but I was really hoping for something a little more...in the moment. As an example: http://www.amazon.com/Toysmith-1377-Voi ... ransformer

[N6688]

Thanks for the replies! I apologize for my lack of clarity, but I was really hoping for something a little more...in the moment. As an example: http://www.amazon.com/Toysmith-1377-Voi ... ransformer

I think i found a cheap but a small voice changer that you can wear on your mouth like a gasmask

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Spyware ... B005VI1ZGY

I tried to find throat mics with portable loudspeakers, but apparently that doesn't exsist
All the other ones are hand held devices, and that would break imersion a bit.
Besides, with this mask you will look more robotic anyway, so that would be a plus.