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Free Radical
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 Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: Can I edit a sound file to include audio that I want? |
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Is there software that will allow me to edit a sound file to include audio that I want?
For example, let's say I download an audio file with Bart Simpson's
voice. I want to edit his voice to say what I want him to say.
Has anyone heard of software that can do this? |
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Brien
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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You could give the search phrase "talking text" a try in your favorite search engine.
I don't know, personally, of anything that could let you modify an audio file to the limit you are suggestion. That would be cool, but I don't know of it as it pertains to how you asked for it to work.
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Stacey
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Brien
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| True, that may convert text to speech at a useable level...but it won't be in Bart Simpsons voice:) |
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Stacey
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:42 am Post subject: |
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| I highly doubt such software will ever exist unless it was released from the company who currently owns the rights to "The Simpsons". |
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Free Radical
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I just used Bart Simpson as an example. I wanted to reference a familiar sound, however my request would suffice with pretty much any sound file...voices from a movie, song, etc....at least that's the intention behind what I'd like to do.
I'm about to check out that link. |
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Free Radical
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Two questions.
1) Does 'text to speech' technology or the usage of voice synthesizers permit for keeping the original voice (sound) such as in my Bart Simpson example?
2) Has anyone heard of Sony Vegas? Someone else recommended this on another site, and they said that it could do what I want. |
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Brien
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe this can help, FreeRad.
Take a clip of your recorded voice saying "Hello world, nice to meet you."
Then imagine, if you will, that software can extrapolate a synthesis of your voice, from this clip, saying any of over 10,000 different words coupled together in any of 15MIL variations. That is using English as the base, not any of the hundreds of other known languages.
What you want to do is not available to the public, per se. May not actually have been developed.
The data used to recreate a specific vocal timbre is huge! This just to do one voice!
It is, hell, I'll say it out loud, it is not possible to take a sample of someones voice and have a software program recreate this voice timbre to "say" anything that the user wants this synthesized voice to say.
But...I am open to be proven wrong, |
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lynnmonk
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with the other respondants that nothing has yet been developed that can do all you have asked convincingly.
Still, the best and easiest solution to your request (albeit the most expensive) is to hire a voice-over actor/impersonator to provide the voices you require.
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