I don't have voice actors nor female friends but i'm doing a project where a poser girl will talk and have dialogue( lots of it). i'm sure there's somet software outthere( hopeflly shareware or freeware).. I guess most of it for windows computers. How about for mac? In Garageband vocal converter is good, it does what i want. But after garageband version 2.. , in version 3 they messed up the vocal converter thing so that now it sounds like a robot. Before it sounded natural but now it's meessed up. I'm so mad about that. Anyways, is there anyother solution b esides Garageband vocal changer effect?

Basically, you want to change the pitch without changing the speed. I do that all the time to change my voice into that of different characters in my animations. Sorta how "The Incredibles" director Brad Bird became the voice of Edna Mode in the movie. If you have a Mac you probably have Garage Band, which has tools to do that. You can also record your voice there, or drop in a WAV or AIFF file you've recorded elsewhere. Soundtrack Pro's tools (if you have Final Cut Studio) are even better. Using tools in addition to the pitch adjuster can help you tailor the voice even more, though I confess to not using them much. Finally, if you don't have either of those, The Amazing Slowdowner (www.ronimusic.com/slowdown.htm) is an easy-to-use bargain at $45.00. I have it and sometimes use it instead of the Garage Band and Soundtrack tools. Now, there may be some freeware out there, but I don't know about it. SS

umm. thanks but i told you the garageband problem and you still suggested gband^_^ it's ok though, i guess you didn't read my gband rant

You can use PRAAT - its here:http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl - and its free Thats the manual page: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Sound__Change_gender___.html

PRAAT: very interesting.  I used to work in phonetics research, and remember
trying to use the very first edition of PRAAT in 1987 or so.  It came on dozens
of floppies and cost $1500 iirc....... I never could make it work for our purposes
(mainly jitter and shimmer analysis and intonation research) because it was 
just a set of libraries and source code, with no obvious way to connect to 
the data from a wave.  Given months of total immersion, I probably could have
done something with it, but we didn't have that luxury ... anyway I had already 
rigged up some programs to do the analysis, perhaps more crudely than
PRAAT would have done.

This latest version appears to be much easier to use, and is certainly cheaper!

This is an interesting thread. Is there an inexpensive stand alone device that will allow you to dub voices in real time for film or video?

I doubt that you'll find an -inexpensive- realtime pitch changer.  It's
an inherently difficult process, and there aren't even many programs
that do it well.   CoolEdit, now called Adobe Audition, is one.

I'm fiddling with PRAAT right now, but still haven't mastered the new
version.  Will report on progress if any.....

I know Yamaha makes a realtime device for use in recording studios, 
and there are some general-purpose DSP boxes that do a 
variety of tasks like noise-canceling, flanging and pitch altering.
But they're all rather expensive.

Attached Link: Audacity

I use it with my music all the time, including its pitch changing feature (admittedly I've never tried voice-changing, though).

I don't know about tebop, but I was looking for something that would do real-time, on the fly conversion. There are circumstances in which dubbing might occur over the phone for example and it would be nice to be able to have the character voice sound the way it should as it's spoken. For example, some radio voice actors do their skits via telephone in real time. It makes them a little more versitle if they could do male and female voices regardless of their sex and natural pitch.

I would point out that the GB setting are just presets and you can go in and alter the parameters. For vocal work the human ear is very sensitive, if you need a female voice, get a female to do the voice track you can't beat the real thing.

Try searching for audio editors that allow "formant shifting."  This will allow you to change the pitch of your voice without making it sound like a chipmunk.

One of the better ones is Melodyne by Celemony, it's easy to use and works very well.  Unfortunately its pretty expensive, though they have a demo for download on their website.  You can't save with it, but at least you'll have an idea of what's possible.  I'm amazed at how convincingly I can alter my voice with it.

The lower end editors are likely to give poorer results with more distortion.

If you don't have the budget, search for editors that allow formant shifting, but if you need very good results then you may have to shell out for something more pro.

Does Logic Express make better Voice changing than GBand??? GBand has this robotic warble over the recording...but being that logic express is supposedly better than Gband, i would think it handles it better. By the way Mastermind.. Logic express and logic pro have formant shifting i heard. so would you recommend this for me. ? l besides i also need better music and audio program, so i was thinking of buying logic express7

tebop, I've never use Logic, so I can't make a recommendation.  I read in a couple of places that melodyne was the best hands down for pitch and formant shifting, after trying it I was quite impressed.  It made the cheap plugin and shareware formant shifters not even worth the download.  I can't say if it's the best, but its very good.

You may want to ask this question on a pro audio board.  There will be guys out there that have used every pro audio editor and can give you comparisons.

tebop, sorry I glossed over your Garage Band critique. I guess I have used Soundtrack Pro and The Amazing Slowdowner pretty much exclusively over the past couple of years, so I tried the latest Garage Band. You're right -- it's kinda robotic. Amazing Slowdowner is definitely better, unless you wanna go for a bigger toolset in Logic Express.