Robot voices

ken · Post by **ken** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:45 am

Hi All,

I need robot voices for a track I am working on. Does anyone know a good place to get them? I would like to be able to tell it what to say.

Ken

Post by jb » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:12 am

Fruityloops has a gizmo that does exactly this.

UnDesirable · Post by **UnDesirable** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:07 pm

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~thman/VST/vst-eff3.htm

There are some free plugins at this site. If you scroll to the middle of the page there is a plugin from Steinberg called "Tranceformer". It is a ringmodulator that can give you a robotic sound when applied to a vocal track. It is for a windows platform.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:37 pm

If you have a mac, you can just write out whatever you want it to say in textedit, then tell it to speak it, and record it as it speaks it. You can use whatever voices come with the mac (like 10 or 20). At least one sounds like Stephen Hawking.

UnDesirable · Post by **UnDesirable** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:48 pm

If you are talking about text-to-speech programs. Here are a few and some are free.
http://www.download.com/Voice-Recogniti ... ag=stbc.gp

I've used Speakonia which is on the second page. Ultra HAL looks interesting.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:06 pm

jb wrote:Fruityloops has a gizmo that does exactly this.

My "ABCD Puppies" used the fruityloops voice

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:17 pm

UnDesirable wrote:Ultra HAL looks interesting.

Ultra HAL is AWESOME! So much better than the SAM program I had for my Commodore 64 way back...

I promise to all of you, I'm going to try REALLY hard not to have robot voices in my music.

Well, ok. Maybe like one tune...that's got to be allowed, right?

great link UnDesirable...

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:31 pm

Kraftwerk use vocoders to modify their own voices, like I did in "We Are All Famous."
My vocoder was a software one.
But if you just want spoken robots, text-to-speech is what you're after.
-bill

UnDesirable · Post by **UnDesirable** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:36 pm

TheHipCola wrote: Ultra HAL is AWESOME! So much better than the SAM program I had for my Commodore 64 way back...

I just tried Ultra HAL and it seemed pretty good, but..........
I ran spybot afterwards and it seems to have put some tracking software on my machine. I also noticed it was automatically loading on my systems tray during startup so I took it off there. Now HAL doesn't want to run, so I uninstalled it. Speakonia has a few less voices but it never gave me these problems.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:22 am

well, well, well....lucky for me I only installed on my work computer....DOH!

bastards. Funny though, I barely played with it last night, and this morning when I booted up my PC it started reading all of my dialogue boxes to me...freaked me out.

guess i'll have to remove it then. spyware sucks. Thanks for the tip!

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:25 pm

A vocoder would do fine as well.

ujnhunter · Post by **ujnhunter** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:49 pm

windows 95 used to have a built in text reader robot voice... ala OK Computer... not sure what it was called or if it comes on any Windows versions other than 95...

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:17 am

For about $15 you can buy an excellent robot voice toy at Toys R Us. Look around. Kids were into these voice affecters a couple years ago. Mine is a collapsable megaphone with pitch control, distortion control and robotic effects.

fretnoize · Post by **fretnoize** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:31 pm

ujnhunter wrote:windows 95 used to have a built in text reader robot voice... ala OK Computer... not sure what it was called or if it comes on any Windows versions other than 95...

Actually I believe it's still available on all versions of windows under accessibility options. Used as a tool to help the vision impaired. I'm in OSX right now so I can't confirm.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:30 pm

I'd just say to use a vocoder, or a pitch corrector set to only do one note (and sing a different note). Maybe add some flanging.

I hope you can finish your track soon, Ken!

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:04 pm

I've read that sounding like a robot is a good bit more about how you sing/talk than the effect, when you add the two together. Dunno if that's true, but work on trying to sound unemotional.
-bill

fretnoize · Post by **fretnoize** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:53 pm

fluffy wrote:I hope you can finish your track soon, Ken!

haha yeah... considering: PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject: Robot voices

any luck in the past 3 years with finishing that track?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:22 am

(that was the joke)