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I have an idea in my head of what I sound like. On the outside, where everyone else is, I don't sound like that. This aspect of my life kinda bugs me, at times.
The solution is My Voiceover Guy. Simply, a few surgical tweaks and a bit of computer wizardry and Presto! I sound like Sean Connery or
Jack Thompson or Donald Sutherland or James Earl Jones or Luciano Pavarotti.
Well possible with existing technology, this is bound to be the next big thing in personal surgical enhancement.
Girls, you can also have whatever voice you want... Giada DiLaurentis, Alfre Woodward, Nigella Lawson, etc.
like this?
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[zeno, Sep 10 2008]
xkcd
http://xkcd.com/93/
Jeremy Irons Voiceover [sambwiches, Sep 17 2008]
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listening to recordings of me talking makes me want to retch. but i suspect that that has something to do with how we hear ourselves when we are constructing speech. Also i feel that the when i hear or see myself later there is a discord between the recording and my memory of the experience. + |
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This certainly needs a demonstration: |
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A recording of myself as heard by myself.
A recording of myself as heard by others. |
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So that we can tell the difference, duh. |
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Hey, nice idea - I'm normally pretty down on any form of surgical modification - but - for some reason, I quite like this. Trouble is, while surgury might give me the timbre and vocal texture of my favorite-voiced celebrity - I'm still going to have to work on my accent and diction. |
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...and there's a danger it'll all go horribly wrong and you'll end up sounding like Russell Brand. |
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Wubbzy had one of these in a recent episode. Of course it went haywire and he could then only utter Spike Jones-style sound effects. |
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This needs, a piece of string with a finger ring that is surgically inserted into your back.Once pulled via finger ring, said person resonates Bjork. |
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And then there's the question:
Will you sound like others think Sean Connery sounds like or will you sound like Sean Connery thinks he sounds like?
Verrry Shadows stuff |
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...and since I think I sound fine until I hear a recording, what will I think when I sound like James Earl Jones ? (or better still, that immense dude from "Underworld") |
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I would be satisfied with the voice of doctorremulac as manifest in his piston rocket youtube video. |
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This would be readily adjustable, through the use of differing computer programming for the effects of shape and resonant frequency of the larynx... very confusing for those smartarse sound analysts on last year's cop shows. |
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I was having a conversation the other day about 'foreign' films and the voice-actors who are employed to stand-in for well known celebrities - so there is for example, a German 'Bruce Willis' who, whenever a film with Bruce Willis comes out for the German market, will do the voice for the envested bruise-magnet. Likewise, there's probably a French Brad Pit etc. What was raised in the course of this conversation was that the underlying character of the hollywood superstar is modified by the voice-actor who portrays them - this device might allow a Foreign speaker to make it sound as though Jack Nicholson really does speak Spanish like a native. |
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Or allow you to speak Spanish like Jack Nicholson speaking Spanish like a native. |
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Speaking of which - does anyone know
how impressionists (I mean the people
who imitate other people's voices; not
the school of painters) cope with this? |
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I mean, how does an impressionist
produce a voice that sounds to me like
Sean Connery, when it must sound to
him like Sean Connery sounds to Sean
Connery, which is probably not the
same as Sean Connery sounds to the
Sean Connery impressionist. If you
follow. Question mark. |
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Yes - in fact, whilst a Sean Connery impressionist sounds even more like Sean Connery than Sean Connery to us, I suppose that the Sean Connery impressionists sound nothing like Sean Connery to Sean Connery himself. |
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Except maybe when trying to do a Russian accent (ahem - sorry Sean). |
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Anyway, impressionists just pick out the most characteristic or distinctive components, and emphasise those. True also for cartoonists, and possibly the school of painters too. |
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Which leads me to imagine that such a system could spiral out of control, as people try to out-do each other on the Sean Connery-ness of their voice. |
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I can mimic almost any voice I hear and do a passible imprsession, (my Zoidberg is spot on), yet my own voice sounds totally off when recorded. |
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I've never understood that. |
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// This certainly needs a demonstration //
I would love to know the algorithm that
would manipulate a waveform to provide
this. It seems disappointingly practical. |
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You could say a word then get a computer to translate the pronounciation into the new format, which would be acceptable for phones... actually that's so easily doable it's probably been done. |
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But to do it face-to-face would be very difficult. I imagine artificial resonators and dampers combined with a bit of thoracic surgery might give you the toolset, but there's no way to implant the know-how to let you emulate a Shakesperean actor or concert soloist's projection and articulation techniques. |
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There is, however, a series of tools that you can use with most new soundcards that allow you to emulate Opera, Concert, Arena, Stadium... an entire range of feedback options. |
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Easy to build in, I should think. |
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Heh. Reminds me of an old xkcd comic [link]: |
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"My goal: To make enough money to hire Jeremy Irons, the voice of Scar from The Lion King, to follow me around and do my dialogue." |
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