Voice changer
A voice changer (also known as voice enhancer) is a device which changes the tone or pitch of or adds distortion to the user's voice.
Hardware implementations
[edit]The earliest voice changers were electronic devices usually used over the telephone for the purpose of disguise. There are low-priced, small lithium battery-powered voice changers that are used between a phone's mouthpiece and the user's mouth.[1][2][3][4][5]
More sophisticated voice changers have different levels of various distortion effects variable by faders.[6][7]
Software implementations
[edit]Nowadays, software implementations are very common. There is a plethora of techniques that modify the voice by using different algorithms.[8][9] Most algorithms modify the voice by changing the amplitude, pitch and tone of the voice. The pitch plays an important role from changing a male voice into female voice, and vice versa. The results of voice changing through software are quite impressive and satisfactory.[10]
"Voice cloning" software can mimic the sound of a specific person's voice based on recordings of that voice.[11]
References
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- ^ Ahmed, I.; Sadiq, A.; Atif, M.; Naseer, M.; Adnan, M. (February 2018). "Voice morphing: An illusion or reality". 2018 International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS). pp. 1–6. doi:10.1109/ICACS.2018.8333282. ISBN 978-1-5386-2172-1. S2CID 4775311.
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