Korgscrew
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Posted: Dec. 29 2003, 14:38 |
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It would be possible to make a woman sound like that, but it would also be possible to make a man sound like that. Formant shifts are important here, and they're something which dbruce's files don't show the effects of - it would be possible to make the two caveman voices sound even more like each other by shifting the formants (those are the resonant peaks in the frequency spectrum of a voice, some are fixed, some variable - the fixed ones are what make a woman and a man speaking at the same pitch sound different. Shift down the formants of a typical woman's voice without changing the pitch and make a high pitched man, shift up the formants in a typical man's voice and make a low pitched woman. Pitch shifting up a recording of a voice on its own doesn't create the same sound as that same voice singing/speaking at that raised pitch, as the pitch shift also shifts the formants upwards, making the classic chipmunk type sound). Formant shifts could of course probably be used to make Mike sound like Sally and Sally sound like Mike, or they could be used to create quite convincing male and female cavemen from the same voice.
My thought is that it could easily have been more of an accidental thing, with Mike finding that, while processing the voice part, it was rather funny to shift it upwards instead of down, and the caveman duet was born...whatever happened, those voices certainly don't sound natural to me, the high one especially.
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