I rerecorded my writing exercise “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness” this week.
In the older filmmaker’s club, we discussed ideas for films about issues of aging. I had not been able to come up with any ideas. Then it occurred to me that I might be able to rework my writing exercise “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness” to focus more on elder issues.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve experimented with a program called Voice.ai, which transforms your voice into the voice of a celebrity. I thought I could use it to alter my voice to differentiate characters in the recordings of my writing exercises. Since I wanted to share the recording of “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness”, I thought it would make sense to test voice.ai to redo the voices.
My initial impression is that the system isn’t really intended to be used in the way I wanted to use it. It does allow you to modify a recording, but there is a fifteen second time limit. It was fairly easy to cut up my recordings into shorter files and do the conversion.
To start, I used my earlier recording. However, I noticed some glitches in the output voice. I decided that those were because when I didn’t articulate a word very well, the ai would make it worse. I need to articulate better when I record my voice to avoid the problem.
I rerecorded all the character dialogue and converted the voices. I don’t think the changed voices sound all that much like the real people they are supposed to sound like. For my purposes, I see that as a plus. There were a few lines that sounded a bit robotic to me, but that was more because of the way I read the line, than a problem with the ai.
I cut the new dialogue into the old recording and posted it on soundcloud.
I used voices for two well know people. See if you can identify them.
