The second example of Pitch and Formant shifting using the robot setting of LittleAlterBoy sounds very similar to the T1 series tactical droids from the Clone Wars series. I have been trying to find a way to recreate this effect, so this is a perfect find. Thanks!
I got really good results out of Paul Stretch (or PaulXStretch if you prefer the plugin) Set stretch amount to 1.0 and FFT size to 0.29 and you're set (edit: on a vocal sample ofc) Out of the box it gets you right in the ballpark for the Russian robo voice from Better Than Us (Netflix)
I've just been working on 'RoBoT' voice techniques... I found 'time stretching' got some interesting effects... & using the same sample twice, L & R channels, slightly out of time.... Kinda like your delay idea..... Gonna try some of your ideas now, cheers
Great video, lots of things I've never considered. Another approach is granular sampling, along with techniques to add "glitchy" stutters and sample-holds.
Liked the Silon (Vocoding) and Speach And Spell methods the best, though I guess its best to have a variety and not stay on a few. A video had a text to speach sythesizer singing.
Nice but i have a question how can you incorporate the robotic sound with real time voice , where by one speaks and the outcome is the robotic sound live in real time?
I love these things and have recently become facinated by how complex of a robotic voice processing scheme they use for the game Atomic Heart. They have all kinds of robots and they all have their different processing, from ring mod to the pitch layered and high frequency frequency cross modulation effects added to different robot models. But what really fascinated me is that for the "char-les" glove and nora crafting station, the intensity and modulation of the applied affect varies across intonation. If the char-les glove speaks in a low tone, there's only one pitch you can hear, but as higher his intonation becomes the more different pitch bloom in. And the ring modulation of the tereshkova and nora voices also modulate in a certain way depending on the way they speak. Must have been a lot of work to process all these sentences.
Hi. I really enjoy this video since it brings me back to my childhood. I heard LPC everywhere back in the past. It was commonly used on Vtech toys of the 80s and 90s. Do you know if an app on IOS exists that can do this LPC processing? I've been searching for years and haven't found any. Thanks.
Great video. Thanks for sharing! PS. Talk box was my first approach to robot voice recreation, it's really fun to play with BUT it's harder than you expect (i failed as well :) )
Thanks for watching! Talk box is one of those "that looks easy" things. It's almost an instrument in itself because of the coordination you need to learn to master it.
Great video. Sonic Charge also created a plugin called Chipspeech which emulates the Speak'n'Spell (and many other) speech synthesis algorithms in great depth.
Yes you're correct. These videos are not really targeted towards beginners. The examples in this case are more for the purposes of inspiring new ideas rather than being a step by step tutorial. I could probably have made this clearer.
Ross, great tutorial, thanks. I am trying to duplicate the Cylon voice, but I don't know how to set the Vocoder parameters. And what is the frequency of the sawtooth tone? Please let me know?
Don’t forget one of the original voice synthesis creations by Texas Instruments in 1980 was the PHP 1500 solid state speech synthesizer side cart for the TI-99/4a computer / game console. It creates phonemes and sounds like the voice on Radiohead Happier Fitter and Limp Biscuit Behind Blue Eyes
