Change Your Voice Digitally
By Scarlet Pham, Sat Dec 10th

Most of us may have the idea of disguising our voice once in awhile for some purpose, especially small kids. Today, a widerange of voice changing tools are developed, both for kids andbusiness purposes. Simple ones are masks for kids that canchange voice to some other voices, and a small box used formobile phones which can switch among 4-6 voices or so.

Digital voice changers make a great step further. Any voice orsound that goes through a computer can be changed dramaticallythanks to the voice changing software, i.e. voice chat, IPphoning, computer recording, music playing, internetstreaming,... There are more great possibilities you might wantto discover:

Change voice freely by adjusting voice values. Some voicechanging software can change voice by adjusting voice pitchrather than choosing among a limited number of voices. VoiceChanger Software (www.audio4fun.com) providesmore adjusting possibilities: voice pitch, voice timbre, andvoice frequency.

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voice in real time. Perhaps the coolest functionof voice changer software is that it can change voice right away. Speak to the microphone and you may laugh the first timehearing your strange voice. Chat addicts now can have tons offun: they can disguise themselves in voice chat.

Change any audio that goes through the computer. If youwant to change voice or audio that is played or recorded from anaudio device, say, a CD/DVD/karaoke machine, then all you needto do is to get it lined in to your computer and voice changersoftware will do its part.

Fake identity? So far Avnex, the author company of VoiceChanger Software, claims this possibility as an advancedachievement in voice manipulation, although there are still manydifferent opinions on the morality of its applications. So ifyou can fake someone's voice, what do you think you would dowith it?

About the author:Scarlet Pham is the Marketing Associate of Audio4fun.com. Sheworks on customer-based market research, product development,and relationship management. Contact her at media@audio4fun.com.