chow choppe Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 Hi there.... i am learning a lot from cgarchitect...thanks to everyone.. here is another question... I am working on a walkthrough and in the final presentation there will be five five seconds of some text giving the area details and other stuff about the building... Now the client wants that there should be a voice reading those text lines... I have no idea how can that be done....i need a strat from scratch information regarding this...please help Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokkins Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 use an editing software whre you can merge you voice.mp3 file into an avi file to make an mpeg file. if you cant do that, try recording your voice and put it in powerpoint, one voice per line so that it will sync well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chow choppe Posted August 12, 2005 Author Share Posted August 12, 2005 actually i want to use a professional voice... is there any software in which u just type type the sentence and it just reads it and u can record it...(maybe i am asking for 2 much) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 actually i want to use a professional voice... is there any software in which u just type type the sentence and it just reads it and u can record it...(maybe i am asking for 2 much) there are a tone of apps that will do this, but i would not consider this a professional voice. the problem you are going to run into is the timing, tone/pitch, and emphasize qualities that are heard in human voices. actually i have not looked in to the upper high end of apps that do this. i am sure they have many advancement in the quality of replicating a voice, but i would still seriously doubt that they would make it undistinguishable from the real thing. when was the last time you mistook the lady on the other line at your credit card company for being an actual person. the sound decent, but you can easily tell. .....but if that is the effect you are going for, then by all means, try it. ....one more thing. stick to .wav files or similar uncompressed format when first recording the audio. much like you don't want to compress a animation from a previously compressed animation, you don't want to compress sound from a previously compressed sound file. mp3 is a highly compressed sound file. by the time you recompress it, it will sound like shit. ..and the file will probably be larger than the first compressed one. more noise to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chow choppe Posted August 13, 2005 Author Share Posted August 13, 2005 Hi travis ...thanks for the info... In case i want to record my own voice then whats the procedure to do it...what all do i need? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chow choppe Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Hi travis... where are you????????????????// Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 i haven't looked into quality depth at a profesional level, but every windows computer comes with an app called soundrecorder (start-programs-accessories-entertainment), which is about as basic of a sound recorder as you can get. you plug in a mic, hit record, and it records a wave file of whatever you say. the only other app i have used recently was a freeware app called audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/). i used it to rip a wave file from a old vcr tape. the results were fairly good, considering how many time the audio had been processed. digital to analog to digital creates noise. ...but i think there are quite a few of stripped down higher end apps that i think you can use for free now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 If you wont laugh I can share a trick - Any half decent microphone would do the trick is to get a wire coat hanger and some pantyhose or a thin sock (perferably new so you don't faint from the smell). fashon the wire coat hanger to a base at the bottom and a to a ring in other. Then stretch the pantyhose over the ring tightly. Place the pantyhose device 1-2 inces infront of the microphone and then talk directly infront. As funny as this all sound what this is, is a simple wind preventing deflector so you don't get that amnature wind reverberations - or backfeed noise.. In my old job, at times I witnessed professional voice recordings in studios for character animation, the sound boom guy told me this trick and it works very well - if you can get over the idea talking into a sock. As said before - stick to wav. file format, however I find in industry macs aiff is used more - a proffessional sound guy will frown if you mention wav.. We use adobe premiere to mix, but I have heard good things about sound forge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 As said before - stick to wav. file format, however I find in industry macs aiff is used more - a proffessional sound guy will frown if you mention wav. ...what file format is the preffered format for proffesional recording? do they frown because it is an old format that isn't as robust as some of the new formats? becuase the term is used by som many people i a loose way? ..?? just curious. the thing i find nice about .wav besides being uncompressed.. nearly every piece of software dealing with audio will read the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 *.aiff (at least I think thats the file type) is the file type as I stated before - but as far as I know you can only edit these files with a mac computer (or I haven't been able to find software on a pc to edit them). This file type is what the professionals were using at the time. They were negative about wav files because they didn't feel that doing sound work on a pc was good on mac I guess its something to do more with industry standard- Sorry man that's their answer not mine. I don't know why, I find wav files are just as good, but then again I get sound samples from professional movie/music companies that they want me to incorporate into animation in mp3 format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 without getting into it, it sounds as though it may be just as much a mac/pc thing, as opposed to which has better quality. i have used aif to wav file converters in the past to convert mac sound libraries to the windows enviroment. they worked relatively well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 it sounds as though it may be just as much a mac/pc thing, as opposed to which has better quality Yup, at least that's how I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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