Robotic Tone?

[Boltrig]

Hey. I dont really know what Im doing when it comes to audio, Im basic at best. The only audio edtiors I have are Nero wave editor and audacity.

Im hoping someone can help me out. I need to make a few characters in my upcoming movie have a slightly robotic tone to their voice.

Nothing drastic, just enough to sound as though their speech is being modulated by electronic equipment.

If you've ever played Fire Warrior, I need a tonal quality that resembles the Tau voices.

Thanks in advance guys

[HybrisHybrid]

Well no one else is responding to this so I'll give it a shot although I've never used audacity and I don't know what Fire Warrior is. =) at the very least I'll bump the thread right?

I'd do one or more of the following things, keep in mind I've never tried this.

-Lower the pitch of the voice. Talking in falsetto and then lowering the pitch might give it the right effect. Otherwise talking low and raising the pitch? Try both if there two different characters and you want recognizable voices.

-Use a filter to get rid of the lower tones. Lowering all frequencies except ~800-3000Hz will give it that answering machine sound. Try messing around until it sounds good to you.

-Use the flanger effect - this is probably you're best bet and you might want to do this before messing with pitch and filters to get the right effect. Of course I'm not sure how good audacity's flanger effect is, but if you can mess with it, make it fast and wide.

-Alternatively use a quick echo - really quick. That might give you a cool robotic sound.

Shit I don't know use the wah-wah. Have you even tried any of these effects? Audacity has them, if you put some effort into experimenting, I'm sure you'd get the results you want.

Well good luck, hope that helps

[Voyd]

What you are looking for is a vocoder. Vocoders make that robot voice, and many others. Just search for a free vocoder on google. I have Zerious. It works good, and its free. Its a standalone program.