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bferrell
09-28-2007, 09:00 AM
Thanks for answering my question on this week's episode, which seemed totally intuitive at first, but now I have a follow-up question.

So, you slowed down the playback of Pole Girls voice to get the pitch-change effect, makes sense. But that would make the clip longer (say you slow it down by half, it gets twice as long). How did you keep her lips in sync with the words with this difference in length?

Also, did you do something similar with the Robot voice in the robots BFX episode?

Brett
bferrell
09-28-2007, 12:19 PM
Nevermind, looks like you slowed down the whole deal - video and all, which I suppose means your actor needs to keep up their speaking cadence when delivering thier lines.

Still curious how to do the robot voice though, kind a "Stephen Hawking' computerized deal. Sweet.

Brett
felix78
09-28-2007, 12:50 PM
they didnt slow down with 50 procent, they slightly slowed down. not to much maybe 5%. and it doesnt change the mouth much at all.
spicysmoke
09-29-2007, 07:43 PM
The robot voice could just be done with like microsoft sam, and prerecord that and lipsync while acting.
Grandma
09-29-2007, 08:02 PM
The robot voice could just be done with like microsoft sam, and prerecord that and lipsync while acting.

I've never heard of Microsoft Sam and when I looked it up on Microsoft website I just found load of stuff on Software Asset Management (SAM).

Can you tell me more? Is it a voice changing program? Is it free?
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17thletterfilms
09-29-2007, 08:05 PM
Go to control panel (on a Windows system.) Make sure that it's on Classic view instead of the usual XP one. Then click on speech. That gets you to MS Sam. There are some other free programs out there like this, too. Just google "free text to speech programs"
Jacob-ne-a
09-29-2007, 08:21 PM
I use speakonia for those purposes its free and easy to use
justin
09-29-2007, 08:30 PM
To answer your question, there was a lot of wind noise in the original footage. Erik had moved from Cali to NYC already before the episode went up, and he needed a girl to re-record that small part. My girlfriend (the girl in the recent audio episode) agreed to do it, but she spoke a little too fast. Erik decided to just slow the footage down and it was weird, funny, and synced up. So that's the answer!