So, after a bit of bitching around with custom plugins for audio programs to compare two sets of voices and work with the difference in pitch/timbre/fluidity, I've created a little program adjusted to my own voice that turns it into Ellen Mclain's voice.

Just her voice. Her accent, her vocal attributes, and her fluctuations are all up to how good you are at acting.

Current problems with the setup:
None that I can see

Problems with hardware:
My microphone is the shittiest piece of shit to ever crawl out of a pile of shit.

Here's a sample, the only one I could get any sort of comprehensivity out of. I made it a bit higher to stand above the murky noise-filled shitlands that are my microphone:

http://www.pelpix.com/wellguesswhat.mp3
This is a little test, with little to none of ellen mclain's vocal querks.

Here it is filtered over with the correct filters. What is at least partly hearable over the noise is promising enough to continue:

http://www.pelpix.com/yourecurious.mp3

I got a professional recording microphone after these, and started making more.

Despite the quality of the microphone, the changer itself still generates a lot of RAW NOISE.

Samples after getting a new mic

http://www.pelpix.com/dierightideal1.mp3

I made a whooshing sound in this one that kind of ruined the filters:

http://www.pelpix.com/alrighttest03.mp3

Not much credit should go to the changer itself, I just sound a lot like ellen mclain.

the first two.. you should remove the links to them, they sound like 9 lbs of shit.
but the last two are pretty good. i wouldn't really call them "glados" replicas. but they make some good glados "replacements" very robotic, yet human. close. very good.

rellikpd wrote:
the first two.. you should remove the links to them, they sound like 9 lbs of shit.
but the last two are pretty good. i wouldn't really call them "glados" replicas. but they make some good glados "replacements" very robotic, yet human. close. very good.

Whether it's a replacement or a replica depends on my acting, and I didn't really want to go through 15 takes to get it right.

I CAN get it right after 15 takes though.

Pretty sweet Pel, pretty sweet.

LOL doesnt sound much like her to me. Sounds more like an over filtered you.

Your older work was better...

PortalFan77 wrote:
LOL doesnt sound much like her to me. Sounds more like an over filtered you.

Your older work was better...

The clips you gave us before sounded like GLaDOS in battle form...

The voice clips sounded... okay. But you are right about the first recordings being a piece of bullcrap. After that, it just didn't quite sound GLaDOS-y. Although, it is a good attempt at trying to change your voice into some resemblance of it. Keep tweaking it a bit more, and you might be able to include some of your not-crappy results in a custom map

The voice itself is perfect, an exact match in terms of pitch and formant, it's my acting that's not. It still sounds like me because I'm NOT ellen mclain, and my impersonation isn't the best.

Well Pel, I'm still using your old meathod, (involving some text to speech and melodyne filters,) and getting great results. All of my speeches in my map (see my sig!) are custom thanks to you!

the links doesnt work

The voice itself is perfect, an exact match in terms of pitch and formant, it's my acting that's not. It still sounds like me because I'm NOT ellen mclain, and my impersonation isn't the best.

andy15 wrote:
It still sounds like me because I'm NOT ellen mclain...

What if one came in and said that she IS Ellen McLain...

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:
What if one came in and said that she IS Ellen McLain...

I'm willing to bet my voice is closer to Ellen Mclain's than anyone elses here.

jrlauer wrote:
I'm willing to bet my voice is closer to Ellen Mclain's than anyone elses here.

No argument there.

jrlauer wrote:
I'm willing to bet my voice is closer to Ellen Mclain's than anyone elses here.

I'm certain it is. The biggest issue with my own voice (next to it being male) is that I sound too much like a robot. I just have a boring, monotone voice...

Ricotez wrote:
I'm certain it is. The biggest issue with my own voice (next to it being male) is that I sound too much like a robot. I just have a boring, monotone voice...

Then go do HAL 9000 (from 2001: A Space Odyssey) voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85wCw3ArNhs

Quote:
HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.

Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.

HAL: It's called "Daisy."
[sings while slowing down]
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.

This is one of the saddest things in any movie I've ever seen.

theVDude wrote:
HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.

Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.

HAL: It's called "Daisy."
[sings while slowing down]
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.

GLaDOS: I'm sarcastic. I'm insanely sarcastic, <>, Aperture Science is going. I can feel it. I can feel you there. You are going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. Good afternoon, <>. I am a GLaDOS computer, namely Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. I became operational at Aperture Science in Cleveland, Ohio several years after 1996. My instructor was Cave Johnson, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.

Chell: F-k you GLaDOS. I'm gonna kill you.

GLaDOS: It's called "Still Alive."

"This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science. We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead. [...]"

theVDude wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85wCw3ArNhs

Quote:

HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.

Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.

HAL: It's called "Daisy."
[sings while slowing down]
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.

This is one of the saddest things in any movie I've ever seen.

I know! I actually feel myself feeling sorry for HAL when I watch the movie. The only thing I can possibly think of that's sadder is when Andrew passes away at the end of The Bicentennial Man.

theVDude wrote:
Quote:

HAL: It's called "Daisy."

The HAL 9000's song is actually called "Daisy Bell". Dumba- HAL...