Perhaps you can't read. The fact that its been used for that purpose is proof that its been deemed believable enough for that purpose.UltimateOutsider wrote:Well, Birdemic is a feature film, so forgive me if that credential doesn't impress. And any film with a budget higher than Birdemic's can employ actual women for speaking parts.whyterabbyt wrote:I already got that from your comments on Vocaloid supposedly being realistic, yes. The fact remains that the first set of examples were deemed 'believable' enough for film, and this software been being used for that purpose for several years now.
If you think the Ircam thing sounds like a real woman, well... you might need to meet more women.
That's all that needs said. Like anyone who's used a lot of audio software, I'm pretty familiar with the kind of artefacts etc to listen out for, which is why I didn't say whether it sounded real to me, or not. Nice try, though.
For someone who's not so familiar, eg an 'audience' I think it's likely to be believable enough[\i].
There are many reasons why a properly-programmed Vocaloid can pass better than the real-time speech processors or TTS can, not the least of which is the fact that it employs actual speech samples of actual females (or males, depending on the voice package)
Im quite aware of how vocaloid works; im also quite aware that the use of samples is in itself insufficient to provide realism, as evinced by every vocaloid example ive ever heard. it certainly isn't up to the vast range of levels of nuanced expression in a genuine voice, something which is quite important to speech. Voice processing preserves those nuances, and the level of expression far more effectively.
And of course, feel free to gloss over how much time and effort it might take to get vocaloid to get near it.
But you're the guy who recommended Antares Throat a few posts back, so I see no point in defending it further.
Yes, I the guy who recommended a tool that will do what the OP requested; transform his male vocals into something sounding female. It's not great at it but it can be picked up cheap fairly frequently, and I think it'll probably do better than some of the previous suggestions.
But please, enlighten me how vocaloid, or any other speech synthesis, can perform that specific task, I'm dying to hear that.
