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Lai Shen this voice, free tools can match a few flavors?
Playing voice-over was purely an accident. In the past, I always thought it was a professional studio, expensive equipment to do the job. Until once I cut a video, I wanted to add some lines to the role of Lai Shen, and after looking around, I found that the price of professional dubbing directly discouraged me from doing it. So, I did it myself! Tossed a small half a year, the microphone are disk out of oil, but also really feel out a little doorway, especially those who do not spend money on the baby tools, today I talk about it from the bottom of my heart.
Just to be clear, don't expect free tools to produce the results of a million tuners. Our goal is:Low-cost, listenable, and with the flavor of Ri Shannon.. There are just two points at the core:Vocal proximity + emotional holdThe tone of Ri Shen's low and steady voice with a little bit of detachment. Lai Shen's low and steady with a little detached tone, can not catch this charm, even the best equipment is useless.
Free stuff that's been tried and tested with real money.
1. Recording base: Audacity (the old man, the real one)
This thing is old enough, the interface is a retro style, the first time I opened I was almost dissuaded. But it can't help that it's free and open source with no ads, and it's full-featured! Recording dry sound is the basic operation, the key it can do a lot of fine processing. For example, Lai Shen often speak with the kind of subtle pause and gas sound, with its noise reduction and compression features, can maximize the retention of these details, will not be pressed into the sound of a dry robot. There are so many export formats that it's hard to miss, and compatibility is no match for it. The downside? It takes a bit of patience to get started, and there are a bunch of online tutorials to chew on for half an hour before you can get to work. Remember.The dry notes are recorded cleanly so that there's a play behind them.
2. Online synthesis to the rescue: TTSMaker (the straw that breaks the camel's back)
Who hasn't had a microphone strike or a noisy marketplace? That's where online text-to-speech is a lifesaver, and TTSMaker's free credits are enough for newbies to ooh and aah. Here's the kicker! Its "Chinese (Mandarin)" voice library has a few options for male voices that are on the lower end of the scale.Adjust the speed of speech by slowing down, adding pauses, and lowering the pitch a little.It can barely make up a "bass" frame, and it's okay to have a narrator or a short sentence in case of emergency. Don't expect much emotion, it's just a heartless reading machine, but it's convenient and quick, and can be operated by cell phone.
3. Voice.ai (community modeling is interesting)
This is the one that has been playing around a bit lately. Strictly speaking its core function is AI voice conversion, and the free version is good enough. The fun part of it lies in the various voice model libraries uploaded by users. I've searched for "low male voice" and "mature male voice", and some people have actually trained some similar models (of course, the copyright issue is a matter of your own judgment).real time voice changeThe function is the most practical, you speak into the microphone, headphones in real time to hear the effect after the change of voice, adjust the huge intuitive. I've tried to use it to imitate the chest resonance of Lai Shen's voice, and it takes a bit of effort to adjust the parameters, but if you do it right, you can really fool the unfamiliar passersby. Note that network latency may affect the experience, but local operation is much smoother.
4. The gospel of the cell phone party: the phone comes with a recorder + simple editing APP
Don't look down on cell phones! The recording quality of flagships is really not bad these days. Find a quiet nest, the phone with a book or bracket fixed, about a fist away from the mouth (anti-microphone), start recording! Recorded with the cell phone's own editing function or "cut screen" such free APP, cut out the waste film, add some basic reverb (choose "room" or "small hall" effect, do not open too big, otherwise KTV), can also produce a usable dry sound.The key is convenience, and inspiration can be recorded anytime you pull out your cell phone.
Don't step on the pitfalls of newbies, here's the blood and tears experience
Microphone metaphysics? A hundred dollars is enough! Don't be fooled by the parameters at the beginning. I've used a $99 lavalier mic (had to add a windproof sweater) and a $200+ USB condenser mic (had to have a simple stand to protect it from vibration), and the dry sound I recorded was perfectly adequate for playing in an amateur player's home.Quiet environments are a hundred times more important than sky-high microphones! Close the windows, avoid the refrigerator and air conditioner, or even hang a bed of thick quilts to absorb the sound, and the effect is immediate.
Emotion is the soul, imitation is the shortcut. Lai Shen's line book was turned over and he listened to the original voice over and over again! Not just listening to the words, listening to where he pauses, where he sighs, where his breath intensifies. When you dub it yourself.I don't care what it looks like, I just dislike it... Anger, coldness, occasional flashes of concern, these emotions are there, even with a normal vocal line, are better than a dry imitation of a shell vocal tone. Listen back to yourself after you record it and feel awkward just a few more times to get used to it.
Don't be greedy in the later stages, cleanliness is most important. The most common mistakes made by novices: noise reduction is pulled full (the sound becomes a microphone sound), reverb is added vigorously (transformed into a bathroom singer), and the EQ is messed up (the sound is distorted).Just record cleanly in the front and fine tune it in the back. Focus on the obvious sputtering sounds, breathing murmurs, and unify the volume a bit. All those fancy effects, play with them when the foundation is solid.
Thick skin is a must. Send the work out! Throw it out to your friends, send it out to relevant communities (be aware of the platform rules), and it's a hundred times better to get a little flack than to get high. When people say "the mood here is wrong" or "it sounds like a cold", it's golden feedback. Ri Shen's fans are very sensitive to sound, and their opinions are worth a lot of money.
In the end, free tools are bricks on the door, how far you can knock the door open depends on how much effort you are willing to put into listening, practicing and imitating. The unique charm of Li Shen's voice can't be copied by machines for the time being, but let's use a little ingenuity to match our own understanding with these non-expensive tools and have fun, isn't it good?