Author: James Courtier-Dutton Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] voice distorters
On 2 February 2010 22:31, Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 20:41:11 Clive Woodfine wrote:
>> On 2 February 2010 17:01, Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
>> > This has suddenly become urgent, so I am asking for help at an earlier
>> > stage than I intended. :-( And you lot seem to know everything about
>> > everything.
>> >
>> > I need to try and get a voice distorter to lower the pitch of my voice.
>> > And I need to get it in the next ten days. Moreover, I was only
>> > thinking of units or tens of pounds, not hundreds.
>>
>> I am not sure if this is what you want but I have just recorded my
>> voice using Audacity. Then gone to 'Effect/change speed'. A dialog
>> pops up where you can change the pitch.
>
> Thanks, Clive, for the help. But I ought to have made it clearer why I wanted
> it. I am going to visit a 90+ year old cousin in Budapest. I was expecting
> to go in May and now shall probably have to go the week after next. She is
> deaf and cannot hear me. I know from experience that if I can lower the
> pitch of my voice, deaf people can hear me. My late uncle could only hear me
> when I had laryngitis!! So it has to be hardware and software sadly will not
> do. Tho' I might use Audacity to record some tapes for her!!
>
> I would also like to be able to ring her up. But that doesn't have to be in
> ten days time.
>
> Lisi
>
If they have a hearing aid, you could just use a microphone that
outputs via the hearing aid inductive loop.
I don't think it would need any fancy signal processing, so it should be cheap.
