
is now doing internet telephony (www.von.com). Who isnt? They have developed a set of voice morphing tools (www.voxware.com/meta.htm) and I quote: Morph-It offers an alternative. Morph-It allows multimedia developers and users to actually change, in real time, the character of encoded speech by altering resonance, pitch, timbre and other voice personality elements. With Morph-It, pitch and resonance can be altered independently. All these changes can be made and saved using a simple editor, and transformed voices can be stored as easy-to-apply VoiceFonts. Morph-It can be used for a variety of purposes: Multiple voice personalities can be created from a single voice recording. Users in "real-time" applications can disguise or alter their voices to enhance game- and role-playing. Vocal character can be easily transformed into virtually any form, whether from male to female, or from a child's to an adult's. End quote. I have not heard it work. Imagine drunken suits, in karioki bars, sounding like drunken Pavarottis, disk jockeys whose true voices are nasel whines, talking-heads and telemarketers using highly tuned voice-clones, home-alone children answering the phone as John Wayne.