Robot Voice Download [NEW]
Roseanna Diomede
Text to Speech Robot voices are very useful for Sci-Fi audiobook voiceovers, for radio ads and to make video presentations more interesting, in combination with our 700 realistic human text to speech voices. Use a robot voice generator to quickly and easily create robotic voice text to speech audio and video files. Try our robot voice text to speech free - no registration required.
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Is it just me, or is Caldwell's robot voice (like the voice he uses for Keychain in the Trinyvale saga) INSANELY good? Every time I hear it, it brings me joy. All of the NADDPOD cast is fantastic at voices--Caldwell's Keychain is just one of my faves!
This web app allows you to generate voice audio from text - no login needed, and it's completely free! It uses your browser's built-in voice synthesis technology, and so the voices will differ depending on the browser that you're using. You can download the audio as a file, but note that the downloaded voices may be different to your browser's voices because they are downloaded from an external text-to-speech server. If you don't like the externally-downloaded voice, you can use a recording app on your device to record the "system" or "internal" sound while you're playing the generated voice audio.
Want more voices? You can download the generated audio and then use voicechanger.io to add effects to the voice. For example, you can make the voice sound more robotic, or like a giant ogre, or an evil demon. You can even use it to reverse the generated audio, randomly distort the speed of the voice throughout the audio, add a scary ghost effect, or add an "anonymous hacker" effect to it.
Note: If the list of available text-to-speech voices is small, or all the voices sound the same, then you may need to install text-to-speech voices on your device. Many operating systems (including some versions of Android, for example) only come with one voice by default, and the others need to be downloaded in your device's settings. If you don't know how to install more voices, and you can't find a tutorial online, you can try downloading the audio with the download button instead. As mentioned above, the downloaded audio uses external voices which may be different to your device's local ones.
You're free to use the generated voices for any purpose - no attribution needed. You could use this website as a free voice over generator for narrating your videos in cases where don't want to use your real voice. You can also adjust the pitch of the voice to make it sound younger/older, and you can even adjust the rate/speed of the generated speech, so you can create a fast-talking high-pitched chipmunk voice if you want to.
Note: If you have offline-compatible voices installed on your device (check your system Text-To-Speech settings), then this web app works offline! Find the "add to homescreen" or "install" button in your browser to add a shortcut to this app in your home screen. And note that if you don't have an internet connection, or if for some reason the voice audio download isn't working for you, you can also use a recording app that records your devices "internal" or "system" sound.
I also played around a bit trying to recreate the Dalek voice (yes I know, not really robots, but what a voice!). As luator noted, for a properly robotic sound you'd use some text-to-speech software, so I implemented that as well:
The say command will of course only work in OSX, but there might be other, and hopefully better solution out there. All the Apple voices have a pretty heavy american accent, it just doesn't sound right when coming from a Dalek.
The stretch option is purposely badly implemented, especially the window length of 133ms has a really good effect. Overdrive gives a lot of nice non-linear distortion. I read that in reality the Dalek voice is created by the use of a Moogerfooger ring modulator using a 30Hz carrier tone, and that's essentially what I've done with the synth sine fmod 30 option. On top of that a few moderately short echoes has been added, just to flesh it out a bit.
I want get a robot voice in to my track. What I would like to do is type some text somewhere and have the instrument say the words in a robot voice. There are plenty of apps out there that will do it. I think it's a function that's actually built in to MACOS anyway.
But, everyone is saying I should use the EVOC 20 which is a vocoder. Either way is fine with me but to be honest, the EVOC 20 doesn't sound very good. I tried plugging in my mic and playing some sounds but the syllables said are barely recognisable on most presets. Only a couple of the vintage vocoder presets actually sound anything like a voice. But when I recorded this with me saying "hello hello" in the mic, nothing was recorded to the track. I've looked at the EVOC 20 instrument help but it doesn't explain how to record a mixed mode track (i.e. midi notes from the keyboard for the pitch, and my voice from the mic). How can I record my voice with the EVOC 20 sound?
1) Create an audio track and plug your mic in. Record what you want to say. Play back the track to make sure your voice was recorded. Add a software instrument track and select the EVOC 20 Vocoder. Open up the plugin user interface and you will notice there is an input in the top right hand corner. That tells the vocoder which audio track to use. Select your audio track. Set the the drop down list below that to VOC (as opposed to SYN or ANA). Select one of the presets. I found Galactic Warriors worked well. Record some midi notes. Mute the audio channel (not the Vocoder channel), Play and you will hear the robot voice. Pity the instructions are woeful in this area.
3) Macs have inbuilt robot speech. Just bring up a terminal and type say and hit enter. After that you can enter whatever text you like and it will say it. I'm not going to give you all the parameters on how to do this but I'll give you a hint: you can give it an input file, specify the kind of robot voice you want to hear, and output it to an AIF which can easily be imported in to Logic. You can then use the EVOC 20 vocoder as mentioned above.
Every time I press a function key on my remote an annoying robot voice assistance come over my smart TV explaining what I pressed; and, as I toggle through movie selections, this same annoying female voice describes in detail what the movie is about. How can I deactivate this feature?
Regarding the Roku Express, you have probably enabled/toggled the Audio Guide (this is the first voice you are hearing explaining what you pressed/navigation/reading menus etc.) Press your *button 4 times to enable or disable this feature.
Regarding the 2nd voice discussing narration of what is occuring during movie, this is normally an Audio Description feature inherent in some channels. When you start a movie, press the *button once, and select a different Audio track. (one that does not include Audio descriptions). Now sometimes, your TV itself may have additional settings regarding Audio Descriptions, or you may have to select Stereo Only under Roku Audio Settings. Normally, just selecting a different Audio Track will work though.
When I turn on the TV through the Roku device and when I change channels I get at robot voice that announces what I am watching, what channel it is on, episode info etc. It sometimes go on for over a minute with the information. I would like to turn off that service.
I was having an issue where my AirPods made my voice sound like a broken robot when using any conferencing app such as Zoom or Teams. I tried resetting them, removing from my Mac Pro and re-adding Bluetooth, updating the OS and rebooting several times. None of these solved the issue. I finally heard from a colleague and they mentioned a possible fix was to turn down the settings in the Audio MIDI Setup.app application. Sure enough, I opened the app, turned the input setting down just a touch and the AirPods are now working perfectly.
"Airpods Pro Robot voice on Zoom, Teams, etc.: I was having an issue where my AirPods made my voice sound like a broken robot when using any conferencing app such as Zoom or Teams. [...]I finally heard from a colleague and they mentioned a possible fix was to turn down the settings in the Audio MIDI Setup.app application. Sure enough, I opened the app, turned the input setting down just a touch and the AirPods are now working perfectly."
I built a robot using Rhasspy - it was a really fun project that involved lots of ideas my kids came up with (I took it and ran with it). Started last winter and now during covid had enough time to pick it up again and get it all running.
Check the connection quality indicator in the lower right corner which looks like a WiFi symbol. If it turns yellow or red while people are talking, your connection to the server is bad and voice data is lost during transfer.
The main reason this features sets off some alarm bells in my head is that, like, man, if you thought every aspiring influencer and content creator sounded the same before, imagine what happens when they actually sound the same. The potential cascading effects of this are just mortifying when I play them out in my head. The mainstreaming of completely stilted robot voice with odd, lilting emotional tinges and quirky mispronunciations, making content creation (I absolutely despise that term) even more brainless and frictionless.
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