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You may be attempting the impossible here. The characteristics of a
baby's voice can't in my experience be replicated very well by
processing an adult voice. The differences are much more complex than
just pitch.

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froldao wrote:
> I'm trying to make a baby voice from an adult one. I've tryed these plugins:
> Ultrapitch and H-TDM Pitch Changer.

My best guess is that the voice is not only pitch-shifted but
harmonically shifted and more breathy due to shorter vocal chords and
smaller resonant chamber -- same effects as a man trying to produce a
believable female voice, but more so.

On top of that, pronunciations have to be softened and shifted,
vocabulary and grammar is reduced and has errors, rhythms are different...

What you need here is a good voice actor, I think....?

>The results are always too cartoon-like

Trivia: If I remember correctly, Daffy and Sylvester are basically the
same voice; Daffy's just a 15% increase in tape speed (and a different
set of gags, of course). Porky's also a sped-up voice. Nothing wrong
with that; I just think it's interesting to see cases where "the man of
a thousand voices" took advantage of the available technology.

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On Jun 2, 2005, froldao <useless@atxilipu.com> commented:

> I'm trying to make a baby voice from an adult one. I've tryed these plugins:
> Ultrapitch and H-TDM Pitch Changer.
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Try Pitch N' Time and also Waves' SoundShifter and UltraPitch. I suspect one
of those might do better than the tools you have.

But a baby voice is a lot more than an adult voice sped up. There's all
kinds of harmonics and timbre that you can't get out of a box. When I
recorded "baby voices" for commercials in the past, usually they'd hire a
talented female (adult) voice actor who had the ability to put her voice in
that kind of range, and then did the rest through acting.

This is one reason why Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith make a great
living doing child voices for cartoons, even though both are in their 40s'.

--MFW