On 2 February 2010 22:31, Lisi <hants...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 20:41:11 Clive Woodfine wrote: >> On 2 February 2010 17:01, Lisi <hants...@googlemail.com> 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. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
