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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 8 2014, 05:15 AM (440 Views) | |
| Neco the Nightwraith | Apr 8 2014, 05:15 AM Post #1 |
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I've been reading old, old, old, threads on the old ezboard/Yuku site this week, and I found one about atevi voices, and what Banichi might sound like, especially in the light of this Audio movie Sable is making. So here's the worlds deepest (human) voice, and now I'm off to find examples of him singing. Really really low voice... |
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| BlueCatShip | Apr 8 2014, 12:58 PM Post #2 |
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He gets into a deep bass voice, but I'm not sure that's as deep as can be. I've heard deep bass singers and it's amazing the strength of their voices. His speaking voice is actually slightly higher than I might expect for a bass singer. -- But there's not a lot of voice sample there to hear the deeper end of his range to do it justice. Shaquille O'Neal, whom you'd referenced in the atevi height thread, also sounds like a medium bass to me. I have no idea what his singing voice is like. But yes, atevi adult men would probably have considerably deeper voices overall. Some might be in the tenor range, most would be bass, and a lot would be in something below human bass range. Software filters to shift the pitch lower and adjust so it sounds both like a normal voice and yet slightly alien, are likely what Sable's people would use. Or they'll just go with deeper but normal human voices, I'd think. Also, besides the difference in pitch (deeper range), which would affect atevi women and children as well, there's another few considerations in how atevi voices would sound. You know how a parrot sounds different when mimicking a human voice? It's because they hear us differently and because their vocal organs (vocal cords, sound chambers in the throat and mouth, other organs affecting sound) are different in shape, size, placement, and so on. Atevi speech and vocal organs are likely mostly the same as ours, because there are speech sounds in common and the pictures and word descriptions we have give very humanoid appearances. However, there would be different proportions, sizes, and shapes, and perhaps a different organ or two involved in there. That results in a sound that is somehow different than our voices would produce. But similar enough we can speak and understand each other. Atevi hearing would enter into how they perceive us too, and vice versa. I know, somewhere out there in a couple of natural science documentaries, I've heard something about the sounds scientists think that, say, Neanderthals might have been able to produce. There was also at least one sample of what they think a few dinosaurs might have been able to produce through their various mouth and breathing organs. (I think this was specifically the duck billed dinosaurs with the prominent siphon or trumpet-like protrusions on the backs of their heads.) Or then there are chimpanzee and gorilla sounds, which somehow lack the control and consonants we have, but manage with ah, ee, oo, uh, ae (cat), and maybe another one or two vowels, plus a few consonants, in producing sounds. So those factors would enter into atevi voices. Just for discussion, other aliens would likely sound so radically different, we couldn't use our alphabet of speech sounds to represent what they might sound like. (How would you show, written out, what dolphins and whales sound like, or birds, for instance? Or elephants?) At the least, more alien aliens would likely have vowel and consonant sounds we'd have trouble imitating, or couldn't produce, and we'd have to use their own writing / musical system, or come up with our own, to represent how they sound. For that matter, linguists still have trouble representing some of the more exotic features of human speech, such as Bushmen's "clicks" and various other features English doesn't have or doesn't consider phonemic (distinct enough to represent separately). So -- Very interesting topic, there. I am very curious to hear what Sable's company produces. This reminds me to hook up and retest my audio / voice equipment. I did a few lines a few months back for a podcast (Starship Excelsior) and I want to be sure to satisfy myself I understand my equipment's settings before recording anything again. They were apparently happy with the work, but only used a couple of non-regulars in the most recent episode. However, I'm still on their rolls to use in the future. |
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| Xheralt | Apr 8 2014, 05:13 PM Post #3 |
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Here's a new one to consider -- Avi Kaplan (is the name a coincidence?) from Pentatonix. Jump to 1:47 if you're impatient |
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| Neco the Nightwraith | Jun 26 2014, 09:55 PM Post #4 |
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And then there's this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBz5yvD7UWM Banichi? :wub: |
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