Antares Announces Voice-Changing PC App

Voice technology company Antares Audio has announced the availability of Voice Thing, a PC application for Windows XP and Vista designed to change voices for online gaming, voice chat, VoIP, and video and podcast production. Based on technology developed for Antares pro audio voice processing applications, Voice Thing requires a microphone and works with PC applications that accept audio input. Voice thing lets users change their voice with the same voice processing technology used in Antares's professional audio tools, raise or lower their voice with pitch-shifting, change the quality and/or gender of their voice with Antares's vocal tract modeling technology, and mutate their voice to create "alternate species" voices, among other features. Antares marketing VP Marco Alpert commented, "With the increasing popularity of PC-based voice communication in online games and avatar-based social communities, as well as voice chat, VoIP and podcasting, we thought it would be great to make some of our pro-level technology available in an affordable and easy-to-use product for gamers and other casual users.