When Stephen Colbert made his Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation joke the trending hashtag was #cancelcolbert, not #iwronglyfindthisjokeoffensivebutwouldneverseektosilenceitsauthor. Control is the agenda of the StinkyJeWs, page by page, paragraph by paragraph.

Let's say you're a writer for a videogame being developed by CompanyA, which in turn is owned by MegaCorpX. Some leaked bit of dialogue or a screenshot of an immodestly dressed character rubs the stinkies the wrong way and off they go, shrieking and howling: #megacorpxisracist, #firechaosengine; articles pop up on Kotaku and Polygon lamenting the state of misogynistic gaming culture, in which perverts and serial harassers like ChaosEngine are still allowed to dominate the industry and keep POC and female voices out in the cold. #boycottcompanya, #chaosengineisapaedophile, #megacorpxfundsrapeculture

Sure enough MegaCorpX doesn't like the negative, if ludicrously inaccurate, publicity and the word comes down the totem pole: the game's cancelled, or the plot has to be rewritten, or you're fired, tough luck. You really mean to tell me that no censorship has occurred at any stage of that process?

I shouldn't have to remind you that corporations aren't people. They're steered not by principle but by market forces. If I shove a boulder off a hill and it rolls into your house, I don't get to say "Well it's nothing to do with me, the rock could have swerved aside, it could have stopped halfway down or it could have turned around and climbed back up the hill. It was entirely its own decision to flatten your home."

What was that beep and female voice saying right before the crash? Sounded like a warning.

This sort of thing is just a function of knowing what components of vocal tone you can manipulate, how to manipulate them, and engaging in careful, recorded practice until you can routinely reproduce the correct mix. Some vocal strengthening also has to occur over time, much like a singer gradually extending his or her range. The average female voice is only an octave higher in pitch than the average male voice, i.e. a pitch which with practice can easily be reached and maintained by nearly all men. The bigger problem is that men's voices are far more resonant, i.e. rumbly and full, than women's voices. What a man would need to do to reproduce a "girl voice" would be to raise his pitch, and then partially pinch his upper throat and palate, while simultaneously keeping a relaxed throat through which breath can easily flow. If you just pinch the throat without raising pitch, you sound like a nasally drag queen. If you raise the pitch and overly pinch the throat, then you get an artificially thin voice. Merely raising the pitch would just sound like a guy whose voice didn't deepen terribly.

Finally, all of the above would just produce female tone. Much of what we identify as "female" about a voice, isn't tone, but cadence, word choice, and inflection.

Great sift, that sounded awesome.

Metallica's "Memory Remains" sounds completely badass with the Creative EAX male to female voice converter btw. ; )

>> ^renatojj:

Serious question: when you see or hear someone nom noming next to you (and you're not eating), do you guys feel this strange feeling, like a goosebump, or like your brain is being gently caressed or tickled?


http://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/

Also makeup tutorials on Youtube tend to be good for getting that sensation. (A gentle female voice explaining the actions while doing simple but careful tasks...)

>> ^mxxcon:

Why the hell is there a female voice-over???????
I watched this episode voiced by a guy and it was so much better! (felt less naggy)
If you are going to redo voice-overs then at least do it w/ a British accent, otherwise there's no point. That's like making the same item in blue and pink colors.


Blah blah fucking blah finger diarrhea. Go jerk off or something when you feel tension.

Why the hell is there a female voice-over???????
I watched this episode voiced by a guy and it was so much better! (felt less naggy)

If you are going to redo voice-overs then at least do it w/ a British accent, otherwise there's no point. That's like making the same item in blue and pink colors.

Hey, Felicia... no vids posted? No comments made? We don't have that many women here on the Sift. A new female voice would be much appreciated.

Here's a video of him live, the quality is terrible, but should prove that the female voice is actually him:

Nick Pitera - National Anthem - live

Man he's got some other videos on there where he's doing the female part.....and I still can't put the voice with the face while watching it.

He's a good singer, but his female voice is so different from his male parts of the songs I can't make any kind of link between them besides the video showing him mouthing along with the voice.

>> ^Lann:

There are two female voices. Elizabeth Fraser & Lisa Gerrard.
>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
>> ^Lann:
This is featuring Dead Can Dance.

In what capacity? I didn't hear either of their voices, was it the piano?
And what's with the hockey mask? Is this a fan made video?
Too many questions?



Not that I don't believe you but, both the voices sound like Elizabeth Fraser was multi-tracked to me. Guess my ears just ain't what they used to be.

There are two female voices. Elizabeth Fraser & Lisa Gerrard.

>> ^Opus_Moderandi:

>> ^Lann:
This is featuring Dead Can Dance.

In what capacity? I didn't hear either of their voices, was it the piano?
And what's with the hockey mask? Is this a fan made video?
Too many questions?

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I really wanted to like this but their sound is rough as guts - too much dominated by chain smoking males without a sense melody and harmony. Get some female voices in there.

>> ^ipfreely:

I stopped watching this show because of the female voice-over. It's so irritating.


In the UK it's revoiced by Tony Hirst - I found this one irritating too!

>> ^ipfreely:

I stopped watching this show because of the female voice-over. It's so irritating.


Same, couldn't stand it