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Just wondering what's the best thing to use as a robo-voice/voice synthesizer?
Looking to watermark mixes etc so just need something that I can make it sound half decent and not like a kids toy.
To give an ideas, I quite like the ones used by Simian Mobile Disco on the first track or two of their Attack Decay Sustain Release album.
You can "Robotize" your own voice by using Ableton's vocoder, just google "ABleton Vocoder" and you should get a tutorial. Otherwise you can use a variety of websites which will generate robotic voices for you however many of them cost if you want to get all the copyright issues sorted out.
You want a vocoder. Ableton has one. Electrix made some hardware ones that were really cool that you might be able to find for cheap (called the Warp Factory). Or you could buy a copy of AutoTune.
Or just google "vocoder plugin."
What about the Mouth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyr66QhrOw
Didn't a recent article use the Build-In-Ones from OS X? Or did I read that somewhere else?
Depending of your definition of kids-toys, you may want to try the ones provided by your OS, though you need a bit of tinkering with the filters and stuff to make them sound not quite as flat.
Ideally I'm looking for one where I don't have to record my own voice. I know you can get some online using computerised/pre recorded voices.
I think maybe Fruity Loops has one too that will red the text you put in, but I've a mental block with Fruity Loops and take it as nothing more than a kids toy so refuse to use it, he he :D
Something like this?
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php