most recent 30 from http://socialsounddesign.com 2013-05-24T08:22:57Z http://socialsounddesign.com/feeds/question/2047 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/2047/creating-insect-like-voices-for-talking-flies Joey 2010-07-18T11:45:51Z 2012-02-24T13:11:04Z

<p>I've been asked by a friend to help create some convincing and comical voices for talking flies in a stop motion short.</p> <p>After thinking about how to do this the best I could come up with was to pitch up normal speech a few semitones and then put a vocoder on the track channeling an external recording of flies buzzing about. But this isn't exactly giving me the desired result. </p> <p>Does anyone have suggestions of how to make convincing insect voices?</p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/2047/creating-insect-like-voices-for-talking-flies/2048#2048 Glenn X. Govan 2010-07-18T13:04:24Z 2010-07-18T13:04:24Z

<p>Hi, I recently did some sound work for a video game that had a massive beetle that talked. I vocoded the voice with dolphine clicks that I either sped up or slowed down, depending on the lines. Angry was for instance sped up while crying was slowed down and then vocoded on the voice. I also ended up vocoding white noise to the lines. In the end I had the wet and the dry version and mixed them together, making sure it was audible of what he said but still had the insect-like voice.</p> <p>Hope it helps! </p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/2047/creating-insect-like-voices-for-talking-flies/2053#2053 NoiseJockey 2010-07-18T17:08:56Z 2010-07-18T17:55:00Z

<p>It might be neat to take a clip of a buzzing bee or fly and either have it gated/sidechained, or convolved, with the spoken lines such that only where a spoken line is sibilant, the buzz works itself into the mix. Kind of a fancier, post-production approach to the sibilant, hissing speech of the snake in the Jungle Book. </p> <p>All that said, I think the success of any technique will be based on the original voicing of the character. If the talent is encouraged to think about speaking like a fly, that may give a richer starting point, but increasingly annimated film directors prefer realistic, human line delivery (compare the ladybug in Toy Story to Mickey Mouse, for example). </p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/2047/creating-insect-like-voices-for-talking-flies/2058#2058 Justin Huss 2010-07-18T17:59:37Z 2010-07-18T18:04:45Z

<p>Kazoos sound like flies. So I'd try to pitch and side-chain that...</p> <p>[youtube]oau9gtG5Om8[/youtube]</p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/2047/creating-insect-like-voices-for-talking-flies/2070#2070 Haydn Payne 2010-07-19T08:05:26Z 2010-07-19T08:05:26Z

<p>On the DVD for Star Wars episode 2 there is a behind the scenes documentary in which Ben Burtt briefly talks about creating the voice for a an insect like alien called Poggle.</p> <p>The voice he creates sounds fantastic. He used a combination of his own vocal sounds and buzzing noises made by talking through the edge of a piece of paper, which he then cut up and rearranged to make it sound less human.</p> <p>If you can get hold of the DVD its worth watching</p>