Change a voice to sound like an old person

Question

Hi!I'm still pretty new to Audition, so forgive me if this is a really basic thing - I have this recording of a girl that I want to make sound like a really old lady (you know, those feeble "always trembling" types? Like in cartoons and stuff - the benign old grandma or something). Until now I've just managed to make her voice change to the "chipmunk" style. Do I need a combination of pitch changes and some other effect to make the speech all "shaky"? And would I need to apply the effect on the entire thing or just on some parts (to make the shaking more realistic)? Like first apply the pitch change in the entire audio and THEN apply the shake? Thanks for reading!

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

This is much harder to achieve than you might think if you want to make it effective. Yes, you generally have to do a pitch shift downwards, but there's no consistency in how 'shaky' an older person's voice is going to be, nor how fast it should speak - and it will vary quite a lot during normal speech, so it's not something that you can apply a blanket effect to and expect to get good results, I'm afraid. You either have to put in a lot of work and experimenting, or try something like Voicemod, which supposedly takes care of a lot of things related to disguising speech - like formant retention, etc.

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