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I am working with audio of someone with tremors in their voice- I think they call it vocal paralysis or something. Are there software applications that break sound down into it's individual waveforms using FFT or something similar that would allow me to manipulate these tremors more than I could by automating volume changes?
Anyone know if the Adobe VoCo team has beta users in the wild?
Many thanks!
You can try Spear http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/ it deconstructs sound into sinusoidal parts. Kind of an old one but it's free and might be helpful. Also Spectral Repair in RX might be able to help.
Curious what the voice sounds like. I'm assuming you are trying to help with legibility. A person's voice is so unique and characteristic that altering it too much should be taken into consideration.
There are some general spectral (fft) editors, of which Spear (free) is one of the most powerful (even more than Izotope RX or the Sony Editor), but these should not really be necessary, if it is just a volume modification that you want to do.
That is easily doable with a lot of Wave-Editors (the choice depending on your platform, Audacity is a common cross-platform open-source solution).
A Wave-Editor would also allow you to cut and edit stutters.
Then there is specialized software to edit vocal intonation, pitch as well as vibrato and tremolo, timing and also cutting. Most comprehensive solution here imho is the Melodyne Editor by Celemony.
