SPLOTish tool for creating mixes of different voices reading the same original text, in the style of the Mailchimp Ad for Serial.
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I made a first version specific for my own podcast series and it has been working great. But I wanted to have a version better suited for someone else to be able to do the same thing.
Here it is, and as a demo, I used the OS X voice generation "say" tool to have seven computer voices read the lines of Emily Dickinson's To Make A Prairie It Takes A Clover And One Bee.
Give it a spin at https://cogdog.github.io/voicemixer/
The site lets you generate random mixes. If there is one worth saving, it offers a downloadble configuration file which can be run command line (I hear the room emptying) to stitch them together into a single mp3.
Yes, I tried some client side code to make the mixes but failed.
That is silly yes, but until I get better documentation, maybe it's enough to get going?
This hinges on having directories for each line stored in the /audio directory as segment-1, segment-2, segment-3, ... an files inside like alan-1.mp3 in the first one and alan-2.mp3 and felix-2.mp3 in the second. There was a reason for this!
All of the configuration is done in /js/mixvoices.js it's not the most elegant. Maybe one day it will be a JSON data file and some fancy tool to generate it.
Swap in your own image for background.jpg to customize and edit index.html to write your own intro text.
- Feb 5, 2022 first commit just to hang a demo.