What programs are used for voice acting. Voice acting and reading text with voice online. The best scoring software options

If you are shooting a movie, video or cartoon, it is almost always necessary to voice the characters and add other musical accompaniment. Such actions are done using special programs, the functionality of which includes the ability to record sound. In this article, we have selected several representatives of such software for you. Let's take a closer look at them.

The first on our list is presented Video editor from Movavi. This program contains many useful functions for video editing, but now we are only interested in the ability to record sound, and it is present here. There is a special button on the toolbar, clicking on which will take you to a new window, where you will need to configure several parameters.

Of course, Movavi Video The Editor is not suitable for professional stunt doubles, but it is quite enough for amateur sound recording. The user just needs to indicate the source, set the required quality and set the volume. The finished audio recording will be added to the corresponding line on the editor and it will be possible to edit it, apply effects, cut into parts and change the volume parameters. Movavi Video Editor is distributed for a fee, but a free trial is available on the developer's official website.

VirtualDub

Next we will consider another graphics editor, this will be VirtualDub. This program is distributed completely free of charge and provides a huge number of different tools and functions. It also has the ability to record sound and overlay it over video.

In addition, it is worth noting a large number of different audio settings that will definitely come in handy for many users. The recording is simple enough. You just need to click on a specific button, and the created track will be automatically added to the project.

MultiControl

If you work with frame-by-frame animation and create cartoons using this technology, then you can sound the finished project using the "MultiPult" program. Its main task is to generate animation from ready-made pictures. There are all the necessary tools for this, including recording an audio track.

However, not everything is so rosy, since there are no additional settings, the track cannot be edited, and only one audio track is added for one project. "MultiPult" is distributed free of charge and is available for download on the official website of the developer.

Ardor

Last on our list is the Ardor digital workstation. Its advantage over all previous representatives is that its purpose is focused precisely on working with sound. It contains all the necessary settings and tools to achieve great sound. In one project, you can add an unlimited number of tracks with vocals or instruments, they will be distributed to the editor, and are also available for sorting into groups, if necessary.

Before you start dubbing, it's best to import the video into your project to simplify the process itself. It will also be added to the multitrack editor on a separate line. Use additional settings and parameters to flatten the sound, make it clear, and trim it to match the video.

This article contains far from all suitable programs, because there are many video and audio editors on the market that allow you to record sound from a microphone, thereby creating voiceovers for films, clips or cartoons. We tried to select for you diversified software that would suit different user groups.

In this article, you, habr, will not find tips on which microphone is better to choose. With this question, I recommend reading the posts Microphones, microphones and microphones again. Part # 1, Microphones, Podcaster View # 2 and Microphones, 3rd Podcaster View.
Also, you will not find advices about the quality of the videos here. If you need quality, I recommend reading the good article Attempting to translate and dub a video at home.

There are situations when you really like this or that video, but you cannot show it to your friends, because they still do not know English / Spanish / German / any other language. But you know him, and at least you can make subtitles for watching a video, or maybe you even aim at dubbing voice acting, without having to spend 100 American rubles on a microphone, and even more of the same American rubles for sound processing software.
I'll show you how to subtitle or dub something that almost every home has.

So, since you're here, habrauser, let me start.
The list of devices / programs that will be needed for voice acting:

Creation of subtitles.

As I already wrote, you can use the Aegisub program to create them. On the official download page there is an opportunity to download the interface russification, but I still could not configure it. But this will not prevent you from mastering the program - everything is intuitively simple.

First of all, we need to open the video file for which we will create subtitles. We select the item "Video" in the menu, and in it "Open Video ...", and in the dialog that opens, open our file.
Once selected, it appears in the upper left pane of the window. But that is not all. If you click on "Play" now (ie enable video), then it will be silent. This is not convenient for us, so we need to add sound. This can be done through the menu item "Audio" -> "Open Audio from Video".
Thus, we get the following window:

• red - start time of the current text
• green - end time of the current text
• yellow - display text
• blue - a list of all texts, indicating the time of action

So, let's start creating subtitles. On the left, above the blue area, there are three keys. Click on the first one, "Play". As soon as we hear the text, we press pause. Usually, speech does not start from the first second of the video - first there is a splash screen, or just music. Therefore, we do not start creating subtitles from the first second.
So, we pressed pause, and we see from what second the speech begins. We indicate this time in the red field. After that, you can continue playing the video, and record the text that should be displayed in the subtitles in the yellow area. When the phrase is logically completed, indicate in the red field the time when the phrase should be hidden from the screen.
Now you can move on to the second phrase. In the blue area of ​​the screen, right-click on the current subtitle line, and select the "Insert (after)" item there. A second line appears, with the start time equal to the end time of the previous line.
We repeat entering text and adding lines until we enter all the required subtitles.
Here is a screenshot of the last project I did.

If suddenly in the process of creating a video, the time of some subtitles will overlap others, the program will highlight the "competing" lines in red, and you will need to align their display time.
In addition, the text is immediately displayed on top of the video, and you can evaluate the result of your work.
In general, the program has rich functionality, but I will not describe it - I have indicated the main points, otherwise, I hope you can figure it out.

By saving the project in the format of this program, you will not be able to connect this file to all players, and you will not be able to upload it to YouToube. To do this, the subtitles must be exported. Click in the menu "File" -> "Export Subtitles ...", a window will open in which we also press the "Export" button, and specify the file for subtitles (be sure to indicate the extension in the file name, I use subtitles in srt format, they are normally loaded on YouToube).
Perhaps this is all I can tell you about creating subtitles.

Sound creation.

• noise removal
• normalization
• volume change
• auto mute

But first things first.
First of all, you need to free the room from all extraneous friends / relatives. The first 5-10 takes will probably make you laugh with them, but then it becomes very annoying, makes it difficult to concentrate, and to record your voice normally.
Next, click on the red button on the top panel of the program - recording has begun. After that, we switch to the subtitle program, and there we also start video playback. The current subtitle line is highlighted in a yellowish color, and I always know exactly where I am in the text, what came before that and what will come next. This is very important point, believe me.
Of course, you noticed that there was a hitch between the start of the recording and the start of the video while switching between programs. This is not at all important, and in the future I will show how to get rid of this gap of emptiness.
So, two screenshots. The first one shows the position of windows on the desktop before starting recording.

And the second, shows my screen right after the start of the recording.

So far, we are not very worried about what happens in the dictaphone. Let him write slowly. If your voice sounds too quiet, don't try to change anything now. It will be possible to process the sound only after the entire sound track has been prepared, otherwise the gaps between takes will be too noticeable by ear.
So, we recorded about 30 seconds of text, and the voice began to "sink" - stutter, confuse letters and the like. You don't have to start over, you can just continue recording.
For this:

After that, in order to continue recording, we will only have to repeat the steps with the beginning of the recording. At the same time, I recommend putting the video at the beginning of the previous subtitles (in the screenshot from the 22nd second), and when the video comes to the 27th, press the red button in the recorder.
As a result, we will get several tracks for the entire length of the video clip. (there is a very useful edge button with a magnifying glass on the middle panel of the recorder, which allows you to fit the entire project into the width of the window)

However, we need to work with them as with one, so we select in the menu "Tracks" -> "Concatenate to last track".

Sound processing

So, we have a single audio track. We begin to comb her hair.
First of all, you need to normalize the sound.
"Effects" -> "Signal normalization". We leave all the parameters as they are, just click "OK".
It happens that after normalization there are "roosters", because of which the whole sound is heard quite quietly. The screenshot shows an example of such a "rooster":

To deal with such moments, you can use the tool from the menu "Effects" -> "Amplify Signal" (be sure to select this piece of audio so that the effect is applied only to it).
I entered the value "-3.8", then removed the selection and applied normalization again.
I got this picture:

As you can see on the screen (or listen if you have already recorded the sample), the sound is full of extraneous noises.
This recorder has a function just for this situation.
First, we need to create a sample of the noise, which we will remove:

• select a fragment of the track where there is no our voice (only extraneous noises)
• select in the menu "Effects" -> "Noise Removal"
• in the window that opens, press the button "Create noise model"
• remove selection
• again select in the menu "Effects" -> "Noise Removal"
• click "OK"

As a result, we get such a clean track:

Agree, now the sound is much nicer, and it looks better =)
However, there are still occasional clicks, noises (and before each phrase I also hear aspiration as I draw air into my lungs).
Getting rid of this is as easy as shelling pears. Select the fragment that you want to remove, and select in the menu "Create" -> "Silence ..." -> "OK".
For example, at the beginning I removed the keyboard sound from switching between windows and pressing the "Play" button on the video.

We save the project in the recorder, so far we have finished with it.

Getting audio track from video

If the video contains nothing but voice, and you do not want to hear the sound of the original in the background, then you can skip the next two points.
However, I consider it a sign of good tone to sound the original in the background (only if it does not completely cover my voice), and this recorder makes it very convenient to lower the volume of the original track, and return it to those places where I am silent.

I am using avitomp3 program to get mp3 file from video file. I am sure that in this part many can go their own way, the main thing is that as a result we get an audio track in an mp3 file.
Using the program is simple - click the Add button, select our file, specify the parameters of the audio file (I recommend saving immediately in a mono channel, for home video it will be quite normal), the save folder and click on the large round button with arrows at the bottom right.

Mixing two tracks

So, back to our record. In the screenshot, I took my own instead of an example. real work on dubbing. It is necessary to add to the already existing track the recording that we just extracted from the video file.
This can be done by the menu item "File" -> "Import" -> "Sound file ..."
If you remember, I asked you not to focus on the fact that the recording of your voice starts before the video starts playing?
It's time to figure it out.
Usually, seeing two tracks at once, it is possible to determine directly by eye where the lag of our track is from the video.
The top track is from the video file, the bottom track is the one that I recorded on the microphone.

On the bottom track, I have highlighted the lag time of my voice from the moment when the speech begins in the original video. At the bottom, you can see that the selection starts at the 6 seconds and 321 milliseconds position, and that chunk is 950 milliseconds.
Now we need to cut these 950 milliseconds from the beginning of the file. To do this, simply write zeros instead of 6.321, and our selection moves to the beginning of the file.
Now, to remove this segment, it is enough to apply the already familiar operation "Edit" -> "Remove Audio or Labels" -> "Delete".

The track from the video file must be moved above our audio track, and select it entirely. After that, apply "Effects" -> "Auto Mute ..."
We specify the settings as in my screenshot:

And we get these changes in the track from the video:

This is the last step in working with our soundtrack. Now you can save the project file itself (if you plan to change something in it in the future), and export these two tracks to an mp3 file.
You can export accordingly through the menu "File" -> "Export".

Replacing a track in a video file

Finally the time has come latest app on my list. We open.
Open our video file. "File" -> "Open video file…».
We indicate that we do not need to do anything with the video. We do this by choosing "Video" -> "Direct stream copy" from the menu.
And now we start working with audio tracks. Go to the menu "Streams" -> "Stream list".
Now we have one track there, from a video file. Click on the bottom right button "Disable" in order to disable it.
And add our mp3 file using the "Add" button.

If you want, you can upload it to YouToube or any other hosting. For subtitles, we specify the file with the * .srt extension, which we created at the very beginning.
I can link to my file, which I did this way. If you ignore the accent and my boring voice, I think it turned out pretty well.

Perhaps this article does not correspond to the level of the IT sphere of Habr, but I do not urge everyone to go now and record professional takes based on this article.
But I hope that this article will explain the main difficulties in recording your translations, or simply dubbing a video, and will finally allow you to do the very thing that you have been going to do for a year, but still you will not find time to study the issue.
I wish you good luck with your creativity, and if there is useful tips or comments - I'll be happy to read them in the comments.

Instructions

Collect the text you are going to overlay into one file. Adjust the formatting of the document so that no replica breaks up into fragments located on different pages... Print the prepared file and secure the sheets so that you can easily see the text while writing.

Attach the microphone to the stand or position it so that it does not touch the body during operation. Place a pop filter in front of the microphone to help neutralize plosive consonants when recording. Such a filter can be made of thick tights, in two layers stretched over any frame of a suitable size, like a small hoop.

Connect your microphone to your computer. Run Adobe program Audition and select Edit View from the Workspace list. In the window that opens with the Windows Recording Mixer option from the Options menu, select the input through which the microphone is connected and adjust the volume. Use the Ctrl + N keys to create a new file in the editor and specify the sound parameters: sampling frequency and number of channels. To start recording, click on the Record button in the Transport palette.

Record a few seconds of silence before reading the text. You use this snippet in post-processing to capture the noise profile. When you are no closer than twenty centimeters from the microphone, read the text. This is best done while standing. If you mispronounced a phrase, read it a second time. When editing, the spoiled take will be cut out.

After finishing recording, click on the Stop button of the Transport palette and save the file to HDD the Save option of the File menu.

Select the area of ​​the recording before the beginning of the text and grab the noise profile from it using the Alt + N combination. Use the Noise Reduction option in the Restoration group of the Effects menu to remove background noise from the recording. Use the Normalize option of the Amplitude group in the same menu to level the sound volume.

Listen to the resulting recording. Select and delete the damaged fragments with the Delete key. Cut the recording into separate phrases by selecting the desired fragment and applying the Cut option of the Edit menu. To paste sound into a new file, use the Paste to New option of the same menu.

In the Workspace field, switch to Video + Audio Session mode. Use the Import option of the File menu to load the movie you are dubbing into the editor. If in the Files palette only files with icons in the form of a sound wave are visible, use the Show video files button from the bottom of the palette.

Click on the file with the film-shaped icon to call context menu, and select the Insert Into Multitrack option. The original video sound will appear on one of the tracks in the editor window, and the image will be visible in the Video palette.

Place the cursor on the section where you want to start the first phrase of the voice-over, and insert the file with the desired text using the Insert Into Multitrack option into one of the audio tracks. To change the start time of the phrase, hold down right button mouse and drag the file along the track. Paste the rest of the fragments in the same way.

To combine the recorded sound with the original or background music included in the soundtrack of the movie, you will need to change the volume in some parts of the tracks. This can be done by constructing an envelope curve using key points. Place the cursor over the line at the top of the track and click on it. By moving the created point down, you get a smooth decrease in the volume on the selected track from the beginning to the inserted point.

If it turns out that the phrase is pronounced too quickly, click on the desired track and call the context menu. Selecting the Edit Source File option will return you to the editing window, where you can apply the Stretch option in the Time / Pitch group of the Effects menu to change the sound speed of the fragment.

To save the video with the new audio, return to Video + Audio mode and select the Video option in the Export group of the File menu. If you want to keep only the audio and insert it into the movie using another program, use the Audio Mixdown option.

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Here we will look at how to dub a video without using complex software and without resorting to expensive assistance from editing specialists. Stick to the given step by step instructions, it will take no more than a few minutes to complete.

Step 1. Download Windows Movie Maker.

The program is fully compatible with modern operating systems, the work does not affect the speed of the computer, it is installed in a matter of minutes. Run the utility, and click on create a new project. Next, add the video for voiceover to your work feed (below).

Step 2. Add a splash screen for the movie.

Through the "Add" tab go to the "Screensavers". The available options on the left are divided into thematic categories: animated, static, glowing. Double-click to select your favorite screensaver, through the "Edit" icon, enter new text and add clipart.

Step 3. How to dub a video at home.

Go to the "Music" tab, then click on "Voice comments" and on "Record from microphone" (default device). You can use both the built-in microphone on the laptop (enabled via Windows -> Search -> Microphone), and an external device.

• ✔ Prepare the voiceover text, print it and fix the sheets in the field of view.
• ✔ Secure the microphone to a stand so that you do not accidentally hit it during recording.
• ✔ Use special filters to improve recording quality.
• ✔ Voice acting can be diversified with funny audio fragments from the Internet.
• ✔ Apply natural effects to audio through the menu Windows Movie Maker.

Step 4. Apply effects for voiceovers.

Click on the "Volume and effects" icon, check the fade in or fade out, set the duration of the improvements, as well as the volume of the main music and comments.

Step 5. Save the video with voice acting

A video clip with voice acting is already a full-fledged mini-film. Go to the "Create" tab, select an available format, and follow the instructions of the utility to convert the file.

After the operation, how to dub a video, we recommend that you read other articles about working with Windows program Movie Maker. From them you will learn about the current secrets of creating interesting projects on any topic (wedding, birthday, travel, work, and others). The online tutorial has been designed to suit the different skill levels of users, and if you are a beginner, you can use it to become a pro.

Hello!

"Bread nourishes the body, and the book nourishes the mind" ...

Books are one of the most valuable treasures modern man... Books appeared in ancient times and were very expensive (one book could be exchanged for a herd of cows!). In the modern world, books are available to everyone! Reading them, we become more literate, our outlook and ingenuity develops. And in general, we have not yet come up with a more perfect source of knowledge for transferring to each other!

With the development of computer technology (especially in the last 10 years), it has become possible not only to read books, but also to listen to them (that is, you will be able to read them special program, male or female voice). I would like to tell you about software tools for text scoring.

Possible recording problems

Before moving on to the list of programs, I would like to dwell on a common problem and consider cases when the program cannot read the text.

The fact is that there are voice engines, they can be of different standards: SAPI 4, SAPI 5 or Microsoft Speech Platform (in most programs for text reproduction there is a choice of this tool). So, it is logical that in addition to the program for reading by voice, you need an engine (it will depend on which language you will be read in, in which voice: male or female, etc.).

Speech engines

The engines can be free and commercial (of course, best quality sound playback is provided by commercial engines).

SAPI 4. Outdated versions of tools. For modern PCs it is not recommended to use outdated versions... Better to take a closer look at SAPI 5 or Microsoft Speech Platform.

SAPI 5. Modern speech engines, there are both free and paid. Dozens of SAPI 5 speech engines (with both female and male voices) can be found on the internet.

One of the most best programs for dubbing the text. Allows your PC to read not only simple txt files, but also news, RSS, any web pages on the Internet, email etc.

In addition, it allows you to convert text to mp3 file (which you can then download to any phone or mp3 player and listen on the road, for example). Those. you can create audio books by yourself!

Voices of the IVONA program are very similar to real ones, not bad enough pronunciation, they do not stumble. By the way, the program can be useful for those who are studying a foreign language. Thanks to her, you can listen to the correct pronunciation of certain words, turns.

Supports SAPI5, plus it cooperates well with external applications (for example, Apple Itunes, Skype).

Example (entry of one of my recent articles)

Of the minuses: he reads some unfamiliar words with the wrong stress and intonation. In general, it is not bad enough to listen to, for example, a paragraph from a history book while you go to a lecture / class - even more than that!

Balabolka

An excellent program for working with books: reading, cataloging, searching for the desired one, etc. In addition to standard documents that can be read by other programs (TXT-HTML, HTML-TXT, TXT-DOC, DOC-TXT, PDB-TXT, LIT-TXT , FB2-TXT, etc.) ICE Book Reader supports .LIT, .CHM and ePub file formats.

In addition, ICE Book Reader allows not only reading, but also an excellent desktop library:

• allows you to store, process, catalog books (up to 250,000 thousand copies!);
• automatic ordering of your collection;
• quick search for a book from your "dump" (especially important if you have a lot of non-cataloged literature);
• The ICE Book Reader database engine outperforms most programs of this kind.

Also, the program allows you to read texts with a voice.

To do this, go to the program settings and configure two tabs: "Mode" (select voice reading) and "Text-to-speech mode" (select the speech engine itself).

Talker

With Sakrament Talker, you can turn your computer into a “talking” audio book! Sakrament Talker supports RTF and TXT formats, can automatically recognize the file encoding (probably, sometimes you noticed that some programs open a file with “crackers” instead of text, but this is impossible in Sakrament Talker!).

In addition, Sakrament Talker allows you to play enough large files, quickly find certain files. The voiced text can not only be listened to on a computer, but also saved to an mp3 file (which can later be copied to any player or phone and listened to away from the PC).

In general, a pretty good program that supports all popular voice engines.

That's all for today. Despite the fact that today's programs still cannot fully (100% quality) read the text so that a person cannot determine who is reading it: a program or a person ... But I think that someday programs will reach this: the power of computers grow, engines grow in volume (including more and more even the most complex turns of speech) - which means that soon enough the sound from the program will be indistinguishable from ordinary human speech ?!