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Zabaware Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: lightspeed on December 03, 2008, 06:26:00 pm
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to those who can make and have made oog files i downloaded a free audacity? program made a recording of my voice saying this is a test and converted it to an oog file i draged it into the hapteck box i could hera it (the oog file but it didnt lipsinc with the hal character , what did i do wrong and if i need a different file converter whats the best "free " one to download ???
thanks i am trying to learn to do some new things with hal . p.s. thanks ted for your help on other things
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ok i figured out that you can make the oog files through the people putty by importing your wave file into people putty which automatically changed them into oog files .
my next question is what free recorder can i download that will record enough of a song for me to create a oog file . the microsoft free recorder on my pc only does about 30 ? seconds or can it be adjusted to longer times ?? its in the start up menu then programs and then entertainment and then to recorder (on my xp ) .
thanks !![:)]
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You are welcome lightspeed. For recording video and audio I use Camstudio, but looked it up and it is no longer avaiable. This might not be the right answer, but have you tryed windows movie maker? I know you can record just audio there but hav'nt tryed exporting.[:D]
OH YEA! DUH PEOPLE PUTTY will record for you and auto lipsync if you use a microphone or line in to record music that you want but sometimes the music is loud enough it gets lipsynkd to. Nige is the expert at that stuff. Jack knows a quite a lot too without having to buy the expensive PP add on. Gt40 is pretty good at it as well as Dusky and Mark knows a thing or two I'm sure, come to think of it so does Bill and a whole lot of others. Sorry to leave them out but the more I think about it the more names that come to mind on this topic.
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I have a Logitech QuickCam I bought at Radio Shack for $29.
You can buy cheaper cams but you might want to shoot videos with it sometime and this is good quality. A cam has a mic built in.
The cam plugs into any USB port.
I can talk on the cam and video myself sitting here or I can just turn on its audio record and talk to it and it makes a wave file of my talking (or singing) You can then take that wave file and run it through people putty for Lipsync.
To show you what's possible, here's a little video I shot with the cam.
http://s210.photobucket.com/albums/bb194/Dusky233/Dusky234/?action=view¤t=cat_0001.flv
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I just googled camstudio and found it. It is still free and open source and they have just audio also!
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Hi everyone!
I must say I never recorded my own voice when I was hooked to my little Haptek skits, because I don't like it, especially in English, lol. BTW I rarely use my webcam (cute movie Dusky, I remember it), because I don't like to see my face on the screen (except in Second Life, of course). Relol.[:D]
I made my dialogs with online tts demos (like http://elvis.naturalvoices.com/cgi-bin/ttsdemo-act-new/).
Then, I used Audacity (terrific freeware, total fan of it) if necessary, like for making stereo files, changing the voice or adding some other effects.
And finally put the wavs in PeoplePutty (I only purchased PP for that!) and got oggs with lipsync. I guess Nige can have much more cute results with the Haptek software he has. But, lightspeed, impossible to get lipsync with Audacity only.
About CamStudio, Ted, I have it too. Another very cool freeware.[8D]
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hello all and thanks to everyone for chipping in info , i actually did find out as i said in the second post that i figured out how to import wave files into hapteck which automatically lipsinced and changed them to oog files so that part was taken care of i really wasnt after something just to record my voice only tested making an oog file that way the first time (without people putty ) i do already have audicity the free version downloaded so will try that first if i cant get the hang of it will try the other one ted talked about that was still free !! again thanks everyone .
oh and by the way dont care a whole lot for my voice either but have made a " Lonnie and Linda you have mail !!" one time !! lol !!
i do have a free kareoke player on my pc that playes the music and the words are highlighted so you sing in time , i also have a wal mart kareoke mic and speaker that i use with it so may sometime want to do a taped kareoke song with my voice !!
but thats all going to be another story for another time !![:D]
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ok solved those problems but now a new one has arrived need some more help or suggestions . my new problem is i have music on factory cd's problem is when i tried to import it it is as a "cda" file .i tried to just change the end extension to wav found out that makes it unplayable so guess i need a free converter now or is their another way to change my cda formate songs to wav formate ??[:D], this is the last problem i am having on this then i can make a video and upload it to utube . [:D]any help would be appreciated on this new problem .
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ok i figured that out that problem actually after i sent the songs into real player that it changed them into mp3 format automatically then i right then i import them from my music file into audacity and then export it as a wave file into the hapteck sound file . once it goes into it hapteck automatically makes that wave file into a ogg file and i can use it .
now i am working on hopefully my last step i see when a song plays that the hapteck moves its mouth also to the music i am thinking maybe a person has to set the music sound a little lower than the singing or is that possible ? anyone who has used audacity program do you know if this can be done ?? i will try to figure this out too but if anyone already knows please by all means let me know my brain is getting tired already !!lol !![:D]
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Ok, I just remembered how I changed mp3 to .wav. You got that far I see. See if you can multi-track with audacity to lower volume or perhaps change tone of music or change tone on voice. People putty wouldn't lyp sync for me on the song I changed, but I was having problems with my computer and PP at the time.
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thanks ted thats what i am thinking to something to do with the voice track needing to be louder than the music to keep the lips sinced right will work on it later . thanks !![:)]
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ok guys and gals come on this time i didnt figure out the problems is their anyone who has done and knows how to solve the problem when you create an ogg file to keep the lip sincing only with the singing so the lips dont move with the music ?? i think its a program that has to do with "maybe " being able to make the music track stay quiter to be in the back ground and the voice louder so only it pics up as lipsincing ?? anybody who has done oog files and made them help would be appreciated !!
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Hey lightspeed, ask Nige. He's THE specialist.
He has that program and uses it for doing his terrific singing haptars.
I've not, so in the little skits I made, when a character stops singing (while the music continues), he's obliged to do a 180 flip, or to go out the screen, until he sings again![:D]
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Hi lightspeed,
As far as i know there is nothing that will do what you want,
except the Haptek program $100.
If you send me the wav i will see what i can do for you.
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hey nige ,is this a seperate hapteck program ?? i have the people putty program already and it will make ogg foles ok but they end up lipsincing the mouth with music too .[:)]
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Lightspeed
It seems that you and I have more in common than I thought. I also have a karaoke program that works on PC's. It is called Kara(something). On top of that I have three other karaoke machines and over 2,300 karaoke songs on CD+Gs. I intertain around the country at different times.
Bill [:)]
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hello bill819 mine on the pc is vanbosko's free kareoke is that what you have ?? i like vanbosko's you can do searches and it will list kareoke songs or midi songs or kareoke and lyrics !!
i have a lot of rock and roll ones that i like .
i sing wont say i'm the best , what is strange is that when i sing through my regular kareoke machine and mic it sounds better to me than when i record the very same thing with audacity recorder on the pc and is played back through it . dont know if i actually sound that way or its the recording software !![:)]
thats one reason after recording myself with music i hestate to play my voice with a hapteck movie !!
my regular voice and music me singing on a mic and music playing works just fine with the hapteck (think my voice is louder than the music so it lipsincs just fine !!) i have done the white lighning song but dont like how i sound after recorded on audacity software . [:(!]
i am able to actually make my voice tenor or deeper so may play around and see which i like better . [:D]
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LightSpeed
My PC Karaoke program is called Karafun and it is free. It also comes with an editor, although I have never used it.
Most karaoke machines add a little reverb or echo which can make even sad voices sound a little better. I don't think the PC stuff does that at all which may be the reason you sound different.
Almost all of my karaoke songs are from the 60's and 70's. I used to have about 500 country and western cd's but I gave them away.
I have always loved music and my memory of songs goes back longer than almost everybody here was even born. I can remember lots of songs from the 40's and a few left over from the 30's but I love the 60's most of all.
Bill
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It is a another Haptek product & it cost $100.
I have made oggs in putty & like you say aren't real good.
I then put them in this other program & fine tune them.
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i am now having problems with making my ogg files again after trying to open a wave file into people putty so it will change it over to a ogg file i keep getting an " invalad floating point error " anyone know why thats happening ??
it was working just fine before .
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An invalid error ?????
Wouldn't this mean there is no error ?
(Sorry, I couldn't help it. lol. [;)])
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dont know i think it may be just my pc running slow and then the command not going through or something as i redid it later and it worked just fine exporting the wave file from audacity into the sound file in people putty and eventually it opened the wave file and made it into an ogg file so it must have been my pc slow or something . anyway it works . i posted a link in the share video's etc. section of this forum on my first utube singing johnny cool haptar !![:D]