Voicing the Voiceless

Well, this is the Clarisse character (she is undead, would be good for Moaning Myrtle voice, though not necessarily for Myrtle's temperament). I have left in the 'stage prompts' to get a feel for the lines. If Lady Zorn's voice doesn't suit a hissing undead, I can rewrite it accordingly.

{[The shadow whispers urgently] Help meeeeee, pleasssse help meeeee!}

{[A hissing female voice emerges from the dark form] Yessss... I am Clarissssse, help meeeee I beg youuuu!}

{Pleassssse, give it to meeeeeee!}

{I am curssssed! When I was trapped in the accident, sloooooooowly dying, I dessspaired, and cursssed the godsss with my final breath... because of thisss, St Cuthbert hasss condemned me to remain betweeeen the planessss until I can ressseive his blessssing... hissss justisssse is mersssilesss...}

{Nooooooooooo! He mussst not knoooow! It would crussssh hissss faith and grieve him worssssse to know what hasss become of meeee!!}

Urgent: {Bring meeee a blesssssing from Cuthbert, pleasssse!}

{Yesssssssss}

Frustrated: {Then ssscribe meeee a blesssssing! [The shadow grows faintly darker]}

Angry: {Heartlessss fiend! May you suffer the sssame fate sssome daaaaaaaaay... [The shadow fades away]}

{Thaaankyoooou!!! [The shadow shimmers brightly, then fades peacefully away]}

 

Here's some Black Jay dialogue to go with that:

{[The man is shaking his fist at you] Get off my land, stranger! I'll not be tolerating the likes of you!}

{[The man speaks gruffly to you] Yes, what is it?}

{[He glares at you] Help? I don't need any of your damn help!}

{You damned adventurers are all alike. You strut around like you have all the answers, like you are the only people who matter. Well, you're not! We don't want you here!}

{[He stoops, visibly shaken] I was like you once. Jay, all cocky and sure of myself. I went out seeking fame and riches, but all I got was despair. I have nothing...nothing. I'm Black Jay now.}

That should be good for starters.

Also: WAV is good. :thumbsup:

Another edit: Here's an audio sample of Sober Elmo.

 

Just for some shenanigans while we wait for Zorn . . .

 

Clarisse is a shadow - nothing like a lack of corporeal vocal chords to make you hiss

She's in a bedroom btw, nothing deserving of overly-funky environmental effects, but anything u wanna do to the voice to make it sound undead is more than welcome.

 

So here's another Elmo then . . . :bored:

 

You can change the pitch, but the question is, is that what's making him sound drunk? I think it's actually his inflection, which is unchangeable unfortunately. The best you can do is eliminate dopey words and pauses, etc., and maybe a bit of a tempo change would disguise the delivery, as we saw in the crack version.

 

Well, I seem to have come up with a very (imo) serviceable Sober Elmo. Check it out and see what you think. Lowered pitch, increased tempo. Now he talks in a typical man's register (actually sounds like a lumberjack, but wtf, he is an asskicker), which takes some of the goofyness out of him. Combine that with the elimination of idiot statements, childlike exclamations, and references to beer, and you have an Elmo sober at last.

Now, do the rest of you want him this way?

 

That sounds good Gaear, heh, who would have thought that stopping the irritating swager would lead to re-voicing Elmo to take his new found soberiety into account?