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GHOST VOICE

VOICE TRANSFORMATION LAB
Nothing loaded — record a few words to begin

Pitch down a fifth, vocal tract enlarged. Sounds like a much larger speaker.

FORMANT MAP F1 / F2 · vocal tract size
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TRANSFORM

CHARACTER

ADDITIONAL VOICES

One speaker. Add a voice to make it several.

NO SOURCE Processes audio you provide, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Output is a sound effect.
About Ghost Voice

Ghost Voice

Records your voice and transforms it with a phase vocoder, which is what allows pitch and vocal tract size to move independently. Lowering pitch alone gives the familiar deepening; moving the formants without touching pitch makes the speaker seem the wrong size, which is the more unsettling result.

It also offers time stretching without pitch change, whisperisation that removes voicing entirely, layering into several speakers from a single take, plus breath, space and ring modulation. Audio is processed locally and exported as a WAV.

How to use Ghost Voice

  1. Press RECORD YOUR VOICE and say a few words, or LOAD FILE to use a recording you already have.
  2. Lower or raise PITCH. On its own this deepens or lightens the voice in the familiar way.
  3. Move VOCAL TRACT independently of pitch. This changes the apparent size of the speaker, and is what makes a voice sound wrong rather than just low.
  4. Stretch TIME without changing pitch, then add CHARACTER — breath, smear, layering — and SPACE for distance and reverb. DRIVE and RING add distortion and ring modulation.
  5. Use the A/B button to compare SOURCE and RESULT, then download the transformed voice as a WAV.

Tips

  • Speak slowly and clearly when recording. Transformations exaggerate everything, including rushed words.
  • Small vocal-tract changes are more unsettling than big ones. A voice that is slightly too large or small reads as uncanny; an extreme setting reads as a cartoon.

Questions

How do I make my voice sound like a ghost?

Start by lowering the vocal tract slightly without changing pitch, add a little time stretch, then breath and space. Whispering removes the voiced tone entirely and works well for distant, breathy voices.

What is a phase vocoder?

A technique that splits sound into many narrow frequency bands over short time windows, so timing, pitch and the spectral envelope can be changed separately before the sound is rebuilt.

Is my voice uploaded anywhere?

No. Recording and processing happen in your browser and the WAV is saved directly to your device.

Does it work in real time?

No. It transforms a recording rather than a live microphone. That is what allows the higher-quality processing and the A/B comparison.

This is an instrument and a sound tool, provided for entertainment and experiment. It describes what it measures and does not identify the cause of anything it shows.

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