Coding4Fun Demo - How to mask your voice using the Skype Voice Changer
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Mark Heath (of NAudio fame) recently published a how-to
article for Coding4Fun that shows how he plugged into Skype's audio APIs to dynamically apply different sound effects to the audio stream to mask your voice.
To see it in action, we setup a Skype connection between me and Clint Rutkas. Clint screen captured his PC so you can see the Skype Voice Changer application, while I recorded Clint's voice with the sound effects applied.
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To see it in action, we setup a Skype connection between me and Clint Rutkas. Clint screen captured his PC so you can see the Skype Voice Changer application, while I recorded Clint's voice with the sound effects applied.
Coding is fun
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Ummmh doesn't it make much more sense to use the windows apis to do this so it works with any application intead of just skype or am I missing something here? Oh that's right when it comes to doing anything audio related with .NET the most MS can come up with is something that sends a filename to a native api to play an audio file. It's up to 3rd parties to get anything useful going with .NET.
That's exactly what Mark's NAudio library (linked to above) does, he just reused the libraries for Skype. It's designed for reuse.
I agree with you that we should have better managed audio APIs. I'll also add that we need better video APIs like managed DirectShow. That being said, if you look at the top feedback by customers, requests for audio APIs is almost non-existent. If you submit a feature request, let me know and I'll vote it up
I would like to see some good managed audio APIs (or at least 'official' wrappers for the multitude of unmanaged ones), but as Dan says, there does not seem to be a lot of interest in it at the moment. Still, the number of .NET audio related open source projects is gradually growing (check out VST.NET and livefft for two good examples on CodePlex).
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