so far the voice that has worked best for me (in terms of voice quality) is a gawr gura voice, but it's a little cartoony and I feel like if I introduced myself to people online with it they'd probably ask why I sound like a popular e-celebrity. and so far, it seems like all the quality models are of very famous people with very distinct voices (which makes sense).

it's difficult for me because my voice is naturally very low and I have a bad habit of speaking with a lot of vocal fry.

so what can I do to find quality but more generic voices? pick some real life celebrity that sounds close-ish enough to me but is also popular enough to have had a quality model made of her?

does anyone have some resources or a list of quality generic models that actually sound good?

I learned about a new voice changer that might interest others that I think sounds good. It's w-okada's voice changer, you can find it here: https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer/blob/master/README_en.md

Here are some voice clips of me using it (keep in mind the voices that come with it are not english voices and so have an accent and don't sound great in english):

Voice #1: https://on.soundcloud.com/a6SSp

Voice #4: https://on.soundcloud.com/xo3Fp

My un-converted voice: https://on.soundcloud.com/mbywD

I found a good video of someone showcasing the app and explaining how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhjg2JwdPI

There's a discord where people share voices they've made that are compatible with w-okada's voice changer (go to the voice-models channel): https://discord.gg/aihub

Finding a voice that was made in the language you plan to speak in will result in better quality and pronunciation. So use an english-speaking voice for english, for example

But be careful because the files people share in the ai hub discord above could contain malware when run in the voice changer

If you're having trouble finding the download, you want to find the part that looks like this, and select the one for your operating system. There's two windows versions, if the first one doesn't work for you, try the second one. Also, if it doesn't let you download because too many people are accessing it, try the "hugging_face" link directly below the "normal" link that I circled and download it from there instead

(the "normal" link was renamed to "google" but it's the same thing just called differently now)

After you download it and unzip it, find and run the start_http.bat file (or startHttp.command if you're on mac) It will start downloading and installing everything it needs to run and then it should start

If you can't even get the app to start properly, try downloading a previous version from the list of downloads

If you see a screen like this, then select RVC

Things I learned that you might want to know to use the app:

As with most other ai-powered voice changers, you'll need a computer with a decent gpu for it to run. I'm not an expert but probably something like a GTX 1060 would be the minimum you'd need

It's very important to adjust the tune slider in the app depending on the voice, this will change the pitch of your voice to the ai so it does a good job of matching the voice you choose. So generally for male to female increase the pitch slider, and for female to male lower the pitch slider until you find an amount that sounds good. For Voice #1 that I recorded above I used a tune of 6, and for Voice #4 I used a tune of 12

Increase the "chunk" and "extra" setting for better conversion quality, but at a cost of increased latency. I used a chunk of 512 and an extra of 32768 for the voice clips I recorded above

Some of the voices that you'll find in the discord I linked above will be worse quality than others because some of them were created with lower resources, so keep in mind that some voices people share could sound much much better or much much worse than others

Many buttons and settings in the app take time for it to process, so sometimes there will be a delay after changing a setting or switching a voice before it'll do it, don't worry that's normal

I changed the audio from client to server at the bottom of the app. I had problems on client mode