Voice device settings

The Voice device settings contain controls to let you set thresholds, specify voice parameters, and set gender for your voice, as well as save and remove voice setups.

Voice device settings A. Threshold meter B. Sound parameter

Threshold meter and Threshold slider

The Threshold meter shows a graphical representation of the audio input in the Voice device. It rises as the audio input gets louder, and registers at zero when there is no sound.

The Threshold slider lets you set a Threshold level to compensate for noise in your audio.

See Setting an audio threshold.

A. Threshold meter B. Threshold slider

When the sound level falls lower than the Threshold slider, the Voice device does not consider the signal to be speech and sets all phoneme values to zero.

Active

When Active is enabled, all phonemes and instruments added to your device are active.

Source menu

Lets you specify your audio source. You can use the Voice device with live audio input and recorded .wav files.

Channel menu

Lets you specify which channel to display when working with stereo files.

Note Channel is disabled if your audio source has only one track (mono).

Add button

Opens the Voice Parameter Selection dialog box, letting you add sound parameters to the Voice device.

See Voice Parameter Selection dialog box.

Remove button

Removes the selected sound parameter from the Voice device.

See Removing sound parameters.

Import button

Click to open a Voice setup.

See Saving and Loading a Voice device setup.

Export button

Click to save the current Voice device setup in .fbx format.

See Saving and Loading a Voice device setup.

Gender menu

Use the Gender menu to precisely analyze spoken vowels.

See Specifying gender in the Voice device.

Voice device settings A. Gender menu

Clear button

Click to remove all sound parameters from the Voice device settings.

See Removing sound parameters.

Sound parameter settings

The Voice device’s sound parameters include phonemes and various instruments that measure sound properties.

Each sound parameter has a value representation, Filter slider, Weighting value, and Active button. By adjusting values in the sound parameters, you can do the following:

Measure the value of various sound parameters
Filter noise
Control phoneme sensitivity by adjusting the phoneme’s Weighting value
Activate or disable individual sound parameters

Sound parameter A. Phoneme value representation B. Filter slider C. Weighting value D. Active option

Option	Description
Phoneme value	The phoneme values display in two forms on each sound parameter: as sliders, and as numerical values. Phoneme values display information taken from the audio input, so you cannot modify them in the Voice device.
Filter slider	Adjust the Filter sliders to smooth phoneme transitions. See Smoothing phoneme transitions.
Weighting value	The Weighting value on each sound parameter dictates the amount of emphasis each phoneme reflects in the talking model. See Refining a model’s face movements.
Active	Activates the individual sound parameter. Note When a sound parameter is disabled, you cannot change its settings.

Voice Parameter Selection dialog box

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