It carries less emotion and conversational intonation than it would otherwise, but then, getting voice actors to use the right conversational intonation and flow is also not exactly easy unless you're working with someone who does this for a living. They typically charge a lot of money per hour.
In my experience, it affects the impact of the subs, but not my very much. The reason apparently being that the subconscious is absolutely literal. Literality is emotionless. That's not to say we don't have emotionally connected or capable subconscious minds, because if anything they tend to be more emotional than our conscious minds. But the literality allows it to act on the instructions regardless.
If I were to record my sub audio in a human voice, I would need at least two voice actors to do it. Presuming I did the male voice myself, I would have to pay at least one other person. Then I would have to clean up and edit the resulting audio, which must be produced in discreet chunks, and put it together again. The result is better, but the better comes at a high price in time and extra cost. It's always the last 5 or 10% that's most expensive.
I had in mind to put out a line of products based on a human voice, but there is a lot of major work to be done before I will have the time. As it is, producing just one of these major programs costs me weeks and sometimes more than a month of time. If I was to record the audio for the WM 2.0 program in my own voice, presuming I only used a male voice, it would multiply the production time by about 1.5 to 2 times and drastically increase price. Once you do get into human voices, the intonation, inflection, timbre and presence of the voice and what is being said must be precise in what it is communicating. Just recording a statement isn't going to give better results than what I already do; to get that last 5 or 10%, you need to have the vocals perfect.)
I do have tentative plans to hire voice actors for a line of programs based on human voices at some time in the future, but that is going to be very expensive even compared to what we already charge. I want to get the base catalog up and all converted to 4G/5G where appropriate before I worry about re-doing things and making them much more expensive for a 5 or 10% improvement.
It's a little like Canon's L lenses versus their mid-range lenses. There's not much difference, and a lot of non-professionals laugh at those of us who spend $1,200 and up on a single lens, when they can buy a lens that is 90-95% identical for half that price or less by stepping down one level. I'd love to hire a crew to do the voice work and post processing, but that would be giving access to my trade secrets, and I can't do that right now. I also can't record myself as a female voice, and I can't spend more time than I do working on each title when there is so much work to be done. Factor in that the price jump would probably not do well sales wise, and you have an all around bad idea - at least for right now. Later, when the catalog is built out and the 3G titles are in 4G and we have some other stuff in 5G... sure, then I can spare the time to put out subs that give you that final 5 or 10%. But considering that my subs already blow the competition away, we're talking 5-10% of what is possible, not what is necessary to get the job done.
In my experience, it affects the impact of the subs, but not my very much. The reason apparently being that the subconscious is absolutely literal. Literality is emotionless. That's not to say we don't have emotionally connected or capable subconscious minds, because if anything they tend to be more emotional than our conscious minds. But the literality allows it to act on the instructions regardless.
If I were to record my sub audio in a human voice, I would need at least two voice actors to do it. Presuming I did the male voice myself, I would have to pay at least one other person. Then I would have to clean up and edit the resulting audio, which must be produced in discreet chunks, and put it together again. The result is better, but the better comes at a high price in time and extra cost. It's always the last 5 or 10% that's most expensive.
I had in mind to put out a line of products based on a human voice, but there is a lot of major work to be done before I will have the time. As it is, producing just one of these major programs costs me weeks and sometimes more than a month of time. If I was to record the audio for the WM 2.0 program in my own voice, presuming I only used a male voice, it would multiply the production time by about 1.5 to 2 times and drastically increase price. Once you do get into human voices, the intonation, inflection, timbre and presence of the voice and what is being said must be precise in what it is communicating. Just recording a statement isn't going to give better results than what I already do; to get that last 5 or 10%, you need to have the vocals perfect.)
I do have tentative plans to hire voice actors for a line of programs based on human voices at some time in the future, but that is going to be very expensive even compared to what we already charge. I want to get the base catalog up and all converted to 4G/5G where appropriate before I worry about re-doing things and making them much more expensive for a 5 or 10% improvement.
It's a little like Canon's L lenses versus their mid-range lenses. There's not much difference, and a lot of non-professionals laugh at those of us who spend $1,200 and up on a single lens, when they can buy a lens that is 90-95% identical for half that price or less by stepping down one level. I'd love to hire a crew to do the voice work and post processing, but that would be giving access to my trade secrets, and I can't do that right now. I also can't record myself as a female voice, and I can't spend more time than I do working on each title when there is so much work to be done. Factor in that the price jump would probably not do well sales wise, and you have an all around bad idea - at least for right now. Later, when the catalog is built out and the 3G titles are in 4G and we have some other stuff in 5G... sure, then I can spare the time to put out subs that give you that final 5 or 10%. But considering that my subs already blow the competition away, we're talking 5-10% of what is possible, not what is necessary to get the job done.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
