Lady Gamers Get Voice Changer

Ladies, have you ever wanted to take your sweet and smooth voices and butch them up so you sound more like man? A bit of audio cross-dressing if you will. No? Well, apparently enough women have spoken up about this issue, because now there is specialty software out there, which will allow you to cover your voice, supposedly so you don't face sexual discrimination from men while playing games online.

From the article:

Audio4Fun is launching a new piece of voice changer software that's designed to stop female gamers getting hassled by stinky old boys, snappily titled AV Voice Changer Software.

According to research conducted by the company, "The number of female online game players is not small", would you believe. In fact, "Many of them have reached the highest level of some very difficult games such as World of Warcraft (60th level), which is considered the game for men only." Bless their lacy little cotton socks.

"However, most women have a common concern about the long-lasting existence of "male chauvinism" in the world of online games. In considering this point, Voice Changer Software proves very helpful to solve the problem."

The software comes with presets which turn lady voices into big deep Blessed-esque ones. You can also create your own new voice by mucking about with pitch and timbre settings, and other features include advanced tune and noise reduction.

Read the full article over at Eurogamer.net

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