What Free Software Ca I Use To Edit My Voice In A Video?

[Tom9348]

I am creating a course and listening to my voice I’d like it to sound more crisp/deep. What software can I use for free to upload the video to and edit the voice sound?

[barry1010]

Tom, I wouldn't recommend doing that, it could affect the nuance and won't seem natural.
I can assure you nobody watching the video will have a problem with your voice.

[Buenchico]

Use Audacity
https://www.audacityteam.org/
and the 'Change Pitch' function within it
https://crumplepop.com/how-to-change-pitch-in-audacity-in-few-steps/

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps try smoking for a while ?

[Tom9348]

Buenchico- I downloaded audacity but I don’t think it lets you upload a video on there

[Old_Geezer]

You shouldn't need to. You download the programme and do the editing on your device.

[Tom9348]

Old geezer- I have the video saved in my computer files, I downloaded audacity on my computer, then on audacity I tried to get up the saved video file but it wouldn’t let me do that

[Old_Geezer]

I'm no expert but as the name suggests, it's more for audio than video. Maybe you need to extract the audio track, edit it, then return it ?

[Buenchico]

To use Audacity with a video, you'd probably need to extract the audio first and then import the edited version back into it.

Otherwise you might like to try Shotcut, which is a superb (free) video editor that includes 'Pitch' among its many audio filters:
https://shotcut.org/

I suspect that (the equally good) OpenShot will have similar functionality too:
https://www.openshot.org/
(If it doesn't have a suitable filter, you could still use to export your audio for editing in Audacity, which you could then import back in)

[Tom9348]

Buenchico- I used to use shotcut for YouTube a few years ago, so you can alter the voice on that?

[Buenchico]

It's several years since I've used Shotcut, Tom, but the list of audio features definitely states that there's a 'pitch' filter included with it:
https://shotcut.org/features/

[Tom9348]

Buenchico- thanks! Another thing, on a section of a video I noticed that’s there’s some private information of mine on the screen and I want to blur it out, do you know how I can do this?

[Tuvok]

Audacity can take the audio direct from an mp4 file.

You could then edit it and export to a new file.

Then in your video editing software, replace the audio with the new file. You could also blur any personal info.

[Buenchico]

Another job for ShotCut!

To be able to see this video clearly, click on the 'Play' button and then on the 'Full Screen' icon at the bottom right-hand corner:

[Tom9348]

Buenchico- thanks I’ll take a look!

[Tom9348]

Buenchico- I’ve just lowered the pitch of my voice on shotcut and it sounds way better! It’s taken a bit of my accent away as well and I think it sounds more professional! Thank you so much