Did you know that Britain’s ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher trained to lower the pitch of her voice and improve her elocution so that she would sound more authoritative? The results were successful. A researcher in Tokyo is developing a voice processing system with genetic algorithms that “evolve” a person’s recorded voice into one that is clearer and
authoritative. It doesn’t work in real-time yet, so there won’t be any Milli-Vanilli public speakers immediately, but who knows what will happen in the future. So much is faked or made-over in the media already that altering a speaking voice could be as accepted as the plasticine processing of pop music vocals.