{"id":60829,"date":"2026-08-30T02:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=60829"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:38:47","slug":"choicer-voicer-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=60829","title":{"rendered":"Choicer Voicer Is Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t typically follow trends when it comes to video games on YouTube and Twitch. If friends want to play the games and they&#8217;re cheap enough I&#8217;ll play them for a bit, but not many stick. I love <em>Phasmophobia<\/em> and <em>TCG Card Shop Simulator<\/em> for instance, but something about <em>Choicer Voicer<\/em> called to me in a way most games don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a common desire amongst us nerds to become voice actors. I am one of said nerds. It&#8217;s fun to do voices and riff. I frequently do impressions of my favorite characters. I sometimes will get &#8220;stuck&#8221; using a voice of a character for an hour because it feels to good to stim with. However, I&#8217;ve never actually done anything with that energy other than annoy friends. Now, I have an outlet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Choicer Voicer<\/em> is a game on itch.io in early development by YeahMaybe where the goal of the &#8220;gameplay&#8221; is to copy quotes and noises accurately. It blew up on Twitch because of the obvious appeal. People want to watch their favorite creators do silly voices and be loud. It&#8217;s a fun watch. And, while that&#8217;s a cool passive experience, for me the fun is testing my own vocal ability.<\/p>\n<p>I started off by dubbing over Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s famous &#8220;Do it live!&#8221; screaming rant. It was a lot of fun. Recreating a meme with a tool disguised as a party game felt really good, so I tried moving onto something more substantial. I&#8217;m a massive Dragon Ball Z fan and have been my whole life. So, instead of picking something normal but with more substance like a Breaking Bad or Spongebob scene, I picked the show that would genuinely injure me for attempting it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dragon Ball Z  Kamehameha vs Galick Gun   Dubbed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w7tZhFqQMJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Clearly it&#8217;s amateur and so am I. I&#8217;m under no delusion that I knocked this out of the park. I recorded it on a budget headset and not my good mic so the audio peaks several times. I have an uneven tone in a lot of ways, especially when I start with Goku and do a very stereotypical anime voice. My voice doesn&#8217;t exactly have the gravitas of Chris Sabat or the polish of Sean Schemmel, but I was never expecting that. I got to experience a piece of a dream that has lingered since I was a kid in a way that was really fun and simple. I didn&#8217;t have to sync my own dialogue over the original audio. I just had to record lines until I was happy and click a button.<\/p>\n<p>I <strong>highly\u00a0<\/strong>recommend giving it a try. It&#8217;s a lot of fun. You have to embrace the cringe to have fun with it. If you go in expecting to love the end product, you&#8217;ll be disappointed. Nobody likes the sound of their own voice and what you&#8217;ll end up with is still your voice with a different tint. But, if you want to have some fun for a few hours screwing around with some audio clips and TV scenes, it&#8217;s a worthwhile purchase.<\/p>\n<p>I personally only paid the minimum 5 bucks for the purchase but I plan on giving more as updates roll out. <a href=\"https:\/\/yeahmaybe.itch.io\/the-choicer-voicer\">If you&#8217;re interested, here&#8217;s the link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5yakrlq6nMA\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Vegeta Screams Across Time &amp; Space - TeamFourStar (TFS)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My throat genuinely hurts. My dumb ass didn&#8217;t do any sort of vocal warmup and recorded this all while sitting in a reclined position. Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t typically follow trends when it comes to video games on YouTube and Twitch. If friends want to play the games and they&#8217;re cheap enough I&#8217;ll play them for a bit, but not many stick. 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