Voices (iTunes link, $0.99) is a rather silly and fun app that takes your voice and runs it through a series of filters. It’s hardly groundbreaking, but it’s pretty entertaining, especially when hanging around with friends.
Voices lets you record your voice and listen back to it through one of 17 different filters: Cyborg, Chipmunk, Exorcism, Dark Side, Vocoder, Cave, Guitar, Funhouse, Vinyl, Helium, Reverse, Vintage, Megaphone, Canyon, Fan, Witness, or Turtle.
In each case, you select the filter you want to try, a microphone pops up, you record your message, and hit the big, red, stop button. The app the processes the sound file (which can take anywhere from no time at all to an age), and presents you with the converted file to listen to, then save or delete. Saved files can be shared over email, Facebook, and Twitter, in case you want to send them to your friends (or pass on anonymous death threats to your enemies).
I found the selection of voices vary in how cool or useful they are. A number of them are just the audio file sped up and slowed down to various degrees (Chipmunk and Helium are both faster than normal, Witness and Turtle are both slower). Others, like Cyborg and Exorcism use vocal effects for excellent and funny results. Vocoder brings almost (but not quite) T. Pain levels of autotune to the show, another great addition.
One pet peeve is that you have to record a new sound file each time you want to try a new effect. There’s no way to use one file, and try out all the different options. Hardly a big deal, but when you’re first using it, and sampling all the choices, it would be a bit handy.
On the production side of things, Voices looks excellent. The graphics are clean and easy to see, and the app is stylistically polished. Some of the loading times drag a little, but not unexpectedly so.
Conclusion
Voices (iTunes link, $0.99) is straightforward, fun, and worth a buck of your pocket change. We give it a recommened rating.