Old man voice generator: grandpa, wizard and elder voices
A fairy tale told by a grandfather, a wise wizard’s advice, an old captain’s sea story, a grumpy grandpa in a sketch: an old voice gives the text weight and warmth. An old man voice generator puts your text into such a voice in seconds.
The SuperClonica catalog has wise elder, wizard and grandparent character voices for Supertonic 3. This guide shows which voices sound old, how to write like an old storyteller, how to voice many lines offline, and how to keep a real grandparent’s voice.
Old voices in the catalog
These are character voices. The engine has no age setting and adds no trembling or creak: a voice sounds as old as its reference recording, so pick the voice first.
- Keeper of the Light: a kind old wizard, mid-low, with expressive emphasis. Lessons and legends.
- Saruman: a deep, commanding old wizard, recorded in English.
- Elder Titan: an old mentor’s story, low and restrained.
- Kunkka: a captain who speaks slowly and thoroughly, for an old sailor’s sea tales.
- Zeus: low and unhurried, for a deity’s proclamations and myths.
- Chancellor Palpatine and Rick Sanchez: two voices recorded in English, one calm and low, the other highish.
- Snapfire: a granny with character, closer to low, steady, no fuss.
Voice an old man’s line free online
On the page of any voice, type a phrase of 30 to 100 characters, choose the language and press Voice it. In a few seconds you can listen and download the recording for a video, an audiobook sample or a game. No account is needed.
Write like an old storyteller
Directions in brackets such as (sighs) are not acted out: show the sigh with an ellipsis or with words.
- Long sentences with commas give an unhurried storyteller’s rhythm.
- Ellipses for a pause of remembering: “Ah... those were the days.”
- Addresses and old-fashioned phrases: “my boy”, “in my day”, “mark my words”.
- Questions back to the listener: “And do you know what happened next?”
Many lines offline
For a whole fairy tale, a game’s mentor character or a series of sketches, buy the voice once, download its file and install the free SuperClonica engine: python -m pip install superclonica-cpu. Then voice a line with one command: superclonica --text "Sit down, my boy, and listen to an old story." --voice keeper-of-the-light.json --lang en --output story.wav. It runs offline on an ordinary processor, with no character limit.
A real grandparent’s voice
The warmest old voice is often your own family’s. With their consent, record a grandparent reading a clean phrase of 5 to 10 seconds, create a voice in the studio and train it on a computer with an NVIDIA graphics card; training on your own hardware is free. Without a suitable card, order the voice on the exchange from an author who trains it. Then the family can hear new bedtime stories in that voice, on any computer and offline.