Voice FX
Posted 11/13/2008 at 1:02pm
| by Markkus Rovito

Voice FX includes 15 selectable background images. Oh boy!
Hey, we've all blown a buck or more on cheap thrills, and Voice FX doesn't qualify for much more than that. Its premise is simple: You record audio clips and then alter them with one of eight sound effects. You can save and name the audio files, but you can't save them with an effect applied to it. Nor can you offload the clips to a computer, which makes the app a one-trick pony (although the developer says that file-emailing is coming).
Voice FX's audio effects may have been impressive in the '80s or early '90s, but by today's standards, they just sound cheap. Any number of free audio apps for Macs or PCs include way better-sounding stuff. The eight effects include Echo and Reverse, which are the most satisfying; Helium and Deep Bass, which speed and pitch the sound up or down; and Creature, Nasal, Static, and Robot, which use different combinations of pitching and distortion to basically make a mess of the sound. Helium and Deep Bass include sliders to adjust the amount of the effect applied and sound decent. The latter four, however, use irritating, low-res distortion and often render speech unintelligible, which we doubt was the intent of the app.
Voice FX, like a carnival game, provides a fleeting moment of fun before you come to your senses.
Voice FX 1.02
COMPANY: Better Day Wireless
CONTACT: www.betterdaywireless.com
PRICE: $0.99
REQUIREMENTS: iPhone or iPod touch 2G with 2.0 software update.

Eight sounds effects to apply to recordings, two of them with adjustable levels.

Most effects are of poor quality. No file transfer for recordings. Can't save recordings with the effect applied to them.