Oxygen Voice Journal

Oxygen is a voice journal and audio analysis toolkit for people who want to change the way their voice comes across. Or rather, it will be. This is still in very early development. For now, it's a command line version of the Voice Memos app on Apple platforms.

You can watch me code this at https://www.youtube.com/c/JocelynStericker

Motivation

Like many others, I couldn't stand my voice, but it's not until fairly recently that I learned just how flexible our vocal system is and took advantage of that. With the risk of being a little bold, with enough training, it's possible for most people to develop their voice to take on the character of another voice they like. The main limitation is that it can be physically impossible to develop a darker, more boomy voice than your vocal tract supports, but otherwise, whatever traits you wish your voice had, you can probably build them!

Voice training feels a bit like a game. The "core loop" is recording a sample, analyzing it, both with my ear and with software, trying to change some aspect of it, and then repeating. Progress is slow, so it's also important to be able to look back weeks or months to see improvement and stay motivated. Software can help visualize or measure the aspects we need to work on, but my current setup, without that software, is a bit of a Rube Goldberg machine, and I hope I can make training more accessible, organized, and addicting.

Building

This project uses Rust. Once Rust is installed, you can build and run oxygen with cargo:

cargo run

Using

Oxygen will store clips in the "oxygen.sqlite" file in the current working directory.

Oxygen supports the following commands:

cargo run -- record [name]
  Record an audio clip using the default input device until ctrl+c is pressed.
  If name is not specified, the current date and time will be used.

cargo run -- list
  List all clips

cargo run -- record [name]

cargo run -- play name
  Play the clip with the given name

cargo run -- delete name
  Delete the clip with the given name

Contributing

Bug fixes are very welcome! I do have a rough roadmap planned for this project, and am uploading development recordings, so reach out (e.g., in issues) before implementing any major features.