E-Learning Voiceover and Narration

Your mileage may vary but this could do the trick: http://screamingbee.com/Product/MorphVOX.aspx

There are a few examples down the page. Another approach is to grab someone to narrate those bits or use something like http://narratorfiles.com as an inexpensive alternative if you don't have the budget for pro narration (always a good first choice if you can swing it).

Try Audacity...you can make subtle changes to the pitch, speed, and bass.  It's free and there are several how-to videos on YouTube.

I bet there are others in the same boat from time to time. Why not team up with others and trade out voice recordings when needed. I would be interested in setting up a trading partnership. Here is a link to a project that has the voice in already (though not anything else yet since other projects had to be pushed in front of it). It can help you to see if our voices are already to similar to be useful for a trade. http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.org/vhsgfiles/Welcome/Welcome/

If you are interested, contact me at teacher.tammy.moore@gmail.com. :0)

Hi there, I have a few training courses in which I have an employee and boss having a conversation.  I simply got 2 people I know with great voices to do read the script.  They happened to be my neighbors and I took them out for dinner as a thank you!  It needed to sound real so the fact that they weren't professional voice actors was fine and they did great.  

Agree 100% with using Audacity. One of the best open source apps ever. Try changes to your voice using the Effects menu for Pitch, Speed, Tempo. In addition try on some more severe effects in small doses such as Reverb and WahWah. Audacity will preserve the quality of your original recording, something that may not happen with online voice changer apps.

Yep, Audacity is a life saver.  Because diversity is a big deal, I need ethnic voices and in a couple cases robot voices. By tweaking pitch and tempo I could be a deep voiced black man, Asian woman and Robot.  I've found Adobe's Audition to have better noise reduction, though.

Thank you everyone!   You have all provided helpful suggestions! 

If you're looking to add easy, and relatively well-priced, variety to your narration then I recommend Neospeech. It's an online computer-generated text-to-speech service with multiple languages and accents available. 

And no, they don't all sound like a robot.

It's not necessarily as good as a real Voice over actor as the words have been recorded individually, so the tone can sometimes be a bit off. But it's worth a look, especially since it generates immediately and could save a one man show some time!