Sentence Mixing

Sentence Mixing, also known as splicing is the technique of taking words and sounds said by a particular character and re-arranging them into completely different things.

Usage

Let's say you want to make someone say "I ate rocks for breakfast!"

Take the person you want to "sentence mix", then isolate the audio tracks you want to work with. In this example, our person has two lines of note:

• "I ate very fast, for I was heckin' hungry!"
• "Be careful not to break those rocks!"

For the first step, take the easy words: "I", "for", "rocks", and "ate". "Breakfast" does not appear, so we need to build it using existing words. In this case we are lucky; we can create "breakfast" with "break" and "fast" spliced together.

This works, but we can do better. While grammatically correct, usually breakfast isn't pronounced "break-fast", but "brekfist" or "brekfast". We can remedy this by taking "heckin", cutting the "-eck" sound, and splicing it with the "br-" in "break". Now we have a much more accurate sounding splice!

Finally, take all these splices and combine them together, making sure to leave room for spaces (you don't want all the words running on top of each other). That's it!

With STAMMER

STAMMER is a Python script used to mix entire videos to match a given audio track. If you have a sample video that is just of a particular person talking, then map it to the audio you want, it should create a fairly accurate recreation of that audio using your source. However - this is inherently different than regular sentence mixing, as STAMMER chops up the source based on the sound frequencies, rather than what a person is actually saying. This also means that each frame will be whatever necessary, causing a more orderly scrambled effect!