Pitched voices

What about Lois Griffin's voice? It sounds higher pitched compared to the first 3 seasons of Family Guy. Is Alex Borstein's voice sped up when voicing Lois?
 
No, I think the voice just gradually developed a higher pitch after a while. There's lots of video footage of the Family Guy actors recording, and she just sounds normal.

I think I read on his blog how in the original series, he pitched it up using analog equipment, and was happy with how it sounded, but on the new series he had to do it digitally, and wasn't happy with how it sounded, so they just left it unpitched. I can't imagine there being that much of a difference, but I guess there was enough for him to decide not to use it.
 
I like sped-up/slowed-down voices, but one thought keeps entering my mind:

It's about recording songs: IMO, there has to be alot of tests that have to be performed so that the tempo and key of the pitched voice matches the tempo and key of the instrumentation and other non-pitched vocalists. I'd imagine a sound editor speeding up or slowing down a "click track" (that the musicians use to keep in sync with) to the same degree as the character voice to find the tempo, and do the same with a reference tone to see what key the VA will have to sing in before the voice is sped up/slowed down.
 
Ugh. "Alot" is not a word.

Anyway, I know with the Chipmunks, all they have to do is sing it at half-tempo and then play it back at double speed. That keeps it in the same key as the original, but an octave higher.

Also, aren't there ways to pitch up a voice without changing the tempo?
 
Then they need to learn to do voices even if they're not that great. I rarely ever used pitched voices. The only time I used it was to give a fish a low-pitched voice to mock everyone using high-pitched voices. And it's not that using high-pitched voices is a bad thing, it's that people don't know how to edit it properly or pitch it up way too much.
 
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