Speech Modification for Distributed Story Reading

One or more computer readable storage media embodying computer readable instructions which, when executed, implement a method comprising:

• establishing a communication connection between multiple participants to enable the participants to share an interactive reading experience in which an electronic story is shared amongst the participants;
• receiving audio data associated with a reader of the electronic story that is being shared;
• augmenting the audio data to morph a voice of the reader;
• and
• enabling the one or more remote participants to consume augmented audio data.

A computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• an augmentation effect module embodied on the one or more computer readable storage media and configured to be executed, by the one or more processors, effective to implement a method comprising:
• receiving audio data associated with a reader of an electronic story that is being shared with one or more remote participants;
• augmenting the audio data to morph a voice of the reader to sound like a character in the electronic story;
• and
• enabling the one or more remote participants to consume augmented audio data.