I have noticed that FireRTC starts lagging and dropping in and out after being online with a scammer for a while - it’s like it’s exhausting memory and struggling to keep up. It slowly gets worse over time and at around an hour or so, it gets to the point where the interface becomes inactive and you have to shut down the browser to get it back. I’m not doing any recording, it’s a quad processor machine with tons of memory, and I try to keep other stuff closed while online with the scammers - so it seems like maybe it’s with FireRTC itself and not my computer. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just me? This is on a Linux machine BTW.
Another issue that I doubt has an answer is - has anyone successfully been able to get FireRTC to use a modified microphone input (ie: through JACK/JackRack) so they can alter their voice? I'm pretty good at doing various voices, from an old man to a red-neck southern dude - but it would be nice to use some of the available filters to give me more options.
@Otis#131438 Many scambaiters use Roland VT-4 Voice transformer. A hardware box, It also has USB connection to PC, You can insert your own Mic to this box, It has 8 voice settings plus manual mode. For manual mode there are knobs and sliders.
@drwat#131484 Wow, that Roland does look like a nice piece of equipment, but pricey! Is that what you use for your recordings? I was really hoping for a software solution though - I can pretty much do what I want using JACK and the numerous filters available for it, but just haven’t found a way for the output to be used with FireRTC.
I did look around, and most of those voice modifiers are geared towards the music industry, complete with MIDI control - which is way overkill for what I want to do. I did find a family of voice changers based around the "V8" (ie: search Amazon for 'voice changer V8') which may be a reasonable alternative - for around $30 and up. It's nothing fancy, but has the basic functions that appear to be all one would need - and the reviews are not too bad either.
Just a followup to the above - I did finally manage to get JACK/JackRack working on my machine so I can use it as a filter on my microphone. It took quite a bit of fiddling around, and I’m still learning - but I can now do pitch shifts, reverbs and other effects on my voice. Only catch is I have to use headphones as otherwise the voice of the other person on the phone gets picked up by the microphone and an echo is produced. I believe there is a way to cancel that out, but I’ll leave that for another day!