Voice Pitch

I was recording some audio from a sound board into my computer and the voice at the begining started off great. But while i was recording i switched it from stereo to mono and after i finished recording i noticed that the voice was in a high pitch like when you fast forward someone's voice when they are talking. Is there anyway to fix the high pitch of the voice?

With great respect to other suggestions <G> you may want to try the following before you lay out money for another programme
1 - Click on the audio file of the vocal you want to change so that you open Sample Editor
2 - Go to Factory>Time and Pitch Machine and play around with the options there after reading the manual a bit.
If you just want to deepen( or sharpen) the vocal by a semi-tone or so then this Machine works brilliantly. I find it invaluable for correcting the odd wrong note which is slightly out of tune.. or in an instrumental solo, if someone has played a note a semi tone flat or sharp.
You just drag the box "Transposition" down or up by 100 cents and you get the half step difference. When you play the track back it sounds perfect after such a correction. More than a tone ( step) it can begin to sound weird, or more than a few notes in a row. ( Or perhaps I just dont know enough about it yet but the Time and Pitch Machine is definitely something to experiment with).
You can also play around with the timbre...

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