Matching a Sound Wave's vocal parameters to Another Sound Wave?

My brain might just be misfiring, but I can think of the proper terminology for what I am looking to research.

Basically, I am looking to take recorded sound effects and (hopefully) match their waves to a recorded voice.

For instance: take a dog's bark and combine it with a speaking human voice, so that I create a voice that sounds somewhat like a dog speaking English.

I have a sci fi alien character that I am attempting to combine some sounds on to make that creature's voice... And before I go to town mixing and matching everything painstakingly by hand for each and every bit... I was wondering if there may be existing programs/software that could help me.

What I want is to set one sound wave as the dominant sound wave. And then add other wave files, but in a way so that their parameters match that of the dominant sound wave (The human voice).

Does anyone understand what I mean? And is there a term for this type of process? (Is it many different processes, depending on whih parameter I want to match, perhaps? What parameters need to be matched in order fit with a human's speaking voice?)

And are there programs that will do this for me and/or help me to do it?

I'm sure I've heard of Ben Burtt messing with these ideas (You can do it manually, by creating sound effects along with a voice... such as Jabba the Hutt's slimey ooze sounds in combination with the vocal audio... but I would like to take pre-existing sound effects [and types that I cannot simply create on my own] and match them to another sound after the fact), but I am not sure if there have been any digital advances on accomplishing this.
It might be prevalent (And I just don't know what to look for) or I might be on my own here, hehe.

Thank you for any help!

(And, yes, there are so many questions in this... if you can answer just one, you are being very helpful!!)

Yea, convolution. But also "morphing," tho that is switching vol between the two sounds. 

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Okay... Might be getting somewhere (Although, I just know I'll end up doing it all by hand... still, you never know what you'll find by looking around, whether it works or not, it may lead to something or other some day in the future).

So, I found a Voxendo convolution reverb and set it up to mess with very quickly... But I wasn't able to get it to do anything I wanted right away (I thought it might just be intuitive enough to do it without reading up, but it was not to be so). So, I will read up on it when I have time later.

However, a vocoder could very well be the simple answer.
The question is whether there are vocoders where I can fully customize the base sound.

Using the dog/human voice example... Can I make the dog bark the vocoder's sound and then use the human voice to make it "speak"?
(I can layer in the two sounds as well, to give it a little more definition, if need be).

I kept thinking, what I could use is a talk box setup, where the actor speaks the words through a filter that, instead of using a wah wah effect (Or the usual robotic vocoder effect, in the case of a vocoder), uses the dog barking sound.

Hmmmm


Oh, if you have any VSTs in mind, please let me know.
And thank you very much for the replies! :)

The hardware vocoders I've used take two audio inputs, but the software vocoders you see nowadays only take one audio input and generate the other internally as a drone. Not what you want. I'm really not into vocoders anymore, but my understanding is that the best of the lot is the Orange Vocoder, which purportedly allows two inputs. It's kinda pricey, about $300 IIRC, but a demo is available.

Here's a free one that lets you capture a wave to use as the carrier: Vokov Vocoder.

[went to post elsewhere and it put it here... oddly...]