Making Siege Equipment & TPR Troops Talk

[Litude]

In TSK, the voices are in WAV (better quality). TPR uses MP2 at some 48kbps or something which is very low quality.
@Lewin: The new download link is broken.

[Lewin]

In TSK, the voices are in WAV (better quality). TPR uses MP2 at some 48kbps or something which is very low quality.

Yeah, it can be hard to pick the differance but listen closely and TSK will sound better.

@Lewin: The new download link is broken.

Thanks, fixed now.
@Litude: Do you have an opinion on the new voice?
Lewin.

[Lewin]

Hi Everyone,
We've done the vagabond!! It's my younger brothers voice, so that's why it's a bit higher than the others. I don't think that's a problem though, kind of suits him.
I think it turned out better than the rouges voice. It's more consistent.

Link is on the first page of this thread.

Please give me feedback.
Lewin.

[Litude]

Note: You don't necessarily have to follow my suggestions, just throwing some random ideas around.

Rogue
ATTACK0 - Perfect
ATTACK1 - Good
ATTACK2 - Perfect
BATTLE0 ? There's something not completely right here
BATTLE1 - Great
BATTLE2 - Nothing wrong per se, but maybe a more commanding tone?
DEATH0 - Quite good
DEATH1 - Quite good
DEATH2 - Quite good, perhaps too short?
EAT0 - Good
EAT1 - Good
EAT2 - Good
FORMAT0 - Good
FORMAT1 - Good
FORMAT2 - Good
HALT0 - The voice should be more commanding
HALT1 - Same deal here
HALT2 - And here
HALVE0 - Hmm... There's a bit of boreness in the voice maybe? (More commanding?)
HALVE1 - Same
HALVE2 - Same
JOIN0 - Good
JOIN1 - Good
JOIN2 - Good
LEFT0 - Good
LEFT1 - Good
LEFT2 - The voice uses some weird tone
RIGHT0 - Sounds bored
RIGHT1 - Good
RIGHT2 - Good
SELECT0 - Perfect!
SELECT1 - Perfect!
SELECT2 - Perfect!
SEND0 - Perfect!
SEND1 - Perfect!
SEND2 - Perfect!
SEND3 - Perfect
Oh and I think there should be one more select and maybe one more send sound as those are heard very often.

Vagabond
I just think the voice needs to be deeper.

[The Dark Lord]

Vagabond:

DEATH3: If I didn't know it was a human voice, I might not have been able to guess it. Sounds quite strange!
HALT0: What does he say?
HALVE0: A bit bored, indeed.
JOIN1: Doesn't sound like it is commanded.

Your family is good at doing SEND and SELECT commands. ^^

But still, he sounds fairly young.

[Lewin]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Here's what I'm going to do:
- Rouge: I will take on all of Litude suggestions, and redo the ones that he says to. I also might redo some of the "Quite Good" or just Good ones.

- Vagabond: Will need to be done from scratch with an older person. (who has a deeper voice) Shame, that's 3+ hours of hard work gone, but that's life for you.

I'll let you know once I have another update.
Lewin.

[Lewin]

Ok, 0.3.1 has been released. It fixes all the problems Litude reported.
I tried to find the voice I used for the selects and sends which everybody seems to think are the best. I'm not sure if it's any better, and it might just sound younger.

So Litude could you please let me know if you think I've made them better and tell me which ones will need redoing again.

Comments:
BATTLE0&2 - A bit better I think.
HALT1 - Too grumpy?
HALT2 - A bit abrupt?
HALVE0-2 Certainly less board now, but are they better?
LEFT2 - Defiantly needed changing. Is it too sing-songy now?
RIGHT0 - Sounds like I'm saying "We'll write"
SELECT4 - Too rude?

There are now 5 attacks and 5 sends.
Any others you think need more?
Lewin.

[The Knight]

@ programmers: In german version we only can use machine sounds. I couldn't find any voice acteurs.....
So I need infos how the folder roots to voice files will be changed in SR3.

EDIT: Selecting sound of ballista is terrible! Please can you change it

[Lewin]

@ programmers: In german version we only can use machine sounds. I couldn't find any voice acteurs.....

That's a shame. I thought of doing them myself (I can speak a bit of German, someone could tell me what to say) but I decided that it wouldn't sound good, would it?

So I need infos how the folder roots to voice files will be changed in SR3.

May I ask why? You're not going to be changing anything are you?
As far as I know the way beta 6 is shall be final. Look at what the folders are called there if you want to know.

EDIT: Selecting sound of ballista is terrible! Please can you change it

Thanks for the feedback, I'll redo it at some point.
Are there any others that you think are terrible? (or need redoing?)

Had enough of voices for the moment. I'm going to keep working on the rouge (and siege) as people give feedback but I think I'll wait a while before attempting a new voice.
Lewin.

[The Knight]

@ programmers: In german version we only can use machine sounds. I couldn't find any voice acteurs.....

That's a shame. I thought of doing them myself (I can speak a bit of German, someone could tell me what to say) but I decided that it wouldn't sound good, would it?

So I need infos how the folder roots to voice files will be changed in SR3.

May I ask why? You're not going to be changing anything are you?
As far as I know the way beta 6 is shall be final. Look at what the folders are called there if you want to know.

No, I wouldn't, german TPR voices are good.

The new voices have new folders! But in german version there are no new voices, we use the old one, but your exe file includes new voices. So, what must I do in final SR3 to use the old voices?

[Lewin]

The new voices have new folders! But in german version there are no new voices, we use the old one, but your exe file includes new voices. So, what must I do in final SR3 to use the old voices?

Litude is smarter than you think
Only the English release will have the new voices. The German release will contain the original German TPR voices in those new folders. (in fact I think they are duplicated in the BAT file)

So you won't need to change anything. The German release will use the normal pre-SR3 voices for everything except the siege equipment.
Happy now?
Lewin.

[Danjb]

I haven't actually heard the new voices yet, but good work anyways Lewin That was some fast work.

[The Knight]

Soooooooooo, now, i checked my sound options and something and make tests wie TSK and TPR voices. And yes, you are right, the TSk voices sounds a little bit better than TPR. So, is there a little trick to rename all snd files into wav? We should use TSK voices in TPR.

[kuba11100]

Yes, it can be done very easily with a batch file. A simple command:
ren *.wav *.snd

Of course you have to copy the TSK sounds first.

[The Knight]

thx!