Voices

Sevaton095 · Post by **Sevaton095** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 1:54 am

Dear moderator, if it looks like offtopic then just delete it.

It will be good if Npc in Ultima 7 could speak by the
synthesizer speech programm.
If anyone will work on this heavy project, I wish him good luck.
Big Thanks to Exult from Russia for great work:Ogg music,digital sound,
different graphic filters,Exult Studio.

Sevaton095.

Post by **drcode** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:29 pm

Interesting project: Add synthesis as you suggest, and also add voice recognition using ViaVoice (free SDK from IBM for Linux).

Might be quite a bit of work, though.

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:15 pm

I can see myself now yelling at the screen for Iolo to stop singing

~ Wizardry Dragon
"Not sea shanty again!"

Skutarth · Post by **Skutarth** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:42 pm

But GOOD voice actors cost MONEY.

No hard feelings, Artaxerxes...

Sevaton095 · Post by **Sevaton095** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 7:56 pm

Dear Skurath you very right,Good voice only from real people.

Good reason of synthesizer speech:

A)You need only (maybe)6-7 mb's for downloading this plugin.
Ogg- files of voice it's too much for dowloading (100-150 megs),
and cost Real money.

Bad Reasons:

A)You do not hear real voices with real pauses,
with breathing,emotion and ect.
B)Maybe bad spelling of some words.

Post by **artaxerxes** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:23 am

er.. pardon me? What do I have to do with acting voices?

Artaxerxes

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:35 am

I think he was trying to draft you as a voice actor

Think you can do a good Iolo?

~ Wizardry Dragon
"Not sea shanty again!"

Post by **artaxerxes** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:50 am

with a thick french accent? I doubt it!

Artaxerxes

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:05 am

Can't be any worse than an old guy singing with a British accent

~ Wizardry Dragon
"Not sea shanty again!"

Skutarth · Post by **Skutarth** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:27 am

The French accent would rule for Fawn on SI!

Post by **artaxerxes** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 5:39 am

and a german one for Monitor!
and an italian one for Moonshade (they all have italian-sounding names already!)

Artaxerxes

Annorax · Post by **Annorax** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 6:40 am

This would be really sweet, but doesn't sound very easy.

Skutarth · Post by **Skutarth** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 6:12 am

Nothing is easy without work!

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:17 am

It wouldn't be too hard so much as it would be long; it would take a lot of time to implement it.

And I think an Austrian accent a la Schwarzennager (sp.?) would be better for some of the Monotorians

~ Wizardry Dragon

Post by **artaxerxes** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:36 am

no offense, but is there really a difference between austrian german and german german (!) ?

Artaxerxes

Post by **Dominus** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:01 pm

ha ha. now you've got me started.
That'S like asking if there is a difference between American English and British English; or Quebec French and France French.

In German you have the so called "Hochdeutsch" (high german) which is how German is "supposed" to sound like and in which books are written in and most stuff like TV, radio and so on is delivered.
But high german is only the native language of the germans living in the northern part of germany. All regions have their own take on german and people from the north have even problems understanding the southern germans (bavarians for example).
It's the same with Austria. High german is their official language as well, only no one there actually speaks it

The next step would be Switzerland which in parts do also speak German. Only every other German speaking has a hard time understanding them.

Nice story: last friday I spent in four German speaking countries. I was driving from Austria to Switzerland and from Vienna you have to drive through Austria (of course), a small part of Germany, Austria again, Liechtenstein and then finally Switzerland (790 km to my destination). On sunday the same way back...

hmm.... what was the topic again?

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:04 pm

Voice acting

~ Wizardry Dragon

Skutarth · Post by **Skutarth** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:07 pm

I disagree, I think it was something about small animals.

Sevaton095 · Post by **Sevaton095** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:21 am

Sorry to say but main topic about speech by programm like Tom reader,
Magic goody...

Post by **drcode** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:29 am

Topic: If you sample the beer each time you change countries, will you start hearing voices?:-)

Skutarth · Post by **Skutarth** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:46 pm

XxVenomxX · Post by **XxVenomxX** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:43 pm

*bows down to hefeweizen*

German beer is to die for. I spent 2 weeks in Germany during Easter break, visiting friends who had gone home after the first semester of this past school year. I'm not a big fan of beer, but I couldn't stop drinking this stuff anywhere we went, all the way from the south (Freiburg area) all the way to the north (Kiel). Damn good stuff.

XxVenomxX · Post by **XxVenomxX** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:50 pm

I knew I had a picture online somewhere. Here we go, hehe
http://venom.gamersgraveyard.com/Englan ... es/052.JPG

Gotta love the obscenely long addresses. *thumbs up*

SteveLord · Post by **SteveLord** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 11:00 pm

i was born in germany on US military base. (father in army at time) and i can say these things germany does the best

-castles
-chocolate
-beer
-cars
-clocks too....but who cares about those? =)

dag · Post by **dag** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 3:13 am

there are over 5,000 different types of beer in germany.
but wait -- this was before the german reunion, so this number relates
only to the western part. it should have increased since then...

you must be carefully not to become an alcoholic here

dag · Post by **dag** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 3:14 am

... or rather careFUL...

Skutarth · Post by **Skutarth** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 5:50 am

You look very tired and kinda drunk in that picture, XxVenomxX.

http://venom.gamersgraveyard.com/Englan ... es/052.JPG

Trevor_Clim (damn Log in) · Fri Jul 25, 2003 7:24 am

i was born in Munich and live there actually

When it's WIESEN-TIME (Oktoberfest), Munich becomes the Mecca for all alcoholics in the world XD

visit us in Septembre/Octobre , XxVenomxX !*G*

XxVenomxX · Post by **XxVenomxX** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 8:20 am

Heh, nope, I was wide awake and enjoying the evening

My flatmate wasn't so lucky, hehe.
http://venom.gamersgraveyard.com/Englan ... mage49.htm

I'm gonna be visiting Germany again next summer (albeit a bit more expensive seeing as I'll be going from the US instead of England), to visit my friends again. I look forward to that time, hehe. I wish I could make it out there around September and October, but it's University time for me, unfortunately

No worries though, I'll have a mini celebration at home.

Post by **Dominus** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 10:08 am

some notes on beer, chocolate and clocks:

- the swiss make better chocolate and clocks

- ever since the EU, beer and chocolate over here is not as good anymore all the laws regarding food stuff ("Reinheitsgebote" = laws on purity) are not as strict anymore and a lot more of bad stuff is allowed now in food.
For example there is now a lot more blood allowed in chocolate (the more blood the darker the chocolate looks).

Post by **drcode** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 11:48 am

Blood in chocolate?:-(

But about beer: I used to think I hated beer, but then I'd only had the commercial stuff in the US. A few days in Germany changed that, and I couldn't believe that 'lager' could taste so different (and so much better). I also got to try English beer (well, ale) a few years later, and that was also great (and they seem to treat it as a food there:-)).

Now that microbrews have become popular, you can get good beer of both types in the US. I still think the major brands (Coors, Budweiser, etc) taste like medicine. How do they make them taste so bad?

Post by **Dominus** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 12:27 pm

About the blood, I now searched google and have not yet found anything about chocolate and blood. Still searching though...
An interesting site about facts on food that no one actually needs to know is http://www.w-akten.de/dine.phtml Unfortunately in German...
And according to this site chocolate doesn't have blood as ingredient

Skutarth · Post by **Skutarth** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 4:31 pm

Off-topic rules CAN and SHOULD be ignored in the honor of beer.

dag · Post by **dag** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 8:04 pm

the german purity law from 1516 only permits 3 ingredients:
barley, hops and water.
that's why we don't have those cool "exotic" types of beer that are
available in the uk (for example) (like having spices or other weird ingredients...)

http://hbd.org/brewery/library/ReinHeit.html

you can drink a very tasty beer in belgium, too.

---

blood in chocolate?? i always thought this to be a bad joke...!

Wizardry Dragon · Post by **Wizardry Dragon** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 7:07 am

Canadian beer kicks ass. 'Nuff said

(American beer is water compared to it - Budwieser, yuck)

~ Wizardry Dragon

Trevor_Clim (damn Log in) · Sat Jul 26, 2003 10:40 am

blood in Chocolate? where did you get that crap info? ^___^

ABSOLUTE NON-SENSE!

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