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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.

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.

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

~ Wizardry Dragon
"Not sea shanty again!"

But GOOD voice actors cost MONEY.

No hard feelings, Artaxerxes...

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.

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

Artaxerxes

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!"

with a thick french accent? I doubt it!

Artaxerxes

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

~ Wizardry Dragon
"Not sea shanty again!"

The French accent would rule for Fawn on SI!

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



Artaxerxes

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

Nothing is easy without work!

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

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

Artaxerxes

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?

Voice acting

~ Wizardry Dragon

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

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

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

Yes.

*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.

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*

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? =)

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

... or rather careFUL...

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

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

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*

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.

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).

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?

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

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

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.

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

Canadian beer kicks ass. 'Nuff said

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

~ Wizardry Dragon

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

ABSOLUTE NON-SENSE!