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superbatprime wrote:

What might be interesting (and less work than system specific which would take years and a cast of hundreds) is government specific if it is possible to make specific sound files play for specific governments, way beyond me.

So you could have a voice pack for corporate systems that is going to sound very different from the anarchy system traffic control and so on.
Feudal would be tricky... could end up being a bit monty python.

"Request denied, now go away..." /frenchaccent

{
    "[anarchy_clearance_cancelled]" = "Anarchy/clearance_cancelled.ogg";
    "[anarchy_clearance_denied]" = "Anarchy/clearance_denied.ogg";
    "[anarchy_clearance_extended]" = "Anarchy/clearance_extended.ogg";
    "[anarchy_docking_authorized]" = "Anarchy/docking_authorized.ogg";
    "[anarchy_hold_for_clearance]" = "Anarchy/hold_for_clearance.ogg";
    "[feudal_clearance_cancelled]" = "Feudal/clearance_cancelled.ogg";
    "[feudal_clearance_denied]" = "Feudal/clearance_denied.ogg";
    "[feudal_clearance_extended]" = "Feudal/clearance_extended.ogg";
    "[feudal_docking_authorized]" = "Feudal/docking_authorized.ogg";
    "[feudal_hold_for_clearance]" = "Feudal/hold_for_clearance.ogg";
// ... and so on...
}

switch (system.government) {
case 0:
  gov_name = "anarchy";
  break;
case 1:
  gov_name = "feudal";
  break;
/* And so on */
}

notifySound.sound = "[" + gov_name + "_clearance_cancelled]";

spara wrote:

What I would really like is good quality neutral HAL-like voices. So that it's the ships computer speaking, not traffic control. That way it would not be weird to hear the same voice from station to station. I'm afraid that my skills in this area are limited to what I have achieved already.

another_commander wrote:

spara wrote:

What I would really like is good quality neutral HAL-like voices. So that it's the ships computer speaking, not traffic control. That way it would not be weird to hear the same voice from station to station. I'm afraid that my skills in this area are limited to what I have achieved already.

Have you tried switching the built-in spoken messages on and setting the voice to female? Should be pretty close to what you are asking.

spara wrote:

Do you mean I could use built-in synthesis to produce speech to a file so that I can use that in this oxp? Is that possible? Overall I don't like all messages to be spoken out loud. I only want to be vocally informed about traffic control.

spara wrote:

@superbatprime: Those sounds are really cool. And your idea of different sounds for different govs is a good one. If you or someone else is able to provide sounds needed the scripting part is a piece of cake.

spara wrote:

You are right of course. I could use the built in text 2 speech. As a personal preference I don't want everything spoken out so I prefer to keep that feature off. If there was a way to turn the speech synthesis on and off from an oxp then that would be nice. Then I would defidenately use it.

another_commander wrote:

In theory, you could use the game's speech synthesis to record the output of fixed messages from the soundcard to a file and use it after converting to .ogg in your OXP, but I am not up to speed on what software might be able to do it. It should be possible though.

superbatprime wrote:

If you're cool with it though, I may still try a government specific pack (just one, a full set would ideally need 8 different people), I get dibs on Commies!

Diziet Sma wrote:

spara wrote:

You are right of course. I could use the built in text 2 speech. As a personal preference I don't want everything spoken out so I prefer to keep that feature off. If there was a way to turn the speech synthesis on and off from an oxp then that would be nice. Then I would defidenately use it.

Well, as a_c said:

another_commander wrote:

In theory, you could use the game's speech synthesis to record the output of fixed messages from the soundcard to a file and use it after converting to .ogg in your OXP, but I am not up to speed on what software might be able to do it. It should be possible though.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Which software you use to record the messages you want depends on what platform you're running Oolite on. There's no shortage of programs that could do it.. I could suggest some, but first need to know what you run.. Mac, Linux or Windows?

spara wrote:

So I went through all software that I could find from Debians repositories and in the end Festival sounds best to my ears.These voices are created with Festival and amplified & bassboosted a little with Audacity.

Svengali wrote:

Mary has some nice voices. It was a tip from PhantorGorth.

Svengali wrote:

btw: better do not bassboost them. In most cases it starts to create a pumping effect which reduces the quality.