Author Topic: Would simulated speach be a useful feature in fs2_open (Read 7192 times)

RandomTiger · **on:** June 10, 2003, 03:06:33 am

For reading briefings, ingame text, whatever when theres no voice acting for a piece of text.

I've been looking at SAPI 5.1 and I think I could easily incorperate a speach system, not the most human sounding stuff though.

RangerKarl · **Reply #1 on:** June 10, 2003, 04:10:57 am

It could be useful for some missions where you may be stranded far away from any concievable transmitter, or can't recieve briefings. Maybe if you made it sound a little like something from a futuristic Mission: Impossible.......

kasperl · **Reply #2 on:** June 10, 2003, 04:27:54 am

this soudns fantastic, since it would be lot's easier for campaigns to have at least partial voice.

KARMA · **Reply #3 on:** June 10, 2003, 04:36:34 am

really excellent idea
i want HAL 9000 on my fighter!

i think that to avoid non-human distorsions you should give it a "electric" voice, that will sound like a computerized voice that will hide those distorsions, like if you receive debriefing and maybe in game orders from an ai system
for example, in the SW conversion it will be like if you are talking with a droid
maybe -i don't know if it is possible- it could be nice to have three kind of selectable voices: male, female, droid, with the droid covering most of the messages and the other two just the few messages with other pilots or similar, messages that will usually be short and therefore not so heavily affected by non-human distorsions.

Rictor · **Reply #4 on:** June 10, 2003, 04:45:01 am

I think there was a thread about this in HLP General

http://www.rhetorical.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #5 on:** June 10, 2003, 05:19:21 am

It'd also be useful for the Vasudan translator, don't you think?

kasperl · **Reply #6 on:** June 10, 2003, 05:48:16 am

this would be nice for *****in' Betty in the cockpit.

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #7 on:** June 10, 2003, 05:49:28 am

Now THERE'S an idea!:yes:

RandomTiger · **Reply #8 on:** June 10, 2003, 06:42:01 am

OK, thats a good response.
I have the code, it turns out its damn simple.

I've tryed it in the freespace option screens and it works OK (speach doesnt argue with Dsound or anything). Just need to try it in game.

As I said the voice is not of the best simulated quality and can sometimes be tricky to understand but in general it seems like it would be better to have it than not.

I'm considering a compatibility test for my current work at some point. I could make sure the speach stuff is in there to give the people who test it a treat.

A good way to make sure you get to checkout this first would be to join the tester list.

RandomTiger · **Reply #9 on:** June 10, 2003, 06:46:44 am

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Originally posted by Rictor
I think there was a thread about this in HLP General

http://www.rhetorical.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi

Im sure its very good but I gather it will cost money.

miniDwarf · **Reply #10 on:** June 10, 2003, 09:54:57 am

two suggestions,

1) maybe you could use it for the red alert, seems the best possible place to use it

2) or maybe in TBP as some generic messages that any fighter/species could use

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #11 on:** June 10, 2003, 10:01:56 am

Would this voice thing be like the program, Speakonia?
If you're not sure what it is, I suggest you download it, as it's not very big.

Tiara · **Reply #12 on:** June 10, 2003, 10:08:08 am

http://www.scansoft.com/naturallyspeaking/

Dragon Naturally Speaking!

DNS, friggin' awesome (though expensive [$199]

). I got this thing, it rocks!

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #13 on:** June 10, 2003, 10:10:00 am

Ahh, but that's the wrong way round, surely? That's the one where you speak and it types.

Tiara · **Reply #14 on:** June 10, 2003, 10:44:26 am

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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Ahh, but that's the wrong way round, surely? That's the one where you speak and it types.

You're right, lol! It was voice recognition this one... My bad

Its still a great program

IceFire · **Reply #15 on:** June 10, 2003, 04:50:16 pm

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Originally posted by miniDwarf
2) or maybe in TBP as some generic messages that any fighter/species could use

We're going to be doing our own. Simulated speech isn't up to what we want it to sound like.

Bobboau · **Reply #16 on:** June 10, 2003, 05:49:15 pm

though it would be a better option than none at all, how about if you add an option to synthisise text that has no wav file

vyper · **Reply #17 on:** June 10, 2003, 06:02:13 pm

This is a dangerous path to go down. We cannot say for sure how good any voice synth will be, especially with the wonderful grammer some fredders use (myself included).

Besides which, voice acting is better...

Rictor · **Reply #18 on:** June 10, 2003, 06:04:18 pm

You can use the software (rhetorical I think its called) on their site as many times as you like. You just type the stuff in, select the option to save to harddrive and voila. Its not perfect but I think it (no offence) better than anything anyone here could come up with. The intonation is a really hard thing to do right.

I'll check out the Speakonia thing later.

mikhael · **Reply #19 on:** June 10, 2003, 11:15:08 pm

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Originally posted by vyper
This is a dangerous path to go down. We cannot say for sure how good any voice synth will be, especially with the wonderful grammer some fredders use (myself included). Besides which, voice acting is better...

Use it or don't. Just make sure that the option exists to turn it the hell off.

RandomTiger: *****ing Betty voice is BEST IDEA EVAR.

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