Author Topic: Would simulated speach be a useful feature in fs2_open (Read 6043 times)

RandomTiger · **Reply #20 on:** June 11, 2003, 03:12:00 am

I have decided to do it like this:

The user has overall control split into the following areas:

Speech in techroom
Speech in briefings
Speech in game

User will be able to toggle as they want using the launcher.

However speech simulation will only be used if a wave file doesnt exist for the text.

User who have no interest in it at all dont need to install the SAPI runtime and can just live without it.

Tiara · **Reply #21 on:** June 11, 2003, 04:01:53 am

WMCoolmon · **Reply #22 on:** June 11, 2003, 04:24:38 am

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Originally posted by Tiara

Definitely a good idea, if for nothing else, simulated speech should be available to read in-game comm messages to you.

Tiara · **Reply #23 on:** June 11, 2003, 04:30:57 am

Or you could just use the rVoice demo to output .wav files

Though its limited to 50 words and/or 255 characters its more then enough for ingame messages or small briefings

Click here for audio message

phreak · **Reply #24 on:** June 12, 2003, 12:00:44 pm

do that multiple times and splice them together in goldwave

RandomTiger · **Reply #25 on:** June 20, 2003, 07:26:20 am

OK, I've implemented the speech system for the techroom and briefings but not ingame yet.

For a sample of the kind of quality of speech (not exactly the best* ) download the new launcher:

http://mysite.freeserve.com/thomaswhittaker/c_code/freespace/Launcher.rar

This is not a fs2_open launcher so dont use it for anything else just incase.

If it doesnt work then the chances are your system doesnt support this. Would be good if people with 95,98 and 2000 confirm it works on theirs.

Ultimately voice acting will always be king but this might still be useful.

* There is interesting room for improvement of the speech system, ie putting HTML type tags in the text to change the way it reads a sentence. We can look into that if it looks like people are going to use it.

TopAce · **Reply #26 on:** June 20, 2003, 08:12:33 am

Who voted 'No'?

Bobboau · **Reply #27 on:** June 20, 2003, 04:07:47 pm

some tard

karajorma · **Reply #28 on:** June 20, 2003, 04:37:22 pm

or someone who pressed the wrong button

Bobboau · **Reply #29 on:** June 20, 2003, 05:58:29 pm

what would you call someone who presses the wrong button?

karajorma · **Reply #30 on:** June 21, 2003, 02:03:37 am

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Originally posted by Bobboau
what would you call someone who presses the wrong button?

Clumsy!

J.F.K. · **Reply #31 on:** June 21, 2003, 03:58:26 am

Hey, this is sweet. Gradually getting the quality of the campaigns out there better and better.

RandomTiger · **Reply #32 on:** June 21, 2003, 07:33:05 am

How about checking out the launcher guys and giving me some feedback.

Also anyone who voted no, feel free to say why, could be useful to know.

Finally, I was going to keep this just in my code project for now but since I a long way from getting that released perhaps one of you nice fs2_open coders could offer to transfer the code over. On the whole its damn simple stuff, shouldnt need to do any restructuring. E-mail me for the code.

RandomTiger · **Reply #33 on:** June 21, 2003, 08:31:15 am

System Requirements

Operating Systems

Windows XP Professional or Home editions; all language versions.
Windows.NET Server editions; all language versions.
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Workstation or Server; all language versions.
Microsoft Windows Millennium edition.
Microsoft Windows 98 all editions.
Microsoft Windows ® NT Workstation or Server 4.0, service pack 6a, English, Japanese, or Simplified Chinese edition.
Windows 95 or earlier is not supported.

Software Requirements

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later version. Users of Windows NT 4 with any version of the service packs require Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later.

Hardware Requirements

A PentiumII\PentiumII-equivalent or later processor at 233 MHz with 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM is recommended.

SAPI 5 can now take advantage of a computer and operating system that supports multiple processors, including all those mentioned above. Additionally, you can use SAPI 5 in a distributed application environment.

Not all sound cards or sound devices are supported by SAPI 5, even if the operating system supports them otherwise.

Ryx · **Reply #34 on:** June 23, 2003, 08:04:23 am

Is there anything else I need to d/l, 'cause I'm not getting any speech with the launcher.

I'm using WinXP SP1.

RandomTiger · **Reply #35 on:** June 23, 2003, 01:40:24 pm

What does the speech section look like?
Does it have any options?

Ryx · **Reply #36 on:** June 23, 2003, 02:37:03 pm

The checkboxes in the launcher are there, and can be checked/unchecked, but when I start FS there's no speech.

Flaser · **Reply #37 on:** June 23, 2003, 04:24:04 pm

I doesn't work for me.
I have a Hungarien Windows 2000 Server (my bad by the time it was supposed to run as a server, I simply haven't had the time to archieve everything ever since.)
I don't have the API - I look for it though.
BTW this whole idea is awsome!:D I know many people who don't play user-made campaigns because they don't have a voice-over, and they can't/aren't willing to follow the plot through text.:

karajorma · **Reply #38 on:** June 23, 2003, 04:30:58 pm

Ryx. You won't get any speech in FS2 itself

You'll only get speech in the launcher if you press the play button!
The code for the speech in game is only in RT's exe (which hasn't been released!)

RandomTiger · **Reply #39 on:** June 24, 2003, 03:04:25 am

You guys probably wouldnt be happy with my FS2 exe as it is, its half way through being turned into HT&L.

I released the launcher to get an idea of compatibility and to give you guys an idea of the kind of quality of speech.

Sorry for the confusion. As soon as a coder steps up who capable of copy and pasting and compiling you can have it in fs2_open, though I havent done any ingame code yet, just breifings and techroom.

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