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Title: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: bolero on May 26, 2006, 05:17:44 pm

Hey guys, i have a question about voice acting when regards to the vasudans.  In the campaign Derelict they managed to get the vasudan language speaking faintly in the background while it is being translated to english.  How did they go about getting sound files for the vasudan speech, and get the translation to sound computerized like that?  Any ideas would be great!

-Bolero

Title: Re: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: aldo_14 on May 26, 2006, 05:32:19 pm

Quote from: bolero on May 26, 2006, 05:17:44 pm

Hey guys, i have a question about voice acting when regards to the vasudans.  In the campaign Derelict they managed to get the vasudan language speaking faintly in the background while it is being translated to english.  How did they go about getting sound files for the vasudan speech, and get the translation to sound computerized like that?  Any ideas would be great!

-Bolero

There's an extended piece of translation-free Vasudan speech at the Freespace website (http://www.volition-inc.com/fs/);  I'd guess they used Goldwave or similar to add a few effects etc on top.  It is possible to create new, unique Vasudan speech as well, by doing certain froody things to the sound, but I forget exactly which.

Er, that's largely a useless reply.  Sorry. :)

Title: Re: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: Nuclear1 on May 26, 2006, 07:07:30 pm

I've always used the Mechanize feature in GoldWave to achieve the translated voice effect, and simply mixing small samples of Vasudan speech in with the translated speech for the background.

GoldWave (http://www.goldwave.com/release.php) is quite good for this type of editing, though I often use it in conjunction with Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) for certain other features.

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Title: Re: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: Slanker_MT on June 02, 2006, 07:45:09 am

Blacksheep knows quite alot about this.

Title: Re: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: PotzUK on June 03, 2006, 03:24:05 pm

Just downloaded that Vasudan speech, played it in soundrec reversed.  I swear I can make out a few words of english in there!  Am I goin mad?!

Title: Re: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: Mars on June 03, 2006, 04:31:59 pm

I heard it too.  :nervous:

My guess is that they used an actuall human voice, flipped it, and ran it through a whole bunch of filters.

Title: Re: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: Flipside on June 03, 2006, 04:48:21 pm

Actually, it sounds like the guy is speaking Russian or the like, probably just a 'made up on the spot' language, I had a go at cleaning it up a bit.

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/vasudantalk.mp3

Title: Re: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: Mars on June 03, 2006, 06:20:55 pm

Good job!  :eek:

Is there a Freeware Goldwave alt.?

Title: Re: Voice acting _Vasudans
Post by: bizzybody on October 26, 2006, 02:49:21 am

The computer translation FX would be easier to do and more customizable with the Cylonix vocoder software, which is FREE. http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/cylonix.html