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Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: J.P. on May 31, 2005, 10:58:12 pm: I was looking through the threads trying to see if there was a tutorial or something that said if there was a way to edit someones voice to sound vasudan. I found this: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17188.0.html

Galemp said he was working on it but I didn't find one that said he found out how. Has anyone ever figured it out?
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: karajorma on June 01, 2005, 11:15:57 am: What most people do is cut up the vasudan speech that came with the game and rearrange it.

If Galemp has cracked it though I'd be interested in hear how too :)
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: pyro-manic on June 01, 2005, 11:38:01 am: Try mucking about with a bit of recorded speech in Goldwave or something similar - you can get something pretty close. I haven't tried it for years, though, so I can't remember how I did it....
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Woolie Wool on June 01, 2005, 02:33:22 pm: You don't have to exactly replicate Volition's stuff 100% perfectly. Not all Vasudans would necessarily have the same voice.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: pyro-manic on June 01, 2005, 03:51:30 pm: Yeah, but the voice you hear is the product of a translator, rather than the Vasudan's actual voice, so everything would be pretty similar. Some differences would be ok, though.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: karajorma on June 01, 2005, 04:56:43 pm: I assume that J.P is after the actual Vasudan's voice rather than the translators cause there is a guide on how to do that in Goldwave or Cool Edit lurking about somewhere.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Fade Rathnik on June 01, 2005, 07:27:21 pm: didn't :V: release a clip of untraslated loopable Vasudan talk back when FS1 came out?
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: NGTM-1R on June 01, 2005, 08:14:35 pm: They did...it's around here somewhere. I think I downloaded it once.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Unknown Target on June 01, 2005, 08:54:11 pm: I'm pretty sure there was a good 7 seconds or so of straight Vasudan speach on the ST CD or something...
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Taristin on June 01, 2005, 08:59:57 pm: in the fred docs folder, actually.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Boomer on June 01, 2005, 09:15:22 pm: Check in either Sparky.vp or (I think) the Inferno main VP. They have Vasudan speech in differing lengths with no translated speech.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Taristin on June 01, 2005, 09:30:58 pm: C:\games\freespace2\data\freddocs\vasudantalk.wav
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Charismatic on June 01, 2005, 09:35:44 pm: I remember listening to it once. D\l'ed by a 56k, cauze no one else did. There ya go raa!
Title: -_-
Post by: J.P. on June 01, 2005, 09:41:06 pm: Yes, I have that file. What I am asking is does anybody know how to edit a voice to sound like that?
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Boomer on June 01, 2005, 10:17:47 pm: Very, Very carefully.;)
I did it once but it's a PITA to keep any new sounds from interfering with the original Vasudan string. It helps to edit the sound as a bi-channel stereo file and then recombine into mono.

At least that's how I got it to work. But that was quite a while ago...
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Setekh on June 02, 2005, 03:12:22 am: Reversing and mechanising several times in Goldwave... that got you pretty close to the Vasudan sound.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Nuke on June 03, 2005, 05:26:05 am: it wouldnt be all that hard if you ever did death metal kareokae
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Charismatic on June 03, 2005, 04:11:27 pm: now That would be interesting..:dizzy:
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Bobboau on June 08, 2005, 12:12:32 am: Quote
origonaly posted by Bobboau int this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,11161.0.html)

"I can make everything from scratch
I start off with something like this for the untranslated vasudan
just act like you've got something in you're throught that doesn't want to be there

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/origonaluntranslated.wav

then I use the pitch tool and reduce it to about .75, makeing sure to preserve lenght
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/75pitchuntranslated.wav

then I make a new file for the translated speach

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/origonaltranslated.wav

then mechanise it by 30

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/maechanisedtranslated.wav

then I mix them

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/final.wav

I did all that in about two minutes so it isn't the best it could be but you get the point"
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Kosh on June 08, 2005, 04:26:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by pyro-manic
Yeah, but the voice you hear is the product of a translator, rather than the Vasudan's actual voice, so everything would be pretty similar. Some differences would be ok, though.

That's not entirely true. If you listen carefully, you can hear another voice that starts before you hear the translation. It's very deep and difficult to hear, but it's there.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: pyro-manic on June 08, 2005, 08:27:29 am: Nonono, you misunderstand. Obviously the actual Vasudan speech will be different for every individual, but the English speech is produced by the translator, so it will be a standard voice. Like using the Narrator in Windows - it's a standard voice-synthesis program. It'd vocalise the same way no matter who was speaking.

For voice-acting a campaign, you'd overlay the "Vasudanised" speech recorded by the VA on top of a Vasudan speech sample included with FRED.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: karajorma on June 08, 2005, 09:27:01 am: To a degree I agree with you but the voice of Commander Abu, Khonsu II and Admiral Khafre are all different so at the very least there must be different models of the translator.
Title: Untranslated Vasudan Talk
Post by: Cobra on June 08, 2005, 02:32:17 pm: lol, i remember some untranslated vasudan talk in the original fs2 vp. one's singing, and the other says thank you. :lol: