Hard Light Productions Forums

Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: FreespacePilot2010 on February 07, 2010, 05:25:17 pm

Title: Male CG voice?
Post by: FreespacePilot2010 on February 07, 2010, 05:25:17 pm

Is there anyway to change a male characters voice so that it sounds male instead of the standard computer generated female voice?Its kind of weird when male characters sound like a woman.It would be useful for my mission im making.

Title: Re: Male CG voice?
Post by: General Battuta on February 07, 2010, 05:29:28 pm

No. Text-to-speech uses voices provided with the OS. You can set Microsoft Sam or Microsoft Mary or whatever, but you can't mix them.

Unless you recorded Text-To-Speech output and used it as 'voice acting' for the lines.

Title: Re: Male CG voice?
Post by: FreespacePilot2010 on February 07, 2010, 05:34:05 pm

Thanks for letting me know.I was hoping that I could mix them. But Ill try using text to speech as voice recording instead.There are a few free text to speech with mp3 output programs that ive found.

Title: Re: Male CG voice?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on February 07, 2010, 06:54:44 pm

Speakonia is my favourite. Combine with audacity for all your needs.
 
Google provides both :)

Title: Re: Male CG voice?
Post by: IronBeer on February 08, 2010, 12:08:16 pm

I hesitate to mention this software, but perhaps you could convince the publishers to let you use a few clips.
Linky: http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php (http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php)

Granted, they seem pretty serious about the "personal use" and ""minimal commercial impact" aspects; I'm sure none of us would want to test the precise meaning of those phrases. Caveat emptor.