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Offline Trivial Psychic

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[Feature Inquiry]Force SynthVoice On & Wav File Overlap
This may be a useful feature for any mod that has voice acting... if its possible.  The primary advantage for this feature would be for any mod or campaign that has Vasudans in it.  It would firstly require the ability to turn SynthVoice on, regardless of whether its been activated in the launcher (though obviously, if the build being used doesn't have SynthVoice, then it would do nothing).  That's probably not all that difficult to code.  The big question mark is whether you can force the game to play both the indicated wav file AND the SynthVoice over one another.  Then all you need to do is select one of the untranslated Vasudan speech files (like those of varying length included in BR's STL campaign) of appropriate length based on the message length, and click on the "Force SynthVoice" checkbox (as I see it) and it would play them both at the same time, making a better-than-nothing simulation of Vasudan speech translation.

Is this doable?  Is this desirable?  Is it more trouble than its worth?
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Offline MatthTheGeek

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Re: [Feature Inquiry]Force SynthVoice On & Wav File Overlap
What prevents you to just record M$ Sam or whatever (free or otherwise) text-to-speech yourself, and pack the wav files in your mod ? It would have the advantage of everyone hearing the same voices instead of hearing whatever TTS they have, if at all (IIRC TTS is only supported on Windows, is it not ?).
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Offline Trivial Psychic

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Re: [Feature Inquiry]Force SynthVoice On & Wav File Overlap
Is there a(n easy) way to dump MS-speech to an audio file?
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Offline MatthTheGeek

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Re: [Feature Inquiry]Force SynthVoice On & Wav File Overlap
I'd start by googling it.
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666maslo666: Releasing a finished product is not a good thing! It is a modern fad.

SpardaSon21: it seems like you exist in a permanent state of half-joking misanthropy

Axem: when you put it like that, i sound like an insane person

bigchunk1: it's not retarded it's american!
bigchunk1: ...

batwota: steele's maneuvering for the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: you mispelled grâce
Awaesaar: grace
batwota: oh right :P
Darius: ah!
Darius: yes, i like that
MatthTheGeek: the way you just spelled it it means fat
Awaesaar: +accent I forgot how to keyboard
MatthTheGeek: or grease
Darius: the killing fat!
Axem: jabba does the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: XD
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Offline Cyborg17

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Re: [Feature Inquiry]Force SynthVoice On & Wav File Overlap
Audacity can record the speaker output as opposed to the Microphone input.  You could do it that way.