[TopAce]

I am wondering what accent the voice actors speak in FreeSpace. I know the pronounciation of both versions (British and American) but I find FreeSpace messages hard to connect with either group. I can't decide which one they belong to, I have a rough guess they are with American accent.

I have just finished watching all the cutscenes from both games and this question came up in me.

What do you think? I am just curious.

Or are they mixed?

[WMCoolmon]

I think all or nearly all are American.

[Mongoose]

Besides the comm officer for the Aquitaine and Lt. Cordova, whom I believe have  British accents, the rest of the voice cast have  American accents.  Your guess is as good as mine for the Vasudans, though.

[General Freak]

Yeah, they're mostly Americans. The NTF pilots often speak with a southern accent (they're all rednecks :|), and don't forget that the official language of the GTA was American English.

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by General Freak
Yeah, they're mostly Americans. The NTF pilots often speak with a southern accent (they're all rednecks :|), and don't forget that the official language of the GTA was American English.

You sure about that?  I can't recall most of the NTF pilots specifically, but I know for a fact that the pilot who berates you in "...But Hate the Traitor" didn't have a southern accent.

[StratComm]

He didn't.  They're all (with the forementioned exceptions) general American accents.  And the Vasudans are just modulated versions of the Terran voices in all cases, though the mechanization process tends to drown a good bit of that out.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by General Freak
Yeah, they're mostly Americans. The NTF pilots often speak with a southern accent (they're all rednecks :|), and don't forget that the official language of the GTA was American English.

Yes, yes, but the voice actors might still have been British.

[Nuclear1]

Cordova I thought had a slight British accent to him. It might just be some odd 'merkin accent though.

All of the voices in FS were acted by Americans, IIRC.

[CP5670]

Cordova definitely sounded British, but the rest were all American voices. Petrarch had a funny way of talking though; every now and then he would skip a syllable or a word, or at least say it too softly to be audible.

[Nuclear1]

Well, considering how Robert Loggia was ~65 years old when he acted it, I was impressed.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by CP5670
Cordova definitely sounded British, but the rest were all American voices. Petrarch had a funny way of talking though; every now and then he would skip a syllable or a word, or at least say it too softly to be audible.

Yeah, that's a bit weird.  I wonder if it's an artifact of the editing process: they use a filter to reduce static, and it has the side effect of cutting out quiet syllables.

[aldo_14]

IIRc they were all pretty toffee nosed English accents.  I wish there were some more.. regional accents  (ooh aye there, thar be a big Ravana me puppies)

(as an aside....)

One of the plans me and DG cooked up for Reci, IIRc, was to have an incredibly foul mouthed Russian pilot with proper Russian swearing.  

[Nuclear1]

Boomerang sure fixed the problem with accents though.

"Thees ees zzzZeta Wing! Looks like we meesed de party."

[StratComm]

Originally posted by CP5670
Cordova definitely sounded British, but the rest were all American voices. Petrarch had a funny way of talking though; every now and then he would skip a syllable or a word, or at least say it too softly to be audible.

Not too different from the way he talked in Independence Day though.

[Mongoose]

I always thought of Loggia's accent as a regional variant of Awesome.

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by StratComm
Not too different from the way he talked in Independence Day though.

Shouldn't be either. ID4 was released in 1996, and FS2 only a few years later.

[/stops Loggia factfiles]

[IceFire]

They all have what you might call a metropolitan north american accent.  One that you commonly find in the major business centers.

Whatever they did, it sounds very generic.  It doesn't have much regional quality to it...I can't really identify where these people are from.  Command is a bit of an exception.  There is an accent there but its hard to place.  And Loggia just talks like himself...

[Geezer]

If I remember the voices correctly, it's called "General American" or "Standard Midwestern".  It's not perceived as a regional accent by most American listeners.  It's used by people who want to be "accentless".  Actors would use it to sound like they weren't from anywhere in particular.  There's a Wikipedia article about it.

[Bobboau]

Cordova spoke with a regonal dialect of fuct up, I couldn't hardly understand a word that came out of his mouth. always mispronounceing stuff and crap.

[Mefustae]

Ha! If you want to hear hilarious mis-pronounciations and downright rape of the English language, you should go to Ameri... *looks at Bobboau's location*... uh... well... I mean... uh... France...! Yes, France...*Slinks away*