[Cobra]

Briefings/debriefings simply play a wav or ogg; there's no reason you couldn't have more than one person talking.

The BtRL guys pulled that off beautifully.

[General Battuta]

*girl, I believe, but yeah, it was awesome

[Cobra]

*girl, I believe, but yeah, it was awesome

That, plus the way they had their ingame message setup.

[Aesaar]

To be honest, I don't think voice acting is necessary for the fiction viewer parts.  They work very, very well as only text and music.

[LHN91]

So. Been planning to work on some more lines for this, but the times when I've been not working or otherwise out of the house, my voice's been acting up. We'll see how my voice is sounding tomorrow, hopefully I can get some more sent in.

[Gunteen6]

Personally I'm interested in the Alliance News Reporter lines. I've been told I pull off a great radio voice.

[Iss Mneur]

I would like to say, it looks like Cobra has been doing a fine job and by taking this project on has allowed me time to work on other projects and not be spread so thin.  Three cheers for Cobra!

To be honest, I don't think voice acting is necessary for the fiction viewer parts.  They work very, very well as only text and music.

I am sort of ambivalent about it.

Goober5000 is worried that it will turn into "BP:WiH Books on Tape" .

I think it could actually work very well if it was handled correctly. And after working with BP team, I know they will make it work very well or not at all (assuming that FSO gets the ability to play VA in the Fiction Viewer).

[-Norbert-]

If my memory serves me right, the fiction viewer reads like Laport is either writing a diary or dictating a personal log to the computer.
Either way, if it get's voice acted, I'd like it more if all the fiction viewer lines are told by Laporte, not a mix of voices.

But unless the SCP team makes the necessary changes, this is academic anyway.

[SaltyWaffles]

Akula is ‘ACK-uh-luh’,

Wait, what? Isn't "Akula" pronounced 'uh-KUE-luh'? For starters, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon pronounces it that way, regardless of character, accent, nationality, etc., and implies it to be the normal pronunciation for the word (which means 'shark'), so...?

[General Battuta]

Nope, Ace Combat got it wrong. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Uk-%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0.ogg

[SaltyWaffles]

Nope, Ace Combat got it wrong. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Uk-%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0.ogg

This is where things get funny...

Apparently (I might be misunderstanding this whole thing), "akula" is also a Russian word. The link you provided is for the Ukranian word (unless it's also Russian? Again, I might just have it all confused, here).

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Ru-%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0.ogg

That's for the (or "a") Russian version.

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In both cases, it didn't seem like the 'ACK-uh-luh" pronunciation was correct. The one you provided sounded (to me) like "AH-kue-luh" (the Spanish-version "a"), and the one I found sounds closer to the "uh-KUE-luh" pronunciation (it sounds something like 'ah-KUE-uh').

I feel like I'm missing some pieces of the puzzle.

[rscaper1070]

I've always pronounced it like they do in "Hunt for Red October".

[Azrael15]

Okay, so, I submitted auditions for Kassim and Ranvir Control ages ago - I never heard anything back. Were those files passed on to you, Cobra, or should I resubmit them? I see Kassim has been cast, so, it'd just be the lines for Ranvir.

[Iss Mneur]

Okay, so, I submitted auditions for Kassim and Ranvir Control ages ago - I never heard anything back. Were those files passed on to you, Cobra, or should I resubmit them? I see Kassim has been cast, so, it'd just be the lines for Ranvir.

They will have been transferred to Cobra if you received a "receipt" message from me.  PM Cobra your email address and he can check the archive.  I checked my copy, your handle on HLP does not come up in the search so I assume you used a different name in the submission.

[Cobra]

Yeah, I don't have anything, either. And I'm considering finding someone else, the guy I got for Kassim hasn't even started yet.

[LHN91]

So random side note, I never did receive a receipt response on my submission, one line'd though it may have been. I still plan to get more sent in, but life has been hectic lately.

[Black_Yoshi1230]

Well, some of my lines are shipped and away. Now all I can do is wait.

[Cobra]

So random side note, I never did receive a receipt response on my submission, one line'd though it may have been. I still plan to get more sent in, but life has been hectic lately.

Might have missed them, when I'm posted I can't usually check my emails and I tend to get a lot of spam mixed in. I manage to catch all the non junk though.

[Cobra]

Okay so I kind of maybe sorta likely dropped the ball on sending back message receipts. Send y'all's emails again and we'll see if I didn't miss any of you in the process.

[Meatball]

I don't know if you guys don't have enough people who wants to be voiced in the game and signs up, or if most people are not good enough.

But they are many voice morphing programs out there that does excellent jobs to morph voices to sound like a different person. Giving you maybe 10+ casts for 1 person.
Cobra, you should use this if you don't have enough people to give you voices. If you have 1-10 very good voice actors, you could give them roles to voice more casts, and morph their voices to a different voice that sounds suitable.

Of course, accents can't be changed. But if a voice actor can do different accents, you're golden.