That's the screen reader vs self-voicing debate. Based on a recent audiogames.net poll by Oriol Gomez, the community tends to prefer screen readers for in-game messages and voice acting for characters.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Marvin Hunkin" <startrekc...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 6:35 To: <gamers@audyssey.org> Subject: [Audyssey] sound packs hi. looking to start my space invaders game, well, looking to go with s tart up message, then a menu. so, was wondering which is better, using a built in text to speech engine or recorded audio by humans. a friend helped me out with the music and the images, now just looking for feedback. have done a text based hangman game done in visual basic 2010, and now, this will be a game for the blind and sighted, using javascript, in visual studio 2015. so got a space invaders engine to reference as a guide, got the howler.js audio codex, now, was wondering, unless i have to worry about cross api for all different text to speech engines and then different os, windows, mac, linux, ios, android, blackberry,e tc. so some experts done this beofre, any ideas, or any universal engine that will do that, that has a nice voice. i speak english. will be a multi player game and also able to play over the internet. any ideas, need advice, a newbie. thanks. Ps: now got a folder called Audio. Marvin. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
