Hi. send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if that works ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Scholes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] we need your help!
> Hi, at your mentioning of Golum, oh how I want to start talking about Lord > of the Rings lol, so I will ask, is there an email command to turn > messages > on in Google Groups for the off topic list which runs along side this one? > Because at the moment I'm stuck without mail from that group, and I don't > feel like braving the Google Groups interface. > > Dark wrote: > > || Hmmmm, I've only ever once or twice encountered E-mails from people > || who > || write with that kind of syntax, usually it's easy enough to tell in > || writing > || I find, ---- though not necessarily in speech due to accent. > || > || In fact, at the moment in a story i'm writing I'm coming up with the > || speech patterns for an alien with very different senses and concepts > || to a > || human, ---- which is fun! > || > || Then again, ---- I was introduced to golum at a very young age, lol! > || > || Beware the Grue! > || > || Dark. > || ----- Original Message ----- > || From: "Charles Rivard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > || To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > || Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:38 PM > || Subject: Re: [Audyssey] we need your help! > || > || > ||| Ever just skip over Emails from people who you don't understand > ||| because of the way they try to convey their ideas? I think this is > ||| the same principle. > ||| There are people who live in Phoenix, Arizona, who I would never > ||| use to create voice files for any game I produce because, frankly, > ||| I cannot understand them. They would say, for example, "You go > ||| store for buy stuff me for?" What they meant was "Would you go to > ||| the store to buy stuff for me?" And they use such a heavy Mexican > ||| accent, and they ask their question > ||| so fast, there's no way I knew what they said. There's no way I > ||| would even > ||| contemplate having people pay for a game I produce if it sounded > ||| like this. > ||| > ||| --- > ||| Laughter is the best medicine. Look around you and find a dose. > ||| ----- Original Message ----- > ||| From: "Dark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ||| To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > ||| Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:03 AM > ||| Subject: Re: [Audyssey] we need your help! > ||| > ||| > |||| I must admit, I disagree with you here tom. > |||| > |||| It's probably something to do with being English and getting lots > |||| of american films, tv etc, but I have no problem with accents so > |||| long as the speech is understandable. > |||| > |||| One of my very best friends is russian, and though she's lived in > |||| the uk sinse she was twelve, she stil has a noticeable russian > |||| accent, ---- actually if I ever need a female barbarian warrior > |||| for a game I was going to > |||| ask for her voice tallents (a roll she'd fulfill very well, though > |||| slightly > |||| type cast, lol!). > |||| > |||| Obviously there is situational type casting, ---- afterall if your > |||| yee old > |||| arthurian England knight is speaking with a German accent, there's > |||| something > |||| wrong, but generally I don't mind. > |||| > |||| In fact, ---- appologies for saying, but i find American accents > |||| in very Arthurian or tolkeen like fantasy slightly incongruous. > |||| Not off > |||| putting, --- > |||| I'd just prefer an English accent in that context given the choice > |||| sinse it > |||| seems to go with the genre for me, ---- the way a very English > |||| cowboy in the > |||| old west would just sound wrong. > |||| > |||| I fully agree with you on the clarity issue though, if an accent > |||| is so pronounced as to be unclear to non-natives of that accent, > |||| it's not going to > |||| be great in an audiogame. > |||| > |||| beware the Grue! > |||| > |||| Dark. > |||| ----- Original Message ----- > |||| From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |||| To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > |||| Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 4:14 PM > |||| Subject: Re: [Audyssey] we need your help! > |||| > |||| > ||||| Hi Claudio, > ||||| > ||||| Quote > ||||| For the voice I se two possibilitys: > ||||| 1. I take a synthetick language like "sapi" or 2. I'll record it > ||||| with my voice. > ||||| > ||||| End quote > ||||| > ||||| Correct if I am wrong but your native language is German? If you > ||||| are going to be making games globally then you will likely want > ||||| to use a Sapi voice which is of good quality that is more or less > ||||| clear and unaccented for your products. If your personal English > ||||| and accent is not clear it could effect the over all end user > ||||| experience. > ||||| For example, Playing In the Darks racing game is an ok racing > ||||| game. However, the one thing that killed it for me was the voice > ||||| files for the directions, menus, and things. The guys accent > ||||| clearly wasn't American which was a bit jarring to me, and I > ||||| personally wasn't too fond of his voice. 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