Hi Tom! For a sapi option, I'd use scansoft Samantha. For a human voicing option, I'd be happy to help out with voicing the menus, as I can do several different voices on q Feel free to reply off list to me, if you wish for me to send any voice, and i'd like to hear any feedback about this as well!
Trenton recordings On 1/17/2009 8:26 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi all, > As most of you know I am currently updating MOTA 0.5 to use the new > cross platform Genesis engine that uses open source game development > APIs such as SDL rather than DirectX. However, I do need your input on > something since there obviously is going to be a rather big difference > in the way speech is handled with the new engine. > In the current 0.4 release of MOTA the game gets DirectX and Sapi 5 > support from the Windows specific engine. Since there is no Sapi 5 on > Mac OS and Linux the newer Genesis engine uses wav files of > pre-recorded speech to announce status messages, menus, etc rather > than any OS specific TTS engine. There are several other game > developers that do it this way like Draconis, GMA, and BSC so this > isn't something new for accessible games. It is also just easier to do > it this way when building a cross platform engine rather than trying > to support Gnome-Speech, Apple Voices, and Sapi 5 with the same game > engine. Which brings me to my question. > I was going to have someone do the voice overs for the menus, status > messages, for 0.5 but do to other commitments and scheduling our plans > fell through. For the time being i am going to have to record all the > messages using a TTS engine such as the AT&T Voices, Scansoft Voices, > Cepstral Voices, etc. If you had a choice which of the following > voices do you personally prefer? > > AT&T Crystal > AT&T Mike > Scansoft Daniel > Scansoft Emily > Scansoft Jill > Scansoft Karen > Scansoft Lee > Scansoft Samantha > Scansoft Tom > Other > > Thanks. > > --- > 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/gam...@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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
