| voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127509]
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Wed, 12 April 2006 06:28 
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| the scorpion |
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hi everybody
i am currently working on various NPC/ RPC characters for my mod of 1.13 and i would need speeches for them as a next step to complete them
this time around, the characters will talk english (well, rather broken english or with heavy accent depending on their ethnic background) so i am looking for english speaking voice actors.
there are various kinds of characters, ranging from various east europeans over scandinavia people to Texans, to Brits, to Italiens and some character speaking African american vernacular english ( :professor: )
i will look for german and chinese character voice acting in the german and chinese boards i guess, so the characters mentioned above would mainly be the ones for which i am looking for speakers here. Please, anybody interested can contact me the_scorpion@swissmail.net for further information and some insight into the character selection
i need your help guys since it is not too easy to make good speech files
please consider even myself i have done the voice acting for some characters so there is no need to speak english very well, english with strong accent will do it and will even be better for certain characters :naughty:
requierements is basicly to have a microphone and a tool for recording (XP has a sound recorder)
thx anybody
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127510]
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Wed, 12 April 2006 22:29 
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| the scorpion |
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it seems, the motivation for having "your own" character in a game is not quite enough, is it?
in ja2 vengeance, my voice actors later on also became betatesters and the first to fight so to say.
I hope i`ll get some feedback on this because there ar elots of characters that need voice acting
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127512]
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Thu, 13 April 2006 01:25
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| the scorpion |
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thanks for your interest CATMAN. The way i was planning it, no knowledge about modding or coding is required. i would basicly just send you the speech subtitles, which you read aloud and record
the only tool that i would send you is the ja2edt.editor. this file is some 100KB small, so i can send you that by email, plus it is in english and works simple and stable
using it, you can also correct mistakes that i made or replace whole lines with more appropriate ones.
anyway, complexity should not be an issue.
by the way it doesn`t matter what english you can talk, there are many characters that don`t really depend on an accent or a nationality for that matter
so american english is just fine, it is just that the range of playable characters is small but international
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127513]
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Thu, 13 April 2006 01:59
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How many lines of dialogue would characters need recorded and when do you need them completed by.
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127514]
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Thu, 13 April 2006 03:10
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| the scorpion |
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it completely depends on the character. some NPC have only 15-20 lines to say, RPC`s however can have over hundred lines to say (particlulairly number 57-60 as they also have some sector specific lines)
there is no deadline so far as my mod is far from being completed
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127519]
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Thu, 13 April 2006 17:14
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| the scorpion |
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Curse words/ swearing would be tolerated depending on character and his/ her probability to use swear words curses. so far i thought of a system where i write the dialogue lines but give the speaker the option to correct me if my solution/ suggestion is too substandard or old fashioned or for other reasons not matching the character
if you speak an EPC or RPC, you can use excessive cursing in the battlesounds, these have no subtitles and appear more often in tactical view
off course rather generic cursing than stuff people could get too offended.
@enemy of the bowine
1a is an example where the subtiltle can be "STFU" but the voice itself can spell it out.
@Catman
i just noticed i have no way to contact you (e-mail wise)
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127521]
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Fri, 14 April 2006 00:08
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| the scorpion |
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thank you. will send a message
hm, i can`t tell. Ja2 probably won`t be able to play brilliant quality anyway, so you definitely don`t need high end equipment as far as a mic is concerned
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127525]
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Fri, 14 April 2006 06:32
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| the scorpion |
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okay, thank you Az
indeed i do still need voice actors, volunteers are still very welcome.
i guess i don`t even have contacted all that stepped forward here becasue you know it is not easy to assign people to charaters without knowing their voices. Those that i have not yet contacted might drop me a mail, there it is easier for me...
thx for your support guys! i truly appreciate it and don`t be discouraged if it seems a bit chaotic what i am doing, assigning voices to characters is a long and complicated process and will most probably take some time
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127526]
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Fri, 14 April 2006 16:50
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| reserverat |
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I'd be willing to help but I can only speak english with a slight Australian accent altho I can add more "aussie" flavour if required.
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127527]
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Fri, 14 April 2006 21:26
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| the scorpion |
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i sent you a message reserverat.
@all
I guess i will have to properly align the characters to speakers and then see how to proceed and how many more speakers are required
i hope i get some feedback about my proposals so we can get this into an order
thx everybody for participation
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127529]
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Sat, 15 April 2006 02:29
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| the scorpion |
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errr
did you open the other files using the tool that i sent, ja2edt editor?
or did i forget to send it?
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127537]
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Mon, 17 April 2006 07:55
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| the scorpion |
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sorry. my bad
sent a new mail, hopefully to the correct account this time
it was the chopper pilot, right?
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127538]
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Tue, 18 April 2006 00:02
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| reserverat |
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scorpion did you get my reply to your email? I haven't seen any files or further message.
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127539]
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Wed, 19 April 2006 02:08
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@The Scorpion: you have mail! 
2,8 Mb of a zip in your mailbox(is it big enough?)-25 wavs,smallest at 50k, biggest is 441k. Not much bigger sound files than the ones you used in Vengeance,if I remember correctly.
Sorry,the editor you sent me couldn't open the files(missing extension,unregistered file,bla,bla,bla),sooo...I bearly managed to open that.You'll have to rename the files yourself,they are numbered from zero to twenty-four.
By the way who is,technically, the moddable NPC that supports(could support) so much talking? The only one I can think of would be Brewster...
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127541]
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Wed, 19 April 2006 04:34
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| the scorpion |
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@reserve rat
yes i received them. i was still fiddling around thinking about which characters to assign to you.
i can send you files, but had lots of problems wiht my email account so maybe it takes even longer. sorry for the delay
@azazel
i`ll check the files out thanx a lot
i like the files a lot. I think your speech very nicely matches! great job. You want a more important role? A mercenary or RPC role i guess?
there are only few RPC`s left. I have to see which speakers will actually deliver their speeches. damn it is really hard.
however i am not running out of NPC characters. Sure the one i assigne dyou is not amongst the most important ones gameplay-wise, but i guess i would have a big badass bad guy for you if you wanted to lend your voice to a villain
btw some of my speakers say that this tool http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ is very useful for this task
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127543]
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Wed, 19 April 2006 17:00
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| the scorpion |
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hi generaljoe
i have nobody so far for this character. However i guess i have to wait for some answers though
i will inform you as soon as i know more
#edit
okay, i sent you a message, looks like it works out that way. hope to hear from you soon
thank you
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| Re: voice actor casting: donate your voice [message #127547]
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Tue, 25 April 2006 23:48
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| the scorpion |
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i`m sorry i haven`t testes the program myself but i will once i get around to re-recording some speech. then i will tell. If it is very good i can try to filter your speech if you want.
i just posted the link one of my speakers sent me.
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