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Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331230] Wed, 12 March 2014 20:28 Go to next message
Rust_Knight is currently offline Rust_Knight

 
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I'm just wondering, how exactly did the 1.13 select candidates for the 1.13 new characters voice acting?

Further more, how was it possible that you even created GERMAN voices in German? I mean this sounds like a colossal work.

I would presume you selected volunteers based on some probing lines that they should have read or interpret.

And also where did they register their voice lines? Each's in his own private super studio? Because the sound quality is just great!

I was interested on the subject since i am super fan of the German language, I am really studying it for pleasure and i was wondering if you guys are in need of some voice actors that can pronounce German a little less in an authentic way.

Very interesting subject, looking forward to talk on it!

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331231] Wed, 12 March 2014 21:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Which new 1.13 mercs do you mean? The Wildfire mercs? Those voices are directly taken from JA2 Wildfire (note that the same voice actors also did the English voice set of the WF mercs, that's why most of the WF mercs sound so bad in English).

As for new DG mercs that were added, I think those only have English voice sets (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331232] Wed, 12 March 2014 21:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
wanne (aka RoWa21) is currently offline wanne (aka RoWa21)

 
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smeagol

As for new DG mercs that were added, I think those only have English voice sets (someone correct me if I'm wrong).


Exactly, currently the DG mercs have only English voice. I have all the german speech files extracted for the DG mercs. So If someone has a lot of free time we could add german speech for the DG mercs.

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331235] Wed, 12 March 2014 23:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Actually that's what i was thinking of - although i really want these voices to be top notch quality - and i don't know if I'm top notch quality of a voice actor. Although - i really played on stage in real life as an actor at some point...

Now I'm somewhat of a lawyer - i am not sure how i can hold this relevant to the topic but i would really would like to help you guys on it.

Myself i got a pretty low pitch voice, low tone. My English is... very round - some said i could be confused with native speakers, to make a short list it varied from:

"You sound a bit": African, Arabic, Indian, Russian, Native English speaker, no special accent.
Those were the impressions from different people, which was a bit confusing for me to interpret them.
All in all, i would really put my time for German spoken texts, for the German version.

I know German to some extent, and reading is almost very easy for me. I am thinking you guys could give me (ANY) a German character from JA 2 that doesn't have already voices in German and would also fit a non Native-German spoken German. (What i tried to say is like how Igor speaks english but it has that english that sounds spoken from a russian).

Also - what are new DG mercs? And what exactly did wildfire add in criteria of new mercs?
Are there currently any fan made voices in German language that needed to be filled ?

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331236] Wed, 12 March 2014 23:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Maybe Spooky. All the old JA1DG mercs and the WF mercs have their original files.

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331237] Wed, 12 March 2014 23:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Is anyone from the forum with his voice in a character from the currecnt ja 2 1.13 ?
Also who made Laura's voice?

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331238] Wed, 12 March 2014 23:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gorro der Grüne is currently offline Gorro der Grüne

 
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Laura and all WF6 voices (original German) were topware employees

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331239] Wed, 12 March 2014 23:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Is anyone from the forum with his voice in a character from the currecnt ja 2 1.13 ?
No. We don't use fan content as far as characters go, only those from one of the released games.

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331242] Thu, 13 March 2014 00:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Oh... Ok i had the feeling that the voices from JA 2 for the "new" characters were actually fan made by forum users, or other volunteers.

But still, i don't get it, there are a lot of characters added, some of them i thought they were added by the 1.13 dev team. From where did they get their voices?

And who's Spooky?

Also, is there a real need for contribution for German voices ?

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331243] Thu, 13 March 2014 00:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
DepressivesBrot is currently offline DepressivesBrot

 
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There are 2 groups of mercs currently added by 1.13:

- mercs from the mod-turned-retail-game JA2: WildFire
- mercs from Deadly Games, the addon to JA1

all voice files are simply ripped from the respective game.

Spooky is the only outlier, he's from the JA2UB mod SOG '69 and was judged to be of high enough quality to be included.

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331246] Thu, 13 March 2014 09:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yeah i quickly took a look at him and he's really good. Looks super pro.
But still, i think maybe some native Germans should do his voice. It would have been tons of fun for me do it i guess but I'm not sure how it would have worked out at the end.

And since this topic is about to come to an end, quick question: is a new 1.13 stable version coming out ? The last stable one was the one from 2011, right?
And would you guys port the new stable version to German also ?

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331248] Thu, 13 March 2014 09:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Gorro der Grüne is currently offline Gorro der Grüne

 
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NO no native *insert nation* should do voices 4 mercs that aren't his nation.

Voices should ALWAYS be done by people who are the merc's nation.

-> much more depth!

since I don't play German due to the shitty voices (exept IMPs - they are better) I will use "English" examples.

e.g. the English voices of Grunty, Steroid and Barry are bs due to misspronounciation (1), false words (2) and sometimes grammar (3)

Grunty who is the best of the worse

1: Schei

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #331716] Fri, 11 April 2014 12:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Happened to come across this thread.

I learned German in college, I could read from a script and send audio files if anyone wants me to

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Re: Voice acting needed for german voices?[message #332048] Thu, 01 May 2014 20:17 Go to previous message
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