EDDI uses your default computer voice. HCS voice pack ASTRA uses Ivona's British Amy as a template. Their Brian voice pack uses Ivona's British Brian. Each voice costs $45 from TextAloud. And they are the clearest, most pleasant sounding TTS voices I've ever heard.
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EDDI uses your default computer voice. HCS voice pack ASTRA uses Ivona's British Amy as a template. Their Brian voice pack uses Ivona's British Brian. Each voice costs $45 from TextAloud. And they are the clearest, most pleasant sounding TTS voices I've ever heard.
Try this?
Code:
{for body in system.bodies:
{if body.name = event.body:
Sensors place the gravity of this world at {round(body.gravity,1)} gees.
}
}
Beautiful! Thanks.
edit: That worked for a well traveled planet, but when I went out into the black, despite running EDDiscovery and seeing the system in EDDB and EDSM, It didn't find the body. I thought it was just referencing my local journal files anyway so I'm really confused.
edit: That worked for a well traveled planet, but when I went out into the black, despite running EDDiscovery and seeing the system in EDDB and EDSM, It didn't find the body. I thought it was just referencing my local journal files anyway so I'm really confused.
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EDDI runs a day or so behind EDDB, due to EDDB not having its own API and requiring EDDI to run a shadow database.
Multi-Crew requires VoiceAttack beta v1.6.1.7 or newer (although newer hasn't been tested but is usually ok)
read the readme that is in the Multi-Crew folder, usually helps
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Yup. I know that. I was asking more about how to use the EDDI synthesized voice in my commands to have a uniform voice across all responses.
The part where he shows the script as "hello script" has to be simply script and then, of course, in the external plugin page Text Variables you have to put "script" as well.
The EDDI synthesized voice is your default computer voice. You can use that in Voice Attack with or without EDDI. If there's no way to do it in EDDI, i.e. "Landing Gear deployed" "Power to weapons" or some such, In your voice command, you can use the audio button and then choose Say Something with Text-To-Speech. You can even use SSML, the speech synthesis markup language. Just make sure you have the voice set as Default in your Say Something with Text-to-Speech setup box.
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In terms of getting pronunciations of systems correct ish (Tau Ceti) etc, is there a way to get Eddi/TTS to do that? I thought I happened across a web page when I was setting it up that explained something about a config file you could add phonetics too (not sure if Eddi or VA) but I'm beggered if I can find it again.
Also, in the main EDDI knows how many times I've visited a certain system but no matter how many times I go to Sol, Alpha Centauri etc it is always my first visit? Even if I have been there 10 mins before in the same session. Any clues?
Cheers guys
Also, in the main EDDI knows how many times I've visited a certain system but no matter how many times I go to Sol, Alpha Centauri etc it is always my first visit? Even if I have been there 10 mins before in the same session. Any clues?
Cheers guys
Hello! I'm just coming back to Elite after more than a year away and I've just discovered this mod! Please allow me a few n00b questions; catching up to 86 pages of the thread isn't easy!
1. What voice was used in the demo videos on the first page?
2. If text-to-speech stuff is a must, what happens when using a Voice Pack? Does the Voice Pack (I'm assuming HCS Voice Packs?) contain everything like star data and others? Or will it result in using a Voice Pack when able, but will use text-to-speech in other cases?
3. Is there a pre-built Voice Attack profile available?
4. Is this compatible with EDMC? What about EDDiscovery? Do they play nice together or will I have to uninstall some programs?
5. If I don't want to send data to EDDN or EDSM, do I just un-tick the "Plugin enabled" box?
I was hoping to get to use this mod with William Shatner's voice from HCS Voice, but I'm not sure if it's possible. Any help appreciated! Thanks!
1. What voice was used in the demo videos on the first page?
2. If text-to-speech stuff is a must, what happens when using a Voice Pack? Does the Voice Pack (I'm assuming HCS Voice Packs?) contain everything like star data and others? Or will it result in using a Voice Pack when able, but will use text-to-speech in other cases?
3. Is there a pre-built Voice Attack profile available?
4. Is this compatible with EDMC? What about EDDiscovery? Do they play nice together or will I have to uninstall some programs?
5. If I don't want to send data to EDDN or EDSM, do I just un-tick the "Plugin enabled" box?
I was hoping to get to use this mod with William Shatner's voice from HCS Voice, but I'm not sure if it's possible. Any help appreciated! Thanks!
I'm using it with Shatner's voicepack. You just have two dofferent onboard voices, Shatner's and the one EDDI uses for it's chatter, which is down to which voice you have installed and set up in your Microsoft Speech set up. I use Ivona Amy which costs money but she's good.
Occasionally, mainly when docking you will get Shatner asking to lower your landing gear etc while EDDI is telling you where your landing pad is and they both talk over each other but that's about it...
And yeah, just untick the plugins you don't want.
The HCS voice packs do not contain data, they're recorded specific responses, I was using Astra, and while I still use the profile I switched all speech to Ivona Amy speech synthesizer, thereby removing the limitation of pre-recorded speech, it worked out for me because Ivona Amy sounds a little bit like Astra.
For pronunciations, if you let me know when you find systems that aren't pronounced correctly then I can take a look at adding it to the translations. However, this does rely on the ability of the voice you are using to be able to use phonetic speech. Generally speaking, the free voices can't manage phonetic speech and the paid-for voices can, at least in my experience.
As for EDDI not keeping track of the number of visits, that suggests that you have a problem with your %APPDATA%\EDDI\EDDI.sqlite file. I recommend removing it and refreshing from EDSM (assuming that you have set up the EDSM responder) and see if that helps.
1. It is one of the Ivona voices, either Emma or Amy I forget which.
2. EDDI uses text-to-speech exclusively, and does not use voice packs. A number of people have used voice packs with EDDI, but they do their own custom profiles for that.
3. There is a minimal profile for VoiceAttack. All of the direct responses to events occur in the Speech Responder, so it's only user-activated items that are in the profile. Again, people have added a lot to the base profile but more to augment existing VoiceAttack profiles than to build a generic profile suitable for everyone
4. You can run other apps alongside EDDI, there have been no reports of clashes.
5. Correct.
Ivona British Amy is the template for Astra. It sounds like they took and recorded directly from the computer onto first mp3 files and then for later versions onto wav files. I can't tell the difference between the two voices: Astra and Amy except Astra is a bit louder with a bit more reverb.
Thanks for the responses! Can anyone tell me how much (in $$ or preferrably ££) Ivona voices costs? I looked at the website and there's no mention of price; the other paid-for voice site was around £25
Can someone tell me how "integrated" EDDI can be with a Voice Attack/HCS Voice Pack? I'm hoping to use Orion, Vega, or even Eli, but with EDDI.
Can someone tell me how "integrated" EDDI can be with a Voice Attack/HCS Voice Pack? I'm hoping to use Orion, Vega, or even Eli, but with EDDI.
Thanks for the responses! Can anyone tell me how much (in $$ or preferrably ££) Ivona voices costs? I looked at the website and there's no mention of price; the other paid-for voice site was around £25
Can someone tell me how "integrated" EDDI can be with a Voice Attack/HCS Voice Pack? I'm hoping to use Orion, Vega, or even Eli, but with EDDI.
I'm using Amy and Emma mostly (Amy as my VA text to speech voice and Emma as my EDDI voice) and bought them here:
http://www.deskshare.com/text-to-speech-voices.aspx
I also have several HCS voicepacks and you can integrate EDDI in them individually. I'm using the Multi-crew profile (used to be a free profile but now comes with the Astra voicepack)
With this Multi-crew profile you can use different voicepacks at the same time so you could assign Orion to Comms, Vega to Flight and Eli to Tactical.
Multi-crew has an option to turn EDDI on or off and comes with predefined commands that make use of EDDI.
The advantage of using Multi-crew is you only have to modify one profile if you want to make personal changes to EDDI and still use the different voices that come with the voicepacks.
More info about Multi-crew is here:
http://forum.hcsvoicepacks.com/forum/elite-dangerous-discussion/6398-multi-crew-profile
Do these come with a windows installer to install the voice into the Windows Text to Speech system? The reason I ask is because the purchase seems to be for the Text Speaker application. I paid $45 USD for just the voice installer with no extra software.
$45 per voice is about right, they are much dearer than a HCS voicepack but obviously much more flexible depending on how you want to use them. Yeah, just installs as a windows TTS voice afaik
Well, the reason I ask is that the link to Text Reader that he provided listed each voice as $29.95 USD. Which makes me think that you have to use the Text Speaker application. And Astra sounds just like Ivona's Amy, just a bit louder with a bit more reverb. And that can be done with audio editing software.
When you buy a voice it selects the Text Speaker application also but you can deselect it. After the purchase you get a link to the file for instance Emma.exe. Running this starts the installer looking like this:
I bought Amy about 2 years ago for € 39,-- (from Harpo.com) and Emma in October 2016 for € 29,-- (from Deskshare.com)
Before buying Amy I tried the evaluation download and that expired after a month IIRC so you could also try it out first (I see on Deskhare you can also download the evaluation version)
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