Voice attack with command confirmations in a different voice

Crimson1973

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Are you sick of hearing that horrible robotic voice (anna)with command confirmations, but don't want to spend a small fortune on TTS software and voices just for one application?
I have spent the morning finding a free solution. It's easy and only requires two free pieces of software.
Free Sound Recorder, and the free version of Natural Reader.
Sound recorder records the output from your soundcard. You can make the free version of natural reader say whatever you want in whatever voice you want, record the output into a wav file and you can use the wav file on voice attack.
Don't forget to rename the files generated from Sound recorder. And when loading Sound Recorder, be careful to uncheck the initial boxes or it will load a load of other garbage you don't need.
 

Crimson1973

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But you can try the other premium voices for free. Don't bother upgrading, all you need it something going through the sound card and you can capture it.
Here is an online one you can try.
http://www.ivona.com/us/
Just type in what you want said and capture it with free sound recorder. Then rename it. The Aussie Nicole is soooooo good. I also have an italian on weapons/shields. Aussie russel on other bits and peices. Makes you think you have a few different people in your crew lol.
 

Arbanax

Arbanax
Just out of interest, how many files do you end up having and can you put them in as one file or do you make lots of separate files for the different voice commands? Finally where do you put the files, with VA or with windows sound files?

Thanks

Ab
 

Crimson1973

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Arbanax said:
Just out of interest, how many files do you end up having and can you put them in as one file or do you make lots of separate files for the different voice commands? Finally where do you put the files, with VA or with windows sound files?

Thanks

Ab
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You have a small separate wav files for every command you want confirmed. Just group them all together in the one folder and using voice attack, when you speak a command you can issue the order to VA to play the sound as well as press the key to do the action required. Takes a bit of time setting up the correct VA profile, but worth it.
 

Arbanax

Arbanax
Crimson1973 said:
You have a small separate wav files for every command you want confirmed. Just group them all together in the one folder and using voice attack, when you speak a command you can issue the order to VA to play the sound as well as press the key to do the action required. Takes a bit of time setting up the correct VA profile, but worth it.
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Excellent, once things settle down I intend to start using VA to help with the things I can't keybind to my Thrustmaster, this will help enormously, as well.

Thanks

Ab
 

Uridium

Uridium
Thanks for posting these guys.... i will be revisiting this thread when i have time, and will be setting up some better voice feedback to run with my VoiceAttack.

Fly Safe!
 

Apollo Cochrane

Apollo Cochrane
Thanks for this, this is awesome. I'm using IVONA Amy, but with my pc for some reason I had recording issues where it was very faint. I found that i-Sound Recorder works perfectly. Just make sure in the options that it's set to use your speaker output as the source. There's also a handy wave-editor they make that works with it so you can tidy up the file and get rid of dead-air by cutting it out.
 

Apollo Cochrane

Apollo Cochrane
Ok so I decided I actually do like the computery voice, and I finally found a way to get the voice sounding pretty much just like the E-D Computer, and anyone can do it, and make Voice Attack say whatever you like, using the free/trial software and method discussed in this thread. So here's the breakdown:

First of all I use the IVONA website British voice, Amy. Type what you need and she'll say it, perfectly. Experiment with different ways of saying the same thing because her tonal inflections can vary depending on how you phrase it.

Then I use i-Sound Recorder set to Speakers as the Mixer Recording Source to record the sound as the webpage plays it.

Then I load the new sound file into AVS Audio Editor to add the robot voice effect. The effect is actually in Delay/Modulation>Chorus, and is called [Quartet + Solo]. After adding this I then use the Amplitude>Normalize effect and select the [Normalize to 100%] effect to bring the volume back up. Then I use the same method as before to record it by simply playing it in AVS Audio Editor but using i-Sound Recorder to actually record it as a new sound file while it's playing. If you don't like the robot effect, just skip this bit.

Finally, I use Wave Editor to trim the fat - the seconds of dead air either side of the sound. I load the second sound file - the one including the effects - into Wave Editor and select & delete the blank areas either side of the sound wave-form. Then I re-save the finished product as the final .wav file.

Sounds like a lot of work, but once you've done it a few times you can get through it pretty quickly. And the end result is well worth it ;)

Using this method, I have created a whole sound pack which I have included here in this Dropbox link, including my VA profile. You can of course use the sounds for whatever command you see fit, or make your own using the above method.

Hope this helps! :D
 
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xaccers

xaccers
With TTS VA can give one of multiple responses by putting a ; between the phases you want it to say.
Is it possible to have VA play one of a selection of wavs to give the same randomness to responses?
 

Knot2clever

Knot2clever
A lot of work

Thanks for the link Apollo Cochrane. I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this. Will check out tomorrow when the sun comes back up. Rather late in the UK.
 

B1M2D3

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Not to necessarily push another app, but I'm currently using Morphvox to create my own sound files to play as responses. No need to use the windows sound recorder either as the app has its own built in, 'create wav file', option.

TTS is cool at first, but when you realize you can make your own voices along with responses, its tons better than using the windows default text to speech. Might take a little more work, but the creative process is a blast getting everything together, then seeing it all work in game!

Cheers,

B1
 

Apollo Cochrane

Apollo Cochrane
As an alternative effect in AVS Audio Editor, again under Chorus is [3-Voice Stereo Synthesis] which sounds really cool through headphones. :)
 

gd01skorpius

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Got a link for that free voice recorder? I downloaded one from Cnet, and after unchecking the options to install 5 different other programs it records Voice attack as nearly silent. If it is the right program, can you recommend some settings that worked for you?
 

Engadine

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Apollo Cochrane said:
Ok so I decided I actually do like the computery voice, and I finally found a way to get the voice sounding pretty much just like the E-D Computer, and anyone can do it, and make Voice Attack say whatever you like, using the free/trial software and method discussed in this thread. So here's the breakdown:

First of all I use the IVONA website British voice, Amy. Type what you need and she'll say it, perfectly. Experiment with different ways of saying the same thing because her tonal inflections can vary depending on how you phrase it.

Then I use i-Sound Recorder set to Speakers as the Mixer Recording Source to record the sound as the webpage plays it.

Then I load the new sound file into AVS Audio Editor to add the robot voice effect. The effect is actually in Delay/Modulation>Chorus, and is called [Quartet + Solo]. After adding this I then use the Amplitude>Normalize effect and select the [Normalize to 100%] effect to bring the volume back up. Then I use the same method as before to record it by simply playing it in AVS Audio Editor but using i-Sound Recorder to actually record it as a new sound file while it's playing. If you don't like the robot effect, just skip this bit.

Finally, I use Wave Editor to trim the fat - the seconds of dead air either side of the sound. I load the second sound file - the one including the effects - into Wave Editor and select & delete the blank areas either side of the sound wave-form. Then I re-save the finished product as the final .wav file.

Sounds like a lot of work, but once you've done it a few times you can get through it pretty quickly. And the end result is well worth it ;)

Using this method, I have created a whole sound pack which I have included here in this Dropbox link, including my VA profile. You can of course use the sounds for whatever command you see fit, or make your own using the above method.

Hope this helps! :D
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Thanks for your tips and notes, was wondering the best cost free way of doing this and this is gold! Great work.
 

Tetsuko

Tetsuko
Apollo Cochrane said:
Ok so I decided I actually do like the computery voice, and I finally found a way to get the voice sounding pretty much just like the E-D Computer, and anyone can do it, and make Voice Attack say whatever you like, using the free/trial software and method discussed in this thread. So here's the breakdown:

First of all I use the IVONA website British voice, Amy. Type what you need and she'll say it, perfectly. Experiment with different ways of saying the same thing because her tonal inflections can vary depending on how you phrase it.

Then I use i-Sound Recorder set to Speakers as the Mixer Recording Source to record the sound as the webpage plays it.

Then I load the new sound file into AVS Audio Editor to add the robot voice effect. The effect is actually in Delay/Modulation>Chorus, and is called [Quartet + Solo]. After adding this I then use the Amplitude>Normalize effect and select the [Normalize to 100%] effect to bring the volume back up. Then I use the same method as before to record it by simply playing it in AVS Audio Editor but using i-Sound Recorder to actually record it as a new sound file while it's playing. If you don't like the robot effect, just skip this bit.

Finally, I use Wave Editor to trim the fat - the seconds of dead air either side of the sound. I load the second sound file - the one including the effects - into Wave Editor and select & delete the blank areas either side of the sound wave-form. Then I re-save the finished product as the final .wav file.

Sounds like a lot of work, but once you've done it a few times you can get through it pretty quickly. And the end result is well worth it ;)

Using this method, I have created a whole sound pack which I have included here in this Dropbox link, including my VA profile. You can of course use the sounds for whatever command you see fit, or make your own using the above method.

Hope this helps! :D
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Thanks a ton for all your hardwork. After a few minutes playing about I've also found you can get some interesting results by typing english phonetically into the other language voices. This is gonna keep me amused for hours. Yes, yes Conchita. Just let me finish typing this and I'll be right back....
 
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