[casual_games] Dummy voice over

[Matthew Wegner]

PTTS is a command-line tool for using SAPI4/5 voices for text-to-speech.
You could easily automate some kind of WAV file creation with this:
http://jampal.sourceforge.net/ptts.html

We have a scrolling LED sign in the office that lists events, and use this
for the speech part of it.

Best,
Matthew

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Paul Steven <paul_steven at btinternet.com>wrote:


>  Sorry for the late reply – I just wanted to say thanks Aaron for the link

> to the text to speech online tool. It has been extremely helpful playing the

> games with the dummy audio and has lead to quite a few changes in the voice

> over script. Perhaps one day these text to speech things will be good enough

> to prevent me having to spend so much on the voice overJ

>

>

>

> Cheers

>

>

>

> Paul

>

>

>

> *From:* casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:

> casual_games-bounces at igda.org] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Murray

> *Sent:* 27 October 2008 11:46

> *To:* IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

> *Subject:* Re: [casual_games] Dummy voice over

>

>

>

> Hi Paul,

>

>

>

> Personally I like placeholder audio, but I've been advised against it by

> some audio people because sometimes it gets left in, or even worse, the

> developers get used to it and they want the real sound/tracks/voice to be

> familiar, which can cause problems. That said, I use placeholder audio when

> possible.

>

>

>

> As for a tool, I've used this web tool before:

> http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php<http://www.research.att.com/%7Ettsweb/tts/demo.php>

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>

> Surely there are some windows tools available, I just haven't used any.

>

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>

> -Aaron

>

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Paul Steven <paul_steven at btinternet.com>

> wrote:

>

> I am developing a series of games that have a considerable amount of voice

> over. Ideally I would like to record the voice over as late as possible so

> I

> can be sure I have considered all eventualities. However I really need to

> have some voice over to enable me to program and test the games. One

> possibility is for me to just record a rough version myself however I

> wondered if there is any other alternatives? Perhaps there is a program

> that

> I can type into and it will output a wav of text to speech?

>

> Any advice much appreciated!

>

> Thanks

>

> Paul

>

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