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Topic: 1) extract PC text or 2) have no-speech segments (Read 10519 times)
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Michael Martin
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Our vision looks like your "truly ultimate version." Note the vast number of command line options that can be mapped to "=pc" or "=3do".
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Mormont
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I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
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You guys really should make the PC dialogue the default in v0.4. Newbies who didn't play the original *really* need to hear the Melnorme metachron thing, and also the Mycon homeworld stuff, and a lot of people aren't going to bother looking at command line operatives. If you're worried about the inconsistency with speech, then you could turn the speech off by default (I personally would rather hear the music than the voices anyway).
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Jimmy C
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On the subject of the missing speech, a possibility occurs to me. How about taking apart existing speech files in the game and constructing the missing dialog out of them?
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Nic.
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Great idea. Let us know when you are finished with that.
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Jimmy C
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I ain't a sound engineer. And the only speech text I got is the UQM ones which don't have what we want. I'm sure someone here can do a better job than me anyway.
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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I think what he really meant to say was, "If you just began to try you would see how utterly hopeless the endeavor is, because speech loses its fluid realistic quality when chopped up into little pieces."
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Nic.
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The rule of thumb back in my A/V days was "1 hour on the edit deck = 1 minute of finished footage" From my meager experience splicing audio, the same rule basically applies, with the ratio of work to results growing exponentially depending on the complexity of the task. Contructing decent-sounding new material out of old (finished) material is quite a complex task.
So, if we need to "reconstruct" 10 minutes of audio (a number I just made up), you are proposing a minimum of 10 hours' work. On top of that, you have just stated that you are not willing/able to do the necessary work yourself. As such, I put comments like yours in the same bin as "someone should really solve the whole Israel/Palestine conflict"
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Rib Rdb
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one problem with trying to piece together the audio is the echo/reverb on the mycon voice - it would be quite difficult to get that to sound right if we're chopping up words. Unfortunately, looking through the mycon subtitles, it doesn't appear that there's enough whole words to splice together for the missing dialogue. Without the echo, someone might be able to make a phenome or diphone db sufficient to (probably poorly) synthesize the missing lines, but with the echo's I'm sure it will sound horrible.
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Culture20
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We could design a voice-mimicing neural net text reader, and train it on the current mycon speech and dialogue. Then feed it the missing text, and voila! Hey, maybe I _should_ solve the middle east's problems! 
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