Voice acting request:

[Bikerdude]

I'm helping SH with one of his missions and I need 3 lines doing as I have recorded all the others.

 

Builder: "No, his room is also locked and he has been acting strange of late. I am worried for all of us at the present time, what with the lower floor falling into an abyss and those accursed pagans camped outside the walls."

 

Builder: "I hope you are right brother, on a different sujbect do you know where the lower gate key has got to? as I have something to do there..."

 

builder: "Ay, good night and Builder bless our souls."

 

thanks.

[Bikerdude]

Anyone..?

[Iz Quierda]

I'll do it.

 

I'll just take a "go-ahead" from you here; take the lines above; record them; zip/rar/7z them up (as I will be submitting to you a set of uncompressed wavs; you can then compress them however you want on your end).

 

But not if it's going to turn into a nit-picking exercise. Which is not to say I won't give it a few back-and-forth goes, if necessary, to work on the directional particulars of the reading and perhaps a clear and simple way of correcting (un)clear ambient noise and/or other "unsound" recording technique or problems.

Edited August 31, 2012 by Iz Quierda

[Bikerdude]

Sure what ever you can do, I'll work on them in Aucity afterwards if need be.

[Bikerdude]

@ LZ how goes the lines..?

[Iz Quierda]

Oh... yeah, sorry.

 

Here is, as a sample, the 2nd set of lines; just to see if my voice and the recording is going to work at all. It's a very dry reading so feel free to give me some direction if you feel the other stuff (voice, recording, etc.) is going to be okay.

 

Had to add a false ".txt" extension to the attachment, it's really a ".flac" file.

 

 

[Iz Quierda]

BTW, it's "Iz" as in "izquierda", not "Lz" as in "Led Zeppelin".

 

Izzy? Or Izn't 'e?

[Bikerdude]

Thanks for that lz, the quality is quite good. Hardly any noise with clear distinct vocals, the only thing I would suggest is gettign a pop guard reduce the bass sounds on word begining with P or B. Other than that you should have a go at doing some for the core mod, we could use another distinct set of vocals :-D

 

But back on topic, when can you do the other two remaining lines..?

 

Builder: "No, his room is also locked and he has been acting strange of late. I am worried for all of us at the present time, what with the lower floor falling into an abyss and those accursed pagans camped outside the walls."

 

builder: "Ay, good night and Builder bless our souls."

[Iz Quierda]

I can do them pretty quickly, thanks, Biker.

 

I would like to ask though if you could give me the sound files (or even just the text) of what I am responding to, so that I might get some idea of what kind of inflections I should use and where? If you will do so, I think it'll make a difference. I've never understood how some people get really over concerned with "bad" voice acting (to the extent that they let it ruin games for them). But I do indeed notice it when the wrong word is stressed, and it niggles a bit.

 

So, if you will, you can PM the stuff to me so as not to reveal too much of the mission here.

 

Otherwise just tell me to get on with it and I'll just get on with it.

[Bikerdude]

done.

[Iz Quierda]

Okay, Bruv 2, here are the 3 sets of lines from Bruv 1.

[Bikerdude]

Thanks for those I will upload them for the author to use. In the meantime would you like to do any lines for the TDM itself or the campain..?

[Iz Quierda]

Glad they came out useable.

 

As for the other stuff, surely sure. Thanks for the opportunity. I got the setup and routine in practice now; so I guess the sooner the better if you have the lines (and as much context as possible).

[Bikerdude]

@Springs, do you have an AI we could use lz's voice on..?

[Springheel]

I don't have scripts lying around, if that's what you mean.

 

 

I also can't play any of those files.

[Iz Quierda]

Oh, okay, if you don't have any scripts lying around. And also can't play flacs. Well that's alright.

[Bikerdude]

@Springs, just install the K-lite codec pack

 

@lz, in the temporary absence of of scripts what you could do is pick a male Ai and then listen to all the lines for that character. As you have a slow relaxed voice Im thinking another civilian like average joe etc.

[7upMan]

Springheel, the VLC Media Player can play FLAC files perfectly well. You should definitely give this player a try, as it brings its own codecs and doesn't rely on outside codec packs.

 

Iz, this is almost professional quality! Can't wait to hear you in that FM.

[Springheel]

I usually write scripts based on the sound of the voice, so I'll see what I can do to listen to them.

 

I had an actor who bailed on me over the summer, so I may just have a ready made script after all, if it suits the voice.

[Bikerdude]

I had an actor who bailed on me over the summer, so I may just have a ready made script after all, if it suits the voice.

Ah very fortuitous then :-)

[Springheel]

I was able to give them a listen. Definitely interesting, and very different from any of our other vocals. Unfortunately the character doesn't really suit the only script I have written at the moment, and I can't say how soon I'll have time to write another one.

[Bikerdude]

Unfortunately the character doesn't really suit the only script I have written at the moment, and I can't say how soon I'll have time to write another one.

What is the other character in case I come across someone who can do them.

[Iz Quierda]

You mentioned the campaign, Biker. I assume you are referring to the Crucible campaign. What kind of characters might need doing there? I'm interested.

 

Not sure I can do anything that would fit notions of any particular character. But who knows? The voice I gave you for this exercise was an "everyman" because I wasn't asked to try anything one way or the other.

[Bikerdude]

I will post a link to this thread and see what the other members of the campaign team have to say.

[SeriousToni]

I would like to see a thread in the wiki, where you can see who spoke which voice and if he / she is still available for doing further lines. It is a big barrier to insert custom conversations to your mission, if you don't know who spoke which lines and if you find him available for more or you must find someone to imitate which is also not a good way imho.