Hi Clement, That's true, but the point I was making that it is all relative. If someone has the money or the desire to buy a number of SAPI voices they can usually find one for each type of game that sounds appropriate for the type of ambiance they want. Its certainly not a perfect solution, but then again nothing ever is.
I agree that inflection is definitely a problem, and no matter how high a quality the voice is inflection will always be a problem with TTS systems. Although, I think some of the Apple voices do a pretty good job at faking it. Its just a shame Apple hasn't ported them to Windows platforms. :D However, as has already been said from a cost analysis getting real world actors to read every menu, button, status message, item, and monster in the game can get quite expensive. Between the fact that we are dealing with a very small community of gamers and the rate of piracy a developer such myself has to weigh the costs of paying for high quality voice acting verses what I will earn in sales. There is no assurance if I pay out say two or three hundred in professional voice actors that gamers will be lining up to buy the game at $30 each. However, if I use SAPI and lower the price to $20 people will be less likely to pirate it so its a question of cost analysis and trying to get the most effective solution for your dollar. Cheers! On 5/4/13, Clement Chou <chou.clem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, then you also have to assume that the gamer in question has that many > > voices in the first place. lol It would be nice to be able to find a voice > for each situation, but I find the issue then lies in inflection. Even with > > a deep voice, tts can only read things a certain way... and if a player in > an rpg is streaming or giving commands, I'd much rather hear it with good > feeling and inflection. But that's what I get for being a voice-acting > nerd... lol. But of course, that's all my personal taste... and I do > understand the cost implications and all the rest of it as well. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
