Hi Kai, Well, I don't think anyone is arguing with you on those points. However, I will say for me personally if I load a game the last thing I want to hear is something like Eloquence or ESpeak come up. No matter how good or involving the quality of the game is the speech will get on my nerves big time and will not make a great impression on me. That's actually one reason I can't get in to the RS client for Linux. It uses ESpeak, only ESpeak, for speech output, and I think it sounds like crap. Since there are plenty of better sounding voices out there like the AT&T voices, Cepstral voices, etc give me one of those and I'll enjoy the games far better.
Cheers! On 1/4/11, Kai <kaixi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I believe that I did say games with pre-recorded voices did usually have the > highest quality, just the least configurability. > And the quality of the game is, in my opinion, hardly dictated by the medium > of dictation; someone could make a guess-the-number game with top-of-the > tier professional actors and actresses, full ensembles, and the works, and > it'll still be a boring guess the number game. conversely, someone could > make a game with poorly recorded speech, or speech reliant on espeaks, > slightly low-quality sound effects, but if their game is in-depth, full of > detail and replayability, that game will ultimately be more enjoyable. Audio > quality, while important, is not the fulcrum of a game's value or quality. > > Kai --- 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.
