LE Text to Speech for unvoiced dialogues?

[ericeagle]

So, i've been playing skyrim a lot lately, and i've been using mods(obviously), but there's a thing that keeps annoying me.

 

The unvoiced dialogues. I can't stand em.

 

I mean, it might sound silly, having text to speech for unvoiced characters, or even voiced characters with unvoiced dialogues. But if you make it just right, it'd be perfect.

 

So, please make this.

[MotoSxorpio]

There was a "mod" for using Text to Speech called "Fuz Ro Bork", however the voicing was limited to two very mechanical voices, one male one female, and was such that every book/journal/note was read aloud in that voice. To gain other, nicer sounding voices one would have to purchase them, sometimes on a singular basis and for far too much for a game mod. This mod has been removed from Nexus database. Pretty much sounded like Stephen Hawking on a bad day.

[bben46]

Text to speech at this level isn't quite ready yet. I expect to see it in a few years. Currently, it is like moto described it slow and mechanical sounding with a very limited number of possible voices.

 

My first experience with text to voice was when I worked in R&D for a machinery manufacturer It was a prototype Commodore Voice Thing (yup that was what it was called) I think it was developed in concert with Ray Kurzweil ( the man in computer text to speech) in about 1980. ( it was renamed SAM before it was released for commercial use) I haven't seen a lot of improvement since.

 

Here is a link to a sample of the voice.

[MotoSxorpio]

Wow that brings back memories!

[simtam]

It would be technically possible to have one tool to extract what lines of unvoiced dialogues there are and should be voiced, and another tool that hacks into speech synthesiser of your choice and produces the needed voice files. This way it would be totally up to the player if theirs ears can handle it.