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Is the list of taken/free voice slots on the front page up-to-date? 

Hey, I'm an audio student and some of my actor freinds who are huge fans of elder scrolls want to get in on this.  Is there a comprehensive list of availible roles and the associated lines?  I have a girl and 3 guys, all early twenties, but good voice actors.

Hey, I'm an audio student and some of my actor freinds who are huge fans of elder scrolls want to get in on this.  Is there a comprehensive list of availible roles and the associated lines?  I have a girl and 3 guys, all early twenties, but good voice actors.

Agreed, I think digital will have to add more conditions and remove certain dialogs from people.

Okay so I've recorded all the lines for Strillian Macro, and I'm about to edit all of them for quality and submit them -  but I fear I have an S problem.
Can someone take a listen and see if the esses are bad enough for need of a serious desseing?
thanks.

 

blacksteelforge

Okay so I've recorded all the lines for Strillian Macro, and I'm about to edit all of them for quality and submit them -  but I fear I have an S problem.
Can someone take a listen and see if the esses are bad enough for need of a serious desseing?
thanks.

 

You dont have an S problem. the S sounds are not too loud. You have a noise problem.. focus on that.

blacksteelforge

Okay so I've recorded all the lines for Strillian Macro, and I'm about to edit all of them for quality and submit them -  but I fear I have an S problem.
Can someone take a listen and see if the esses are bad enough for need of a serious desseing?
thanks.

 

If you ever need to lower the volume of your esses, just follow the second tutorial on the first page of this thread.  Esses are easy to spot and highlight in Audacity.

Hiya everyone!

So I'm new to voice acting but it's something I've always wanted to try.  I've watched the tutorial video at least twice and I got my first character's lines done to my own satisfaction (for the most part).  Before I go much farther (by installing Morrowind and Oblivion and getting the Construction Set files all lined out) I want to make sure that you guys think my acting's even worth it.

So here's the new (potential) Galbedir (Balmora Mages Guild Bosmer).  Please let me know what you think!  Feel free to be brutally honest.  I really want to know how I did.  Thanks!

Oh, and I'd love to do more characters as well.  I can attempt to put on an accent or something for any other race as well of course (maybe an Altmer since I like the "high-and-mighty" attitudes).  Or do you think fake accents are probably not a good idea.  I'm not practiced or anything so who knows how it'll come out.

Anyways, enough babbling from me.  Here's the files for Galbedir. ;)

~Ari

Going to go with the M audio, hes selling it to me for 40, and giving me some equipment like a pop filter so im gonna go with it, ill post new samples when i get it

 

sirenAri

Hiya everyone!

So I'm new to voice acting but it's something I've always wanted to try.  I've watched the tutorial video at least twice and I got my first character's lines done to my own satisfaction (for the most part).  Before I go much farther (by installing Morrowind and Oblivion and getting the Construction Set files all lined out) I want to make sure that you guys think my acting's even worth it.

So here's the new (potential) Galbedir (Balmora Mages Guild Bosmer).  Please let me know what you think!  Feel free to be brutally honest.  I really want to know how I did.  Thanks!

Oh, and I'd love to do more characters as well.  I can attempt to put on an accent or something for any other race as well of course (maybe an Altmer since I like the "high-and-mighty" attitudes).  Or do you think fake accents are probably not a good idea.  I'm not practiced or anything so who knows how it'll come out.

Anyways, enough babbling from me.  Here's the files for Galbedir. ;)

~Ari

Yay, we need someone to put a dent in all these roles!
 

First off, I hear a lot of hissy noise in the background.  Make sure you're getting a 'clean' bit of noise for the background removal - Langotriel might be able to help you with that.

Second, I feel that currently your voice is too soft to play this character.  This girl is VERY competitive, and is currently trying to become an accredited mage before her Khajiiti rival.  The female Bosmer voice is very loud, whiny, and bossy.  Even when you're trying to hock your wares or give advice, it should come across as pushy.  "Step right up, outlander!"  This should be said with the showmanship and assertiveness of a circus leader.  Be enthusiastic when talking about the firey scroll of burning and death, and sly when talking about opening locked doors - you're "secretly" a thief, after all.  You know what rogues like...

When you say, "You helped (cat girl name)!  I'm not surprised - I know how people like you work.  I should have made you a better offer." you're not sad that the player helped the Khajiit, you're PISSED.  You're accusing the player of just pandering to whoever has the deepest pockets - you're insulting them, not excusing them.
 

Thanks, Smitehammer!  I'll try tomorrow to work on these lines with the attitude you suggested.

Y'know, that hissy noise is not on my WAV originals.  I hadn't actually listened to the MP3s before RARing them .  Stupid free converter program.  I'll have to find another then.  The trial on the recommended converter (Switch) ran out on my machine :(.

Anyways, thanks again for listening!

~Ari

Here, does this sound ok? 

I just want to say that you guys are amazing for taking time off to look at everyone's attempts, no matter how bad they are. Most people would just say: "Yeah, no, this isn't good enough" and you would never hear from them again.

Heya sirenAri, good to see more woman power joining the effort. :D 

I've been recording a lot of stuff, and had recorded for that character a few days ago. Thought I'd go ahead and clean them up so you can take a listen to get an idea of how you might want to do it, taking Smitehammer's suggestions into consideration. Keep reading for this NPC and any others you want, they'll replace my stuff with the better voice types as needed. ;)

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/97npb6vgr4ut4/GalbedirMP3

 

 

 

While working on the sound files I took a break to develop my Dunmer using Langotriel's description of an earthquake for inspiration :)

https://soundcloud.com/blaze-storm-mccracken/dunmer-sample

Hello All.

This is my first time voice acting so hopefully it goes well. I have done one line of dialogue from a random NPC for each of the races which are still available to be voice acted. I repeat the lines twice. The first time is close to my natural voice (Australian mixed with New Zealand) and the second time is my attempt at what I believe the character/race should sound like. Let me know what race/character you guys think i should do (If any). If I'm not suitable then i will just QA test so it's all good :)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hij5fz3jesaucdr/jY2iRyLKTR

Zres

Hey everyone. I recorded the lines for Hides-His-Foot. I think everything's in order. Check it out, and tell me what you think! :)

Are you doing this to make the rest of us look bad? that was awesome! sound quality is good and voice acting is good (as far as i am concerned).

Pester stijmunkey! he needs it!!

Veggie55

Ack, I'm annoyed with myself.

I have absolutely no idea how I did that Dunmer voice on Monday, but I spent hours trying to get it back... Sadly, this is as close as I got; (Assaba Bentus below)

 

So to make myself feel somewhat better, I did a run-through of some of the remaining Imperials; ​Lucretinaus Olcinius, Zeno Faustus and Saprius Entius, just to see what they were like.

If the Dunmer voice isn't what you'd originally wanted, I apologise, but I literally cannot get an exact match on the one I did on Monday ):

No idea why...

Saprius is good.
Lucretinaus has some unclear words.. debt sounds like death and WHAT sounds like WAS (as in german)
Zeno is decent.. but some things are still a little unclear.. some words. I think it is your irish accent that is coming through :P
Assaba sounds like a nord with a smoking problem.. not exactly a dunmer, no. 

But it is not my job to comment on the voice acting.. but since i am the only one really replying i have to. But the sound quality was a little off. It is important to listen to your track after you export them. There is noise in the background but it may very well be dithering noise. Dithering noise is something Audacity slaps onto the track if the recording is low in volume to supposedly maintain the audio quality... whether the trade off (better sound + noise in place of some suffering sound quality) is worth it, i don't know... but it won't work in a game. Make sure you properly normalize you tracks after noise canceling.. then compress the track based on peaks, followed by another normalization. Unless you have some freakishly loud parts in there.. it should come out loud enough overall to avoid the dithering noise.

Try your best.
 

Sirkibbles

A friend told me about this project yesterday and so far it looks fantastic! They suggested I check out the voice volunteer section and volunteer my voice I shall (try)! For now I did lines for a couple of Argonians (Chuna and Miun-Gei).

Not an expert here but it does not sound like an argonian. Unfortunately, it sounds like your voice would be best for a bosmer, altmer, breton or maybe even khajiit. The problem is that those roles are all taken.

But hell.. maybe you can try a young imperial or something. Try and do an imperial and try to do it sounding self important.. you are the man!

The sound quality is lacking, sadly. It is hard to pinpoint the problem, too. It kinda sounds like the overall sound is just bad... what microphone did you use?

Morbulark

Hey, I'm an audio student and some of my actor freinds who are huge fans of elder scrolls want to get in on this.  Is there a comprehensive list of availible roles and the associated lines?  I have a girl and 3 guys, all early twenties, but good voice actors.

On the first page of this thread there are drop down lists of all the characters that are taken or available (sorted by race)

In the second post, you will find the Excel sheets that have the lines. There is also a collapsible tutorial on how to properly use the excel sheets to find your characters lines.

Good luck!

sirenAri

Hiya everyone!

So I'm new to voice acting but it's something I've always wanted to try.  I've watched the tutorial video at least twice and I got my first character's lines done to my own satisfaction (for the most part).  Before I go much farther (by installing Morrowind and Oblivion and getting the Construction Set files all lined out) I want to make sure that you guys think my acting's even worth it.

So here's the new (potential) Galbedir (Balmora Mages Guild Bosmer).  Please let me know what you think!  Feel free to be brutally honest.  I really want to know how I did.  Thanks!

Oh, and I'd love to do more characters as well.  I can attempt to put on an accent or something for any other race as well of course (maybe an Altmer since I like the "high-and-mighty" attitudes).  Or do you think fake accents are probably not a good idea.  I'm not practiced or anything so who knows how it'll come out.

Anyways, enough babbling from me.  Here's the files for Galbedir. ;)

~Ari

I am not going to comment on the voice acting.. i'd say listen to smitehammer on that one.

Sound quality is not up to scratch. There is some noise in the background... if it really wasn't there when you exported, then it is dithering noise. That is something that the program adds to the clips if they are too quiet... i think :P

Anyway.. make sure you select your clip in the program (after deleting excess) and normalize it (after noise removal). Follow this up with compression as shown in the video and then normalizing again (2nd video)

Then listen and compare the tracks before and after exporting. If it adds the noise still and it is loud, then you can turn that off by going to, "edit", "preferences", "quality" and selecting the, "none" option in both 'dither' drop down menus.

hope this helps!

wheelman233

Going to go with the M audio, hes selling it to me for 40, and giving me some equipment like a pop filter so im gonna go with it, ill post new samples when i get it

 

Great! If it is in good condition, that is a steal!

BlazeStorm

While working on the sound files I took a break to develop my Dunmer using Langotriel's description of an earthquake for inspiration :)

https://soundcloud.com/blaze-storm-mccracken/dunmer-sample

I like the voice itself.. and the quality is good.

But you still need to act. It is 100% monotone. It sounds like a robot.. try to sound a little down.. but don't sound like a robot :P

Final Forger

Hello All.

This is my first time voice acting so hopefully it goes well. I have done one line of dialogue from a random NPC for each of the races which are still available to be voice acted. I repeat the lines twice. The first time is close to my natural voice (Australian mixed with New Zealand) and the second time is my attempt at what I believe the character/race should sound like. Let me know what race/character you guys think i should do (If any). If I'm not suitable then i will just QA test so it's all good :)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hij5fz3jesaucdr/jY2iRyLKTR

The argonian doesn't really sound argonian.. and the voice is airy and unclear :/
The dark elf lacks growl.
the imperial might work... 
The nord.. no. I am picky with nords. It lacks a true nord accent. .rolling R sounds and soft barbaric monotone voice.

ANYWAY.. first things..second.

The sound quality is lacking. There is some noise.. when you actually speak, i can hear it. And i can also hear the room... it is best if you record in a small, well dampened space (blankets around you.. or at least a lot of paintings on the wall with a carpet on the floor).

See what you can do ;)
 

Ok that narrows it down to two then (Dark elf with more growl and perhaps a noble/english imperial). I'll get some blankets and try again soon. 

Hi everyone,

I decided to try to help you with the voice acting. But I am new to voice acting and also to audio editing. Also I am not sure, if my voice fits to the Nord I've chosen (or for anything at all ;) ).

Here is a sample of my voice, trying to do Bedraflod. It's all lines he says (3 lines). I hope my German accent is not too strong.
 

 

Slaydo

Hi everyone,

I decided to try to help you with the voice acting. But I am new to voice acting and also to audio editing. Also I am not sure, if my voice fits to the Nord I've chosen (or for anything at all ;) ).

Here is a sample of my voice, trying to do Bedraflod. It's all lines he says (3 lines). I hope my German accent is not too strong.
 

 

The accent is the least of your problems with this one.  The sound quality is low, and not even uniformly low.  The voice was almost inaudible, and what little I could pick out was gravelly.  Try recording the same distance from your mic each time, removing any possible noise pollution, and following the video tutorials on the first page of the thread for noise removal and normalization/cleanup.  Then try your lines with your actual voice.  You're not a Dunmer, Argonian, or Khajiit, so there's no reason to modulate your voice with a gravelly undertone.  Lay the Scandinavian accent on thick, though.

Hi, all! this may be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find the answers, so I figured I might as well ask.  I'm going through the available parts to pick out a couple, but I keep finding character names that aren't on the spreadsheet of lines.  Am I missing something?  Are there hidden extra pages? [M] Imperial, for example, only goes down to names beginning with "C".  Any thoughts? Or are they just not in the spreadsheet yet?

Thanks, guys!

Viper50BMG

Hi, all! this may be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find the answers, so I figured I might as well ask.  I'm going through the available parts to pick out a couple, but I keep finding character names that aren't on the spreadsheet of lines.  Am I missing something?  Are there hidden extra pages? [M] Imperial, for example, only goes down to names beginning with "C".  Any thoughts? Or are they just not in the spreadsheet yet?

Thanks, guys!

You want the xls attachment at the BOTTOM of that post, not the spreadsheet that redirects you to Google Drive. The latter is incomplete.

 

2nd attempt at a Dark Elf. Audio is louder this time but if i get assigned a character i will clean it up alot more. Let me know if i should keep going down this path or try imperial instead.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hij5fz3jesaucdr/jY2iRyLKTR

Heres a little voice clip i did in the role of Aenar the Nord Barbarian.

Im new here so i apologize if the audio is not up to par but i just want feedback on wether or not my voice can possibly suit this and other nord roles.

https://soundcloud.com/delcriram/aenar-the-nord-barbarian-test

 

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Hello there, I am new here! I'm Coltess, and I'm very excited about this project and interested in helping in the voice acting department. I admit, I've never voice acted before, but I have been a done a few similar things.

I worked for two years in a radio station and did commercials regularly, and I currently have a college radio show and perform commercials and PSAs for the University. I've been told I have an NPR voice, and I've no idea if that is good or not. 

I understand you can't really go off of anything based on what I write, but I'd rather record my audition with the studio equipment as I don't really have anything for personal use that's of good quality, and actually that's part of why I am writing right now. I was wondering, If I am lucky enough to be chosen to lend a hand- voice- to the project, what mic would be best. Something that is also a little durable would be nice, but I really don't want to break the bank. However, I suppose I am putting the cart before the horse, but the prospect itself is very exciting.

 

Coltess

Hello there, I am new here! I'm Coltess, and I'm very excited about this project and interested in helping in the voice acting department. I admit, I've never voice acted before, but I have been a done a few similar things.

I worked for two years in a radio station and did commercials regularly, and I currently have a college radio show and perform commercials and PSAs for the University. I've been told I have an NPR voice, and I've no idea if that is good or not. 

I understand you can't really go off of anything based on what I write, but I'd rather record my audition with the studio equipment as I don't really have anything for personal use that's of good quality, and actually that's part of why I am writing right now. I was wondering, If I am lucky enough to be chosen to lend a hand- voice- to the project, what mic would be best. Something that is also a little durable would be nice, but I really don't want to break the bank. However, I suppose I am putting the cart before the horse, but the prospect itself is very exciting.

 

Langotriel has been an advocate for the Samson Go.  Apparently it's the bee's pajamas.

Here are a few more lines from this character. 

Is the sound quality there yet? How does the voice fit in with the Dark Elf character? 

I would love to hear any and all opinions.

Tried out Grerid Axe-Wife. Whatchya guys think?

https://soundcloud.com/shauni-mulder/sets/grerid-axe-wife

thunderblood

Tried out Grerid Axe-Wife. Whatchya guys think?

https://soundcloud.com/shauni-mulder/sets/grerid-axe-wife

Sounds pretty good to me - have to hear from our Nord in residence.

stijmunkey

Smitehammer

Coltess

Hello there, I am new here! I'm Coltess, and I'm very excited about this project and interested in helping in the voice acting department. I admit, I've never voice acted before, but I have been a done a few similar things.

I worked for two years in a radio station and did commercials regularly, and I currently have a college radio show and perform commercials and PSAs for the University. I've been told I have an NPR voice, and I've no idea if that is good or not. 

I understand you can't really go off of anything based on what I write, but I'd rather record my audition with the studio equipment as I don't really have anything for personal use that's of good quality, and actually that's part of why I am writing right now. I was wondering, If I am lucky enough to be chosen to lend a hand- voice- to the project, what mic would be best. Something that is also a little durable would be nice, but I really don't want to break the bank. However, I suppose I am putting the cart before the horse, but the prospect itself is very exciting.

 

Langotriel has been an advocate for the Samson Go.  Apparently it's the bee's pajamas.

Another popular one, but a bit more expensive is a Blue yeti

Blue yeti and the samson gomic have comparable quality but the go mic is 100 times more practical and under half the price. There is no real argument here.

stijmunkey

thunderblood

Tried out Grerid Axe-Wife. Whatchya guys think?

https://soundcloud.com/shauni-mulder/sets/grerid-axe-wife

I agree with smite, sounds pretty good. Two thing the s sounds are a tad sharp be sure to follow the tutorial videos in the OP, and a few lines sound like they cut off a bit early, be sure to leave a couple seconds at the end of the recording

I will walk her through the steps to perfect this.. the accent needs some work and some sounds are a little sharp.. i got this.

stijmunkey

Delcriram

Heres a little voice clip i did in the role of Aenar the Nord Barbarian.

Im new here so i apologize if the audio is not up to par but i just want feedback on wether or not my voice can possibly suit this and other nord roles.

https://soundcloud.com/delcriram/aenar-the-nord-barbarian-test

 

As you said the quality needs work, the deepness of the voice is ok but needs a tad more emotion to it it was a bit monotone imo, but Langotriel if very picky with his Nords lol I would wait for his opinion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8w0f2MKGag

now that we have that out of the way... no. Sounds like a regular american to me. I am not sure how i can really help you as.. i mean.. GAAHH.. yeah.. no.

refer to post 2262 in this thread (this is going by memory.. can't remember if that was actually the post but.. happy searching!)