[OUTDATED] Acted Voiced Dialogue

I wouldn't mind helping out. Provided my voice would suit the charachters?

I'd be up for a few voices.

You have a seemingly good plan Sot, but it doesn't quite work out that way.

If we're talking about general greetings, you don't neccessarily want go person by person, because many people share the same greeting dialogue.

For example, a Redguard in Balmora might have a specific greeting. If you record this greeting, all Redguards in Balmora will use that the same audio for that greeting. So it's kind of a good thing, because you're essentially getting more than on person done, but you must be very careful what topic and race is already recorded.

Now if we're talking quests (like specific missions), you are correct. For the most part, quest dialogue is unique to every person, so you could go person by person if you want to record for quests.

Anyways, this is pretty much what you have to do, and what makes this process so toilsome and a pain in the butt:

• Go into the CS and find the person's dialogue and the corresponding audio file.
• Record it as an MP3 and a WAV and save as the corresponding file name.
• Make a LIP file in the old CS.
• Rename the LIP with the same name as the corresponding MP3.
• Put the MP3 and corresponding LIP file into the correct folder and you should be good.

And this is just for one audio file. It gets pretty confusing when you have to juggle multiple audio file and LIP names, and making sure not to mix up the names.

So...Sot good buddy...I think you're a prime candidate. I mean, you're the man with a plan and all :)

I would do this, but I'm currently working on getting Morrowind Conversation into Oblivion/Morroblivion.

But if you need help, I'm always here.

I still say screw the lip files for now, just have generic mouth movements anything to speed things up.

I say, if a person is doing voices, he must finish the same race. If a dunmer has three-or four voices(they already have two right now), it will be illogical. However making voices for Morroblivion will be the ultimate victory of Morroblivion, sealing its fate of being better than Oblivion(which I think has already happened with Vis. Overhaul.

I think it would be wierd playing, and hearing my own voice come out of other players :P. But I would definitely do it. I've no experience with the CS really, so, all I could do is record, and upload the voices and let someone else organise them. I'd need the scripts too obviously XD

Its won't be that odd, because you won't be doing your voice, unless your natural voice is very similar to one of MW's actors. Which voices can people do? (Remember its MW voice actors you trying to imitate not Oblivions, some are different).

We are talking full dialog here right? Not just general greetings? I'm not sure what I could do, I guess the best way is to have some kind of audtions for parts?

Actually recording voices wouldn't be such a hard process if you used the Construction Set Extender (http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=36370) It fixes the Generate Lip File button so that you don't have to use the old CS. :)

@Ice Eyes

Nice, thank you for sharing that! That will make my life a billion times easier.

Hey Sot, I will assist you the best I can. Just send me a PM or post here on what you need help on.

Always a pleasure to help. ;)

Dagoth Ur is already done ... and we have the orignal videos (and hence voice) for Azura as well.

I'll try out Hassour Zainsubani.

Darth South Hashmi I think you should be Vivec, if you have time.

Now, why do you think that?

I am not a native speaker (am from Pakistan) and I don't sound anything like a Chimer ...

You used to have Vivec in your avatar, and also you're like  a god in this project. As Dagoth UR already been done, you definitely deserve to be Vivec.

I am ONLY thinking about Dagoth Gares, how do we do that? How can I find Gares' dialogue to read?

Well actually, Vivec does have voiced dialogue, albeit like one or two audio files. But at least this will give you an idea of how Vivec should sound like.

By the way I have recorded all the dialogue of Dagoth Gares. Should I send you these voice files, or try to make them on my own.

By the way recording is fun. I can also do some others, but linking might be a little tough.

Here is the link to my dialogue: http://www.mediafire.com/?qqrhkdnv7knvbdd I've named the mp3 files with the starting of their speeches. Also I've put them in folders according to topics There is an extra wav(Yes, the format is wav,I haven't converted anything. Hope it won't bother you.) which I can't remember where it belonged. If there also is a missing dialogue, tell me and I'll send you.

EDIT:

I've also started Yagrum Bagarn!

I would love to help :D I would especially like to do some sort of Daedra/ God 

this is a quick one I did for Vivec.

 http://www.mediafire.com/?lkc9cs1s125u114

I'm happy to do anything you want me to just ask :) 

I'm very happy to see that we are finally to the point that voice overs are being done. I have nothing to add to this other than that a voice mod for vivec has already been done. I haven't looked into how it sounds exactly, but if time could be saved by incorporating it and it is of good quality, why not use it?

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=3064

I look forward to hearing all of the voiced characters.

Edit: Just posing a potential problem, can the vivec creature be properly lipsynched without any issues?

What happen to doing all the voices by race?

@Darth South. You have quite a bit of fuzz on your recordings. You should use a noise removal tool to fix that. Right now that will be very noticeable in game.

@Si9mth, that recording is a great example of what happens when your not writing with voiced dialog in mind. A lot of MW writing does transfer smoothly to spoken dialog. I am not suggesting altering the original script should be done, it was just a thought on my mind.

Rob has the right idea, the CS naming convention is a more efficient and consistent way to do things.Also I though OB used 64k mono mp3(something like that), can you go higher? Is that even a good idea(extra space for no reason)?

I had just posted a thread on voice acting and David Budreck was nice enough to redirect me here.  If you still need any help on voices, I would be glad to help.  I don't know what race/character my voice would be suitable for, but if it comes down to it, I can make a sample recording for you.  Either way, I love the idea of getting voices for all races and characters whether it be generic conversation or quest related.  I messed around with making my own character and custom voices a while ago for Vanilla Oblivion, but v1.2 of CS doesn't allow me to make the lip files.

I hope all goes well, this sounds like a great idea.

That's a bit of a mood-killer, but if I find I can get the time, I would love to take it up.  My fiance is a fan as well, and he would lend his voice as well.  I'll have to get in contact with a few people I know who are in to the sort of thing, but in the meantime, I'll just watch the forums and get a better idea how this place is and such.

That completely makes sense.  I only just found this site today.  I can understand why it's underground.  But "if you want something done right..." is something I agree with.  If I can figure out how to attach the voice files to the appropriate spots, then I can take this up.  I am not very good at using the CS yet, but I am sure I can find tutorials for it.

Sure, I'll upload a sample or two, with generic dialogue and if I fit somewhere let me know.  I have a few people who wouldn't lending a hand if you need extras.  And in response to David, I was aware of the sound names, just not sure if I plug them in right, then again, I was a dork and didn't save my test file back when I first tried to make a custom character.  So that was on me. :P

I can to a very simular voice of the Dunmer. Dunmer male that is. Do you still need it?

I think I could help out with the some of the raspy ashlanders (singing in a metalband and blazin like its 420), Argonians and Khajiits, I'm pretty good with accents and I think the Khajiit and Argonian accent should'nt be hard and can even be improved upon.

Ofcourse Argonians and Khajiit hardly feature in the main quest, altough I can do Skink from Sadrith Mages regardless, I think I also might be able to do a pretty good Diyath Fyr, highborn, intelectual with just a dash of madness and some other Telvanni perhaps.

I just saw this topic for the first time today, and got very excited. I've emailed about six friends asking for their help / their voices, and read through this topic. I think I get the gist of this and I'd like to try to add some voice (as well as try to convince my friends to do the same. One already has expressed interest). I'm a 20 year old male, 185 lbs. I don't think I've got the rasp of a dunmar or beast, but I think I could do nords and orks.

I'd like to try out for Yngling Half-Troll. I'll record some experimental sounds and upload them.

In the meantime I had a couple of questions:

Is there a good way to access what spoken dialogue a character does have (For example, is there a way I could listen to Yngling Half-Troll outside the game to get a feel for his voice?) I looked in the editor and found where voice files could go, and found some files (those under Oblivion\Data\Sound\voice\Oblivion.esm\Nord\M) (or Oblivion\Data\Sound\voice\Morrowind_ob.esm) . I was thinking that there are more voice files in my morrowind data files: Morrowind\Data Files\Sound\Vo\n\m. I wanted t osee specific lines that Half-Troll had, but didn't know how to locate them, so I guess I'll just listen to generic Nord to get the idea. I guess what I'm trying to say is it would be nice to have a way to access quickly all the files said by a certain character, so that I know I need to record a file and that it hasn't been done before, and if it is already done, I can listen to it... But this may be impossible.

Is there any way we can export scripts for people who don't have access to the game / Tes Construction set? A couple of my friends don't have the game, but would be good voice talent.

How do we give you the sound files? I assume we upload them to a site like media fire and then post a link on this topic. Since I havn't seen that, does that mean people are PMing you their links?

I assume that if a character already has a voice file for a specific line, we aren’t replacing it. (I guess this is a 'duh' moment, oh well).

 If we do a character (say Half-Troll) Are we for now doing just the main quest dialogue or all of their dialogue? I assume you'd want all of their (Specific) dialogue so that you have character consistency.

If the character doesn't have a voice file, are we adding one, even if it’s a generic line (like not one that's specific to that character / that all races say). It seems to me that we should have a person per race / gender doing all of the general lines. Then we should have other people doing the specific characters’ specific lines separately. This would lighten the load of the majority of volunteers. Otherwise each volunteer is voicing a huge amount of general dialogue that really only needs to be done once for each race/ gender.

We could do this by committing a person to each race/ gender (these would be huge roles). Then other people could look up their characters (say Half-Troll, just for the heck of it), and see what quests they are in using the wiki. I think then that they could use the filtered quest dialogue to do only those lines that the npc needs for their quests. For example:

Half Troll’s first quest is Hlaalu Hortator. In the editor that’s: fbmwMQHlaaluYngling. Then I see only his topics for that quest. Presto. I record just those files. I don’t have to record (along with everyone else) the generic files. While this would be a slight (and only slight since the generic voice would provide consistency) hit to realistic-ness, it would save not only hard drive space (less custom voice files), but also time and effort, which are huge commodities on an ‘underground’ site.

I am going to start with Half-Troll, doing only the specific files. If this goes well, and if I have the time and desire (this is a big if: no promises) then perhaps I’ll volunteer to do all male Nord generic   lines. (That is, if this ‘general lines-specific lines’ grouping method works for people.)

Also, if this method is too much weight on the people doing whole races, then we could break that up into two or three people per race, which really would be fine, I’d think. We would just need to make sure we had good communication.

At this point, it would be impractical to do unique voices for all 1300 plus NPCs in the game. However, if we use the General-Specific method, then a voiced Morroblivion would be achievable, and we could always go back later and add more custom files in updates.

Wow. That was a big post. But I’m excited. I’ll get to work on Half Troll, and try to rope some people in on this. Please let me know what you think!

Iceburg

PS. Where can we go (or what can we listen to) for a prenunciation guide for words like Hlaalu, etc?

I prounounce Hlaalu Huh-la-loo(I don't prouncoune it exactly like that but that is the only way I can textually say how I prounounce it).

Here's a test of me doing Half Troll. I really don't have the depth and grit of a nord (which rules out orcs and beast races for sure), but I can do that bit of Scottish accent they have. If you're fine with these samples, I'd love to continue with Half-Troll.

I could also use audacity to lower my pitch, that seems to sound alright, though I don't know how I could add grit.

Thanks

(ps. I'm also definatly interested in character suggestions as well. My brother may also be interested, his voice is slightly higher and has a higher range I think. I'm going to try to get hime to do Neloth.)

Vivec: Thanks man. I've always said Hi-la-loo, and that sounds pretty close, so since its muscle memory and close I think I'll go with it. Thanks man.

EDIT: I am also wondering:

 Can we do a massive generate LIP Files, or are we going to need to generate lip files for each voice file, and then make esps that need to be merged?

FURTHER EDIT: 

I've finished Half-Troll's main quest lines. (Not his side quests yet) I put the voice files into the appropriate folder location (tes construction set confirmed their presence, saying the lines had the matching files. The files would play in the set). However, when I went to half Troll in game, the lines (I only have one since my character has finished the main quest) appear silently. At first they rushed by, but after I corrected the location, they pause as if its waiting for the wav file. But there is no sound. :( Did I miss something? When I try to generate .lip (I'm using the CSE that was suggested in this topic) it deletes my wav files! Mp3s don't seem to work either. I've linked the main quest mp3s that were converted from the wav files using the suggested program: http://www.mediafire.com/?614t9feh84z2aao

Thanks again!