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josie your voice is amazing and you would be a great edition to stijmunkeys arsenal (i hope he agrees :P), if you dont mind me asking what nationality are you?

Are you sure you can't edit?  The edit button is at the top rather than the customary bottom of a post.  Anyway, glad to see we have a few voice actors now.

stijmunkey wrote:

Ill start pm'ing people tomorrow(its almost midnight where i am) i updated the op instructing people to download Thermador's spreadsheet, the man truly is a web wizard that spreadsheet is brilliant! I'll see about getting his links put up properly in the op with his instuctions though that way everything will all be in one place, i still have to clean up the op a little anyways.

Thanks!  Spreadsheets are what I do for a living actually :D  If you want, I can update the spreadsheet to also display a file path for each line for Skyrim (it currently displays only Oblivion paths) but not being very knowledgeable about Skyrim audio formatting stuff, I would need some instruction or examples to build to formulas.

You're doing a great job with organizing the voice acting, thank you so much for stepping up to the task and organizing things.  I added you to the contributor's group so that you can access the chat if you need it.

Hey! I just signed up because I saw this voice acting thread. I've played Oblivion and Skyrim, tasted Morrowind, and would love to help out. My issue is how to pronounce certain names. Sometimes when playing Oblivion or Skyrim I would hear names pronounced, then see how they were spelled and be like "Woah, I'd have never went that way with it." So I was wondering if there's any way to have a consensus on certain pronunciations. I'd be cool with "whatever you think" if it were just one person's dialogue, but if numerous people are talking about the same name, it's important to have it be consistent. I'd love to help out though!

I thought I'd throw out a couple of goofy voices that sort of fit into the world of the Elder Scrolls. I cleaned the audio up as good as I can. I just don't know much about the characters or world of Morrowind, so I tried to do a style that's sort of in the ballpark of Oblivion and Skyrim. I can record any lines for whoever with quite a few different voices, I just don't even know where to start, haha. Will my voice and sound quality be okay for this? I haven't really heard any of the accepted audio, so I don't know how to compare.

http://picosong.com/3WCf/

The first is my regular voice then all of the others are me just playing around.

stijmunkey wrote:

dmoney123 i think yagrum sounded pretty good, i dont think anyone really knows what the dwemer sounded like but i think it matches really well, aryon isnt quite right though we are trying to stay as close to original sound for the characters and its just a little far off from morrowinds original version of a dark elf

Is there an original version of Morrowind voices? I was under the impression that there was almost no spoken word in the game, but I haven't played it in ages.

If so, perhaps there is a youtube example of all the races that you could point me towards in order to better emulate the characters.

So I played up to meeting Caius in Morrowind and got a feel for what he's about. Imperial, older, experienced, tough. I did a sort of booming voice for him that I think fits (at least better than what was already in that audio file in the OP). Any thoughts or criticism for changes? Does it suck? haha

http://picosong.com/3W7c/

Trytonlee wrote:

josie your voice is amazing and you would be a great edition to stijmunkeys arsenal (i hope he agrees :P), if you dont mind me asking what nationality are you?

Thanks! I'm actually finnish, but I've gone through international schooling since the age of 3, so my english doesn't have a typical finnish accent... In fact, since all my english teachers have been brittish and american, and my friends are from all over the world, my accent is really a mix of everything haha. But I honestly mean it when I say that I could replicate many accents very well, such as brittish or american... So which ever way it needs to go, I can try. :) I also made a skyrim nord accent attempt awhile ago, here's a link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qbhspiz15mvwept

Here's also a khajiit attempt hahaha:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2q1191v467pw1t9

I did these some weeks ago. :D

Shadow wrote:

Hey Josie, I've listened to your samples, and I have some pieces of advice, at least I think so. [Smile]

It feels like your voice is a little too exaggerated.  I think if you relaxed it and made it sound a bit more natural it would be better.  But either way we are glad to have you on board!

Also, maybe your voice would sound better with a different race?  I don't really know, I'm just throwing out ideas.  Perhaps Imperial or..... Altmer!  Actually, if there are any female Altmer characters I think that might be a perfect fit.  What do you guys think?

Thanks for the input! I was afraid of overacting but at the same time I didn't want it to sound too flat and emotionless if you know what i mean? I could easily sound more relaced and "normal"..? :) I'll try that next time.
I'll send a few more tries of different races later on!

Stijmunkey wrote:

Ok ive downloaded and listened to your attempts josie, i think the nevana ules was done quite well it matched what i think a noble in morrowind would sound like kind of proud and condesending thinks shes better than others, know what i mean? As for Mehra Milo i think the situation she is in is a little more urgent and were secretly meeting her during that line maybe kind of a half wisper or hush toned a little like you dont want anyone else to hear. At least thats my opinion and i know it would be hard to judge what kind of tones and situations the characters are in just from reading their dialogue but for the ones we do know i think we should try and match the situation as close as we can. As for the sound of the voice i think its awesome but not quite right for the dunmer its a little off as shadow said its perfect for altmer really perfect actually keep whatever you did we can definately use it for any altmer we need to voice if your up to it! As for the dunmer i"d encourage you to keep experimenting with your voice maybe a little lower of a tone im not sure thats a tricky one to imitate the males are easy just really low and raspy but the females are completely different maybe a hint of raspy but not a lot would help, again im not sure but your doing a great job keep playing around and im sure you will get it down and as it stands your the only female so do as much experimenting as you can hopefully you can provide a variety of different sounds. Awesome work keep going im looking foreward to hearing some more attempts as for the ones you already did was there any altmer characters you would be interested in voicing cuz again in my opinion and i guess shadows to that was bloody perfect for a high elf!

Haha! I could have easily made the Mehra Milo one more urgent etc! In fact I did do a few of those, but like I said, I was afraid of overacting it and sounding like a moron, and Shadow even said that I could have been more relaxed? :D So I'm not sure which one of your advice to follow! Or maybe they're not even conflicting advice? o.o I'm not sure! Next time I'll post more "different versions" :)
Also, I'll try altmer as well. ^^ I could also try a more "normal feminine" young imperial voice...Just for fun. Not sure if it'll be usable though. :')

I was keen on trying the dark elves earlier, because it's the most common race and would help a lot if they were voiced. :P But I agree that my voice might suite other races better.

@dmoney:

this is how the dark elves sounded like:

http://morroblivion.com/forums/skywind/skywind-development/3...

And you have a good voice and accent for the khajiit if you can get your voice pitch higher :)

Dmoney123 wrote:

Hey guys, longtime follower of this project. I showed this thread to my friend and he leapt at the opportunity to practice some voices. Enclosed are bits of dialog from Crassius Curio and Huleeya.

Crassius

   Friend tried out a couple voices here, one Cicero inspired, the other a bit deeper.

Huleeya

Any and all feedback/criticism is welcome!

I loved both voices! I think the Cicero inspired one could fit some special character, but not just any random imperial? It preferred the first one for Crassius, but the second one should definitely be used for some character as well! We need diversity anyway. :)

 

Huleeya was also brilliant. My only comment would be for him to perhaps not exaggerate certain words as much. Acting is great, but the elder scrolls series has always been a little notorious for "flattish" voices...And we want our's to blend in. But maybe that's just my opinion? :)

Dmoney123 wrote:

Here are some more of my buddies attempts at a few other characters:

Yagrum Bagarn

Master Aryon

As always comments/criticism is appreciated. If any of these go over well my friend would be happy to do a complete set of dialog.

I loved the acting on the voices as well as the voice itself, but for me the accent is a bit too much? :D I can't recall any irish sounding ( ? sorry I'm awful at recognizing accents even if I can replicate them..) characters in Elder scrolls series. :) Other than that they were good? ;P

Josie the reason i asked what nationality you are is because female dunmer have a predominantly english accent just a bit of critique :)

Trytonlee wrote:

Josie the reason i asked what nationality you are is because female dunmer have a predominantly english accent just a bit of critique :)

Haha, I'll try to sound less finnish next time.

And cinjaxon , I think we should contact the makers of that mod as well! The voice acting was great. :) I heard some great female voice acting there as well, and I definitely wouldn't want to be the only female voice actress (nor would I probably be allowed to hah!)

Josies' submittals were great IMO, though the biggest thing is if they have all of the npcs voiced, afterwards the team could go back and replace those that needed to be updated. Just an Idea for now. and in responce to cinjackson's post, I already suggested the Interesting NPCS mod as I agree on the quality of the VO in it. I am certain that they have already contacted as many people from it as possible. Hoping they get some of that talent tho. :)

 

josie:

you have the correct accent for khajiit, only need to change your voice to the cat like voice in morrowind :)

here is a morrowind khajiit: http://www.mediafire.com/?umu2jzq36a8bb15