Text to speech

[Tand3rsson 10]

Hi.

A post is never good unless you first appologize for maybe posting in the wrong place, right? But since I saw the sticky "voice actors", I thought that maybe I'm not way off.

Here is my difficulty, and I hope that someone might have the how to knowledge:

I need ATLEAST 8 different russian male voices, text to speech, for my campaign.

Best option would be if there is anyway to get english with russian dialect, but why not go russian all the way? If this is not possible, just plain english.

Anyone know of a good TTS? Where I can get ATLEAST 8 different male voices? Please help.

Would it be possible to use the conversation system for these 8 ppl? Or am I way off?

---------- Post added at 19:37 ---------- Previous post was at 19:19 ----------

I am not looking for the way to implent the text (using groupChat). Im looking for the sound. Reason I mentioned conversation system in Arma 2, is that I think I read somewhere that Arma 2 uses some kind of system, where you can get sounds... Am I makeing any scence to anyone?!

Edited February 22, 2011 by Tand3rsson

[AZCoder 676]

The conversation system will play sounds that exist. You can either provide it ogg files, or use sounds that come with the game. There is a radio protocol hpp file in the dubbing pbo that lists all of the class names for included radio speech and conversations, but it is limiting. I have not tried a TTS system, but could be useful if the output sounds ok. The best results will come with a voice actor. You can use a tool like Audacity to alter the voice recording, to make one actor sound like 2 or more different characters.

[Tand3rsson 10]

Okej, I think ill go with acting, and altering. Even though getting 8 different from one original actor. Anyone have experience with this?

Thanks for the reply!!