Voice Acting - Discuss Here

chris the cynic · Post by **chris the cynic** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:02 pm

I just wanted to say:
I hate my mic, and every other mic I've been able to get my hands on other than one that has gone missing.

I hate all of the ambient noise in my house.

I hate the laws of physics that make everything go to hell whenever I say something with a th, s or p.

I hate the planes that overfly my house, the trains down the hill, and all of the things that make noise.

I'm working on my lines ... very, very hard.

Moonbo · Post by **Moonbo** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:40 pm

, good for you! Let me know if you want our sound guys to review a sample of your new lines.

-Gelo

loony636 · Post by **loony636** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:32 am

Jonas wrote:Actually we got a pretty good coverage of American accents. We even have a German one. The only thing we really need is a Japanese accent - and possibly one or two more females depending on how many accents our current 3 female VA's can cover.

While this comment was made almost 2 years ago, is it still valid? As really all I can do is an English and possibly an Australian accent. And some stupid ones like retarded French and New Zealand. If I can dig out the old microphone I might give it a go, what types of samples were you looking for? Just ranges of accents?

Moonbo · Post by **Moonbo** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:41 am

Just record a range of emotions and accents; choose the ones you feel you can do the best. Send it in and we'll look over it. But keep in mind, we have pretty high quality benchmarks so make sure your equipment is good.

-Gelo

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:53 am

chris the cynic wrote: I hate all of the ambient noise in my house.

Grab a copy of Adobe Soundbooth - it has an automatic ambient noise removal feature and also graphical display of the sound file, which lets you cut out specific noises. It's very awesome.

loony636 · Post by **loony636** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:03 am

Moonbo wrote:Just record a range of emotions and accents; choose the ones you feel you can do the best. Send it in and we'll look over it. But keep in mind, we have pretty high quality benchmarks so make sure your equipment is good.

-Gelo

I've got some fairly high quality microphones at home. When I get a chance, I might just do some recording.

Post by **Jonas** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:34 pm

SnipaMasta wrote:Grab a copy of Adobe Soundbooth - it has an automatic ambient noise removal feature and also graphical display of the sound file, which lets you cut out specific noises. It's very awesome.

No don't, we have sound techs for that sort of work. But we still need relatively clean samples to get a good audio quality out of the end product.

bananaSkill · Post by **bananaSkill** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:40 pm

Hi there,
sorry for bumping this old one but

are you guys stil looking for voice actors at this stage ?

Post by **Trestkon** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:47 pm

Indeed we are. If you're interested, please send (or link us to) some samples. You can email them to TNM(AT)offtopicproductions(DOT)com

bananaSkill · Post by **bananaSkill** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:21 pm

i'll record some new ones tomorrow

User · Post by **User** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:38 pm

Hi!

I see from your website that voice-acting is some way off before it will be complete. I'm just wondering if you have a lot of small extra voice parts to fill?

If so: have you considered using some sort of synthetic speech software to fill in all the little bits and pieces very quickly? The quality isn't too bad nowadays and it might fit the "digital" theme of the mod?

Just a suggestion!

User

Post by **Trestkon** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:16 pm

Unfortunately, the quality isn't nearly as good as it would need to be to fit the rest of the characters. Although we HAVE used it for one of the ingame AIs!

The voice acting isn't actually as far behind at it appears on the site. Look out for a big jump this week

Post by **Jonas** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:47 pm

*Faints*

bananaSkill · Post by **bananaSkill** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:29 pm

Azure · Post by **Azure** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:38 pm

I'm glad things are still going well for this.

Just caught the last vid always nice to hear Rina.