WIP: British voice over

[sidslotm]

Hi all,

I have been tinkering with the SH4 vocals and converting them to British. Seems ok and I have about 250 commands completed. I created a manual that will help anyone else who would like to help out with this project.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cryybuyfzd8lul7

I used Audacity to work with and it is an altogether exceptional recording tool and very easy to work with.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_windows#recdown

So if anyone is interested, please enlist :arrgh!:

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2838/aud6.png

[Sailor Steve]

Excellent idea! :rock:

One of my complaints about people wanting to do British (or Dutch, or Japanese) subs has been that if the voices aren't authentic then nothing else counts, and it just doesn't feel right. I'm glad someone took it upon himself to try to make this happen. :sunny:

[Matthew_T_Sherman]

Excellent idea! :rock:

One of my complaints about people wanting to do British (or Dutch, or Japanese) subs has been that if the voices aren't authentic then nothing else counts, and it just doesn't feel right. I'm glad someone took it upon himself to try to make this happen. :sunny:
I'll gladly do some sound files in Pig Latin (isn't that the native tongue of 'Pig Boats?')

Earclay the idgebray!

[sidslotm]

One of my complaints about people wanting to do British (or Dutch, or Japanese) subs has been that if the voices aren't authentic then nothing else counts, and it just doesn't feel right. I'm glad someone took it upon


Hi Steve,

yeah your right. I have done a few voices and they work fine. It's only really a matter of recording say 20 a day to complete the project, it's not hard work, just need help with the different officers. The last thing anyone needs is to here my voice all the time, would drive me insane:har: .

If anyone wants to help, PM me and I'll send some voice demo's to compare volumes with.

[Bubblehead1980]

Thankl youf ro taking up this project.I have yet to really play the Brit mods for this very reason, just can't get into it with non brit voices.Not sure my southern(US) accent would be of much help but if can do anything let me know.Also, please don't forget "ACTION STATIONS!" for when send crew to GQ:salute:

[kuch]

Am so looking forward to this mod. I really miss the speech matching the boat. So much eye & ear candy for the mechanical, but when the British or German crew say in straight American, "Surface the Boat", it just loses a bit of the shine.
Thanks for taking it on.

[sidslotm]

Am so looking forward to this mod. I really miss the speech matching the boat. So much eye & ear candy for the mechanical, but when the British or German crew say in straight American, "Surface the Boat", it just loses a bit of the shine.


Yeah I know what you mean Kuch, I've done quite a bit now but I need volunteers to complete the project else all you'll here is me droning on and on :rotfl2:. I would't wish that on my worst enemy, heh.

[Runnybabbit]

Count me in, PM sent..:cool:

[Bubblehead1980]

Yeah I know what you mean Kuch, I've done quite a bit now but I need volunteers to complete the project else all you'll here is me droning on and on :rotfl2:. I would't wish that on my worst enemy, heh.

well doubt my southern accent(US) would be appropriate for a British sub mod, I could however do my best impression:arrgh!:

[TopcatWA]

Great Idea. Will give it a try. Thanks for the effort.:yeah:

[sidslotm]

Count me in, PM sent..:cool:

thanks Runny, PM replied to. I'm putting together a few tips I learned last week that make things a lot easier, put them up later today.

[sidslotm]

well doubt my southern accent(US) would be appropriate for a British sub mod, I could however do my best impression:arrgh!:

A real good plum in the mouth (John Mills) Eaton accent, lol, even I can't do that. :haha:

By all means have a go Bubbs, more the merrier, try a few and see what they sound like, add a bit of colour.

I did think about putting a bit of rhyming slang into the files, colour it up a bit, :D

[Sledgehammer427]

I'd love to help, but my cockney accent is terrible, and thats the best accent I've got....
Because I dont think anyone wants a submarine full of one liners from Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, or Monty Python.

If you wanted an english speaking russian accented crew, though, I'm your man.

[sidslotm]

A few Tips on recording.

When you find the files containing the speech recordings, copy the whole folder "Speech" and
contents into Audacity as backups, best to work from these files from here on in. You will only
need to work on one folder inside the Speech Directory, I have been doing "1"
SH4/Data/Sound/Speech

note: The recordings are Labled ChE_K ....ChE_P ....ChE_S and so on.

note: There are some cheering sound files, I ignored these.

Create a folder on your desktop for each set to save your work in.
This way you can do a cross check count on how your recordings are progressing
and that you have the right number. I then deleted that batch of original recordings.

As you can see there are nine speech folders 1 to 9, right now I'm not entirely sure
on how or where the recordings should be placed. If you come up with an ideas please post them here.

[Bubblehead1980]

I think a "bloody hell" would be appropriate when a depth charge explodes or damage is taken lol

[sidslotm]

I think a "bloody hell" would be appropriate when a depth charge explodes or damage is taken lol

Well Bubbs all I can say about this, you made me laugh this morning :har: thanks

could do with a couple more British vocal voluteers

[White Owl]

Well I ain't shy about sharing my voice with anybody willing to listen... but I live on the wrong side of the pond for this project. :-?

[sidslotm]

Well I ain't shy about sharing my voice with anybody willing to listen... but I live on the wrong side of the pond for this project.


Thanks for the offer white owl, Brits are a bit thin on the ground right now, lol, their watching the rugby. :rotfl2:

[sidslotm]

BUMP :up:

I have recorded 1000 commands, but still need some volunteers before this can move on, help.

Good strong Welsh, Scot, Irish accents as well as Brummie, Scouse and Geordie, even old Etonian officers.

[Arlo]

BUMP :up:

I have recorded 1000 commands, but still need some volunteers before this can move on, help.

Good strong Welsh, Scot, Irish accents as well as Brummie, Scouse and Geordie, even old Etonian officers.

There (edit) *was* a snippet of me doing my best of all those accents on the home page of www.fleetboatsim.com (http://www.fleetboatsim.com) (edit) I've since removed it per request - ahem).

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

Do you still need British voices for your conversion, which btw, i am very pleased to see happening?

I have a friend who was a career officer in the British Merchant service, he would be a capital choice if he is willing but i wanted to ask you first to see if you still needed help.

He would be very authentic for sure.

[sidslotm]

Do you still need British voices for your conversion, which btw, i am very pleased to see happening?

I have a friend who was a career officer in the British Merchant service, he would be a capital choice if he is willing but i wanted to ask you first to see if you still needed help.

He would be very authentic for sure.

yes, that would be great, thanks.

if he only did a few, say 25 to 50, that would be cool, :rock:

[horzaman]

I'm interested in helping. so Interested i joined the forum :) I'm just downloading the British Med campaign mod so this would be a useful addition :)

I'm From England and living in Wales. Also my housemates should be interested in doing some voice actin as a fair few of us play the game. One of them can do an awesome scottish impression. One of my friends has a strong Black country accent and is trying to join the RN so I might be able to bend his arm.

I've sent you a PM :)

[sidslotm]

I'm interested in helping. so Interested i joined the forum :) I'm just downloading the British Med campaign mod so this would be a useful addition :)

I'm From England and living in Wales. Also my housemates should be interested in doing some voice actin as a fair few of us play the game. One of them can do an awesome scottish impression. One of my friends has a strong Black country accent and is trying to join the RN so I might be able to bend his arm.

I've sent you a PM :)

Hi and welcome to subsim

http://www.mediafire.com/?cryybuyfzd8lul7

this should get you under way.
select a file group to record eg: ChE_K and off you go, immortalized. :haha:

[keltos01]

speak with a plum in the mouth ;) :haha:

oops sorry ! ;)

keltos

[sidslotm]

speak with a plum in the mouth ;) :haha:

oops sorry ! ;)

keltos

"not round here guv" :D (best Michael Cain voice)