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Karl Heinrich
02-20-13, 07:15 PM
Hello all,

I am currently working on a British voice pack to accompany Royal Navy-playable mods such as "We Dive At Dawn" and the "Med Campaign (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=181770)" (whilst trying to negate some of the issues the default voices have). We will be doing replacment sound FX also, but the focus is the voices.

At the minute we're a pretty small band, but we want as many of you as possible. If you fancy yourself a bit of a voice actor and want to join us then post below and we'll send you a sample script.

It's not just voice actors we need. If you want to get involved another way, we would love scripting suggestions, historical advice and rather importantly, lovely people to test the pack.

With the actual scripting, we want there to be a little humour throughout (without being inaccurate), so each person's recording of certain lines may be a little different and a little characterful - with a few nods to the film We Dive At Dawn itself. Scripting suggestions welcome also - as I say accuarcy is paramount, but humour is good too where it doesn't conflict with accuracy. But this is by no means meant to be cartoonish, like a Carry On film - nor is it "In Which We Serve."

Without wanting to sound exclusive, we're only looking for native speakers from the UK and Ireland (unless you're a bloody good impressionist) as we want this to sound as natural and real as possible. And native speakers, don't exaggerate your natural accent, whatever that accent is, just speak as normally as possible :) Australians, Kiwis, Canadians et al are of course also welcome to join. Whilst I feel like a bit of a bugger in limiting contributions but this is only to ensure it as accurate as possible as I say - but the mod is of course for *everyone* to enjoy when it's finished.

Now mostly the recordings are likely to be done remotely, but where possible it would be great if we could all get together at somepoint and make a day of it (an unofficial Subsim UK meet up if you like). There is a fair bit of recording to be done so it is a bit of hard slog, but hopefully a rewarding one.

Apologies for the long, slightly waffly post - look forward to hopefully seeing some of you soon. It's quite likely that half of this won't make sense, and a lesson why I shouldn't write in a drowsy state, so if you have any questions at all please don't hesitate to ask. We want to make sure this is the best mod we can possibly produce for the community here.

In summary, if you want to help we're looking for:

- Voice Actors
- Script Editors
- Historical Consultants
- Mod Testers

Just post below if you're interested

Gustav Schiebert
02-24-13, 01:04 PM
Count me in, guv'ner!

Karl Heinrich
02-24-13, 02:41 PM
Huzzah! Welcome on board old bean

Lindley
02-25-13, 04:43 PM
I can help I work in a Radio Station so I can do a bit of voice acting
and recording.

Karl Heinrich
02-25-13, 05:00 PM
That's great Lindley, welcome on board sir - that's perfect experience. We're still mostly scripting at the moment but shouldn't be too long before we start the bulk of the recording.

U570
02-26-13, 12:59 AM
Can I make a suggestion with scripting; use some of the lines from the movie We Dive at Dawn?

Karl Heinrich
02-26-13, 04:58 AM
Hi U570, that will be the case, as I said in the original post :)

Kevbar
02-26-13, 09:15 AM
I'm up for it. As a genuine bona-fide RN Submariner, albeit recently retired now, I would really like to help.

"Coxwain, 10 down, keep safe depth, speed for trimming."

Oh yes, definitely up for this. :arrgh!:

Karl Heinrich
02-26-13, 10:25 AM
Perfect, welcome aboard sir. Did you ever get to serve on diesels at all if oyu odn't mind me asking?

One thing you'll definitely be able to help with is pinning down orders. We will have to make a few compromises to fit in with the game's sound file/trigger system but I want to keep it as spot on as possible.

The first file for the mod, the klaxon, has been released here (it's the prototype and improvements will be made) http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=202459

Lindley
02-26-13, 11:15 AM
That's great Lindley, welcome on board sir - that's perfect experience. We're still mostly scripting at the moment but shouldn't be too long before we start the bulk of the recording.

Great let me know when the scripts are finished and I will send you my e-mail.

Karl Heinrich
02-27-13, 06:05 AM
Excellent Lindley, will do. I'll keep you up to date until then, I'll send you a provisional script if you want to make any suggestions.

Whereabouts in Ireland are you from if you don't mind me asking?

Kevbar
03-01-13, 03:48 PM
Hello Karl, I'll PM you shortly.

Kevbar.

Johan Becker
03-01-13, 08:34 PM
Give me a call.
This my business,
I do film, as well as voice over's for film, Documentaries.

Karl Heinrich
03-02-13, 09:43 AM
Cheers Kevbar.

Johan, that's great, we can't pay you though unfortunately, this is very much a labour of love ;)

What accents are you able to do? I'll send you the short sample script if you want to send me some stuff?

Lindley
03-03-13, 08:59 AM
Excellent Lindley, will do. I'll keep you up to date until then, I'll send you a provisional script if you want to make any suggestions.

Whereabouts in Ireland are you from if you don't mind me asking?


Hello Karl I sent you a PM.

guntherprien
03-03-13, 09:08 AM
I'm a regular guy from Manchester,England,so can do a perfect non com voice,lol.

Karl Heinrich
03-04-13, 09:22 AM
Spot on, would be good to have you on board

Grind_and_Click
03-13-13, 05:11 PM
Want Scottish?

It isn't thick, but can thicken it if need.

Karl Heinrich
04-19-13, 06:43 AM
Hey Grind and Click, we would like Scottish contributors and we wouldn't want you to thicken it up, we want real voices :)

The project is on hiatus at the moment due to Real Life (TM) workload, but I'll be in touch when the wheels are rolling again as it were. Any questions, just ask :)

in_vino_vomitus
08-12-13, 02:14 AM
When this gets moving again, I'd love to help.

Karl Heinrich
09-21-14, 06:43 AM
Not dead Blitzkrieg - just resting ;)

kurtz
10-05-14, 08:16 AM
Count me in, I was born in Blackpool but I've spent half my life in home counties so odd accent.

bigdude007
10-11-14, 11:14 PM
Hi guys
Yorkshire fella, ex forces willing to put my voice onto this project when it's up and running.

Dave

ExFishermanBob
12-16-14, 04:21 PM
Quite willing to help. No acting experience, just an English accent (well, I haven't, everyone else has one, of course).

Leech
01-06-15, 11:35 PM
It would be interesting to have a red neck crew ans sound mod and red neck sub...and maybe a yellow sub with woman running the show, or a more serious one for females.. Just trying to market the product. Or DJ rap sub with zig zag torpedoes.. pretty challenging eh? Or even a Cheech and Chong one or Arnold the I'll be back captain with a terminator sub. Or transformer sub ect.. the sky is the limit.

sidslotm
03-17-15, 06:41 AM
I did a bit of work on this for WDAD, I recorded all the players voices with my own, works ok but it is boring when it's only your voice.

Point is, there is not much to it, it will only take a nine of you to re-record the .ogg files , working together will get this up and running on no time.

I used a freebee recording app that will save as .ogg format sound file, cant remember the name but its out there.

shakey.bridge
07-01-16, 03:28 AM
Is this project dead now ?

Rockin Robbins
07-01-16, 10:21 AM
Blimey! Great idea, wot? Best of fortune to you chaps.

One request: "Rudder amidships" to replace "rudder....rudder!":haha::haha::haha:

MK2
05-30-23, 04:25 PM
I did my own British speech mod pack and it is working currently if anyone is intrested in helping me test it PM me. I also will be uploading it soon for everybody