Please do an English Voice-over

[shawnsanf93]

I have nystagmus, and I can't read quickly enough to keep up with captions.

[Sverr]

The devs have stated many times that they won't be doing any new voiceovers. This is too much work, time and money, management and pain in the butt. Especially given the fact that English is not their main language.

And Archolos is a free mod, the devs receive no income for this. Besides, most people who wanted to play the game have already played it. Multiple times.

If the English fanbase makes the voiceover themselves, and if it turns out to be of good quality, such voiceover can be integrated into the game. Such was the case with the Russian and the Hungarian languages. The playerbase wanted it, the playerbase did it. Without asking the devs to do anything. The devs have made their work. They are now back to their own lives, occasionally working on a patch 2.0.

[Szmyk]

Exactly what Sverr says. You can also refer to post by our Voice Director: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1467450/discussions/0/3372657164726491905/

[Szmyk]

The only thing you can try to do is to tweak subtitles settings in System\SystemPack.ini

[SUBTITLES]
Control=1
TimeMultiplier=0.5
MaxTimePerPhrase=0.5
TimePerChar=0.5

[Ninjamestari]

Is anyone perhaps working on an English VO?

[Sverr]

None that I am aware of.
I tried googling about it and the only thing I found was this video. I don't know if the project is still going but judging by the views I wouldn't get my hopes high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTrftt3uglU&ab_channel=Garok

[michaeljamescobb]

Seems the interest level is near zero.

[shawnsanf93]

I'm not talking to developers, per se, although I don't know why they couldn't do this...I need someone {or a group of someones} to use AI to make an English voice-over, so I can actually play this game. I would enjoy a whole cast of voices, but, it's to the point now, that just one, generic AI voice would do! I just can't read the subtitles. I get no enjoyment out of playing a silent game, when I can't do that.

[Sk3ptk]

The AI thing is interesting, I think this game might get voice overs eventually. Good for newcomers, I've already played it.

[Sverr]

To me, an AI voicover would be an abomination. No passion, no effort, probably no editing, mastering etc. Adding stuff like that into a project made with love and tremendous human effort? No, sir. If someone does it as a separate downloadable mod for this mod (outside of Steam), I'm fine with that.

But I don't see the developers ever including an AI generated voicover into the game. That would devalue the efforts of all the voice actors and project managers who worked their asses off to make this game a better game. Who made it sound alive and believable.

[shawnsanf93]

As it stands, my nystagmus prevents me from playing the game, because I can't read the text . I don't actually care if an official voice-over, or just someone who wants to do me a favor. I just need something I can hear and understand.

[Szmyk]

Originally posted by shawnsanf93:

As it stands, my nystagmus prevents me from playing the game, because I can't read the text . I don't actually care if an official voice-over, or just someone who wants to do me a favor. I just need something I can hear and understand.

Would my suggestion with increasing subtitles time work for you? Or you are not able to read at all?

Originally posted by Szmyk:

The only thing you can try to do is to tweak subtitles settings in System\SystemPack.ini

[SUBTITLES]
Control=1
TimeMultiplier=0.5
MaxTimePerPhrase=0.5
TimePerChar=0.5

There are also some third-party Union plugins that can use embedded Text-to-Speech in Windows or voice synthesizer software like IVONA to read the subtitles in real time. Voice is quite robotic but should be understandable.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3198075836

https://github.com/Sefaris/zTTSDialogues/releases/tag/v1.0.3

[shawnsanf93]

thankk yoju

[shawnsanf93]

I put the asset files from the link into my data folder. I have an English voice package installed for Windows, but it still doesn't work. How do?

[X4vv]

Originally posted by shawnsanf93:

I put the asset files from the link into my data folder. I have an English voice package installed for Windows, but it still doesn't work. How do?

You have instructions written in zTTSDialogues README file on GitHubs page.

[shawnsanf93]

I've been looking for hours, and I still don't see anything like what you're talking about. I've also been trying to do things myself. For example extracting the main file, and opening that folder. I found a readme file, but it was more of a configuration file, so I am still at a loss, as to what to do. Please, just give me a step by step.