Is There Any Way To Access Survivor Voice Lines [Or General Sound Files?]

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Hey guys!

I'm curious if there's any way to access the voice files for the survivors? I really enjoy hearing them and was hoping to use them as sound clips on Twitch haha. I appreciate any inpu heret!

[tenduril]

I don't know, about a year-and-a-half ago I asked on here because I really like Jessica's voice lines, I am kind of in love with her and I wanted to know if there was a good way to extract her voice files as MP3s from the game, some games use them as MP3s but I guess Contagion doesn't because they don't layer well or something. Anyway I asked who Jessica's voice actor was and people made fun of me for how I feel about her and I later called the Monochrome offices to ask cause my friend found their phone number but they didn't help me.

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Originally posted by tenduril:

I don't know, about a year-and-a-half ago I asked on here because I really like Jessica's voice lines, I am kind of in love with her and I wanted to know if there was a good way to extract her voice files as MP3s from the game, some games use them as MP3s but I guess Contagion doesn't because they don't layer well or something. Anyway I asked who Jessica's voice actor was and people made fun of me for how I feel about her and I later called the Monochrome offices to ask cause my friend found their phone number but they didn't help me.

Yeah I think I saw that post actually haha. I'd love to use the voices too, so I might just have to go into Audacity and record them to use as clips, that might be the best bet to do. Hope it works out for you and others though, might just have to do it all manually!

[tenduril]

Yeah I am working on doing this: https://www.reddit.com/r/killingfloor/comments/35d5w6/how_to_extract_game_audio_files_guide/5 right now, your post reminded me. It seems to be working so far, although last time I accidentally did it wrong and corrupted my steam files and had to reinstall. But it was worth it for a shot at hearing Jessica's beautiful voice. if only I knew who had voice-acted her, I know it was someone at the monocrhome offices. I'd pay top dollar for her record things to send to me.

[Reborn]

A few months ago I managed to extract the sounds from Contagion without corrupting any files. It's not that hard, the difficult part was to find the applications compatible with the Wwise version used in Contagion. I can write an explanation post with a link to all stuff required for extracting the files. Maybe when I have more spare time I'd make a simple guide later too (assuming Monochrome won't be upset about it).

[tenduril]

Do you know which of the sound files contain Jessica's sound effects? I don't want to have to listen to all 7000 and the index text file isn't that helpful.

[Reborn]

Originally posted by tenduril:

Do you know which of the sound files contain Jessica's sound effects? I don't want to have to listen to all 7000 and the index text file isn't that helpful.

Nope, they are all written in a chaotic order (well, not really, but it is still a chaos to for a human eyes).

When .bnk archive is being unpacked the files are written like this:

0001.wav 0002.wav 0003.wav 0004.wav

So, you will have to listen through all the files in order to find the needed lines.
Remember that you also have lots of different versions of the same voice line that are used for different situations: quiet (whispering), normal, loud, loud as hell.

I am sure the Monochrome's former sound designer's project files had a proper naming, but I doubt he would be able to confirm that, because he most likely doesn't have the project files anymore on his computer. You can ask him anyway. His contact info can be found on the internet quite easily.

[Reborn]

Oh and by the way, here are some links for the programs I used to unpack .bnk files:

• BNKExtract[github.com] - For unpacking of the .bnk files.
  
• ww2ogg[github.com] - For converting ".wem" files to ".ogg" format.
  
• Wwise ima ADPCM[github.com] - For converting ".wem" files to
  "conventional IMA ADPCM wave file" as said in description of the program on Github.
  
  If you're good with command prompt, then you won't have problem using these. But you can of course use the .bat files to make the stuff work too.
  
  After you have everything downloaded and ready, you will need only to create a separate folder somewhere on your computer (better far away from Contagion installation folder in order to avoid any mishaps). Just take voice_survivors.bnk file and copy it to your newly created folder with the tools. You should keep all the tools in their own folders too, this will make it easier to navigate the mess you have there.

[tenduril]

It's ok I have a sound folder on my computer of a lot of Jessica's sound effects I found sorting them by size and rapidly playing them to pick out the ones with her voice. I know it pretty well so I could usually get through about 100 sound clips per minute.

[zundae]

why not just record the sounds youreself and conver them to mp3 files?

[Reborn]

Originally posted by TicTac WallHack:

why not just record the sounds youreself and conver them to mp3 files?

Because that's lame? Well, back in the day I used to do that myself using Fraps. Muting every single ingame background ambient/noise in order catch exactly one sound I need, recording multiple samples as .avi video clips, then opening it in GoldWave and converting the audio from the video to .wav file. That's just such a nutcrackery. The final result is still not as good as an actual clean file extracted from the game archive itself.

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Originally posted by Reborn:

Originally posted by TicTac WallHack:

why not just record the sounds youreself and conver them to mp3 files?

Because that's lame? Well, back in the day I used to do that myself using Fraps. Muting every single ingame background ambient/noise in order catch exactly one sound I need, recording multiple samples as .avi video clips, then opening it in GoldWave and converting the audio from the video to .wav file. That's just such a nutcrackery. The final result is still not as good as an actual clean file extracted from the game archive itself.

True! I might just do that though with Audacity when I get the chance I think.

[tenduril]

I have all the sounds unpacked now. I found the Jessica sounds I want. I don't know what the policy is on sharing the files though so I won't. However I can confirm unpacking them works.

[Reborn]

I don't think the developers will be happy if we start distributing files right away. But nobody prohibited us from getting this stuff for personal use.