Wrestler entrance announcements

[Obediah_Iscariot]

Anyone know any good Text-To-Speech apps (desktop or mobile) which I can use to add wrestler introduction announcements to their entrance music in FPWW?

Been looking for a while, but can't find any apps which display enough emotion, even if I try tricking it with the way I am spelling names to get the best emphasis out of them!

[sofia ciel]

text-to-speech is inherently emotionless because accurately recreating human inflection isn't really the point... it's for accessibility and/or making fun of how Microsoft Sam would pronounce "soi" as a strange bugged noise, and "crotch" as "crow's nest"

Not really sure where to look specifically... but, why not look for asset rips from one of the WWE games, or another sports game that has a large library of names? Or figure out how to do it yourself.

[Shadow Master]

I could record some voice clips for you. You've already heard a few of my samples.

[Obediah_Iscariot]

Originally posted by dank kushrenada:

text-to-speech is inherently emotionless because accurately recreating human inflection isn't really the point... it's for accessibility and/or making fun of how Microsoft Sam would pronounce "soi" as a strange bugged noise, and "crotch" as "crow's nest"

Not really sure where to look specifically... but, why not look for asset rips from one of the WWE games, or another sports game that has a large library of names? Or figure out how to do it yourself.

Yes, I am aware that most text-to-speech software is for accessibility purposes.

I would not do it myself as my voice is not right for ring announcing!

I considered ripping sounds from WWE games, but the custom wrestlers I have, have such varied names that those games could not produce names close enough.

[Obediah_Iscariot]

Originally posted by Request Maker:

I could record some voice clips for you. You've already heard a few of my samples.

That is a very kind offer. I have not actually heard you announce before. Any links to your stuff?

[Shadow Master]

Originally posted by Obediah_Iscariot:

Originally posted by Request Maker:

I could record some voice clips for you. You've already heard a few of my samples.

That is a very kind offer. I have not actually heard you announce before. Any links to your stuff?

I did have a video that was on the old Fire Pro Archive Youtube channel (before NJPW sent a few copyright strikes for some of their themes I uploaded).

If you'd like, I can record some new lines. Just leave a list of calls/commentary/sentences you'd like to hear and I'll upload the recordings to google drive.

[Obediah_Iscariot]

Originally posted by Request Maker:

Originally posted by Obediah_Iscariot:

That is a very kind offer. I have not actually heard you announce before. Any links to your stuff?

I did have a video that was on the old Fire Pro Archive Youtube channel (before NJPW sent a few copyright strikes for some of their themes I uploaded).

If you'd like, I can record some new lines. Just leave a list of calls/commentary/sentences you'd like to hear and I'll upload the recordings to google drive.

I will do, thank you. I will put a list together.
Basically I just need names. I do not use mods, so the music when the wrestlers enter is the same as the music when they win a match, so it would sound silly to have a whole intro with weight etc. However the consistent thing when wrestlers enter or when they win a match is that their name gets announced while their music plays.
I will get back to you. Thanks again

[Obediah_Iscariot]

Erm Request Maker... Tried to add you as a friend but got a message saying communication between us is blocked. Maybe we had a disagreement a long, long time ago and the admins blocked us.
I don't remember us having one, but I did used to have a few disagreements with people when I first got this game.

[Shadow Master]

Originally posted by Obediah_Iscariot:

Erm Request Maker... Tried to add you as a friend but got a message saying communication between us is blocked. Maybe we had a disagreement a long, long time ago and the admins blocked us.
I don't remember us having one, but I did used to have a few disagreements with people when I first got this game.

You have been added as a friend, Obediah.

I recorded this raw sample of my voice for a friend's e-fed this morning:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e0t7VPqI-b03NaSg56rC3M3XwwlP3rOj

[Obediah_Iscariot]

Thanks.
I will give that link a look when I get home later.

[sofia ciel]

Originally posted by ;2565312892644331572:

Originally posted by Obediah_Iscariot:

That is a very kind offer. I have not actually heard you announce before. Any links to your stuff?

I did have a video that was on the old Fire Pro Archive Youtube channel (before NJPW sent a few copyright strikes for some of their themes I uploaded).

Oh, that was you?! That channel was a good resource for early/mid-90s themes. A shame it got copyright struck...

[Shadow Master]

Originally posted by dank kushrenada:

Originally posted by ;2565312892644331572:

I did have a video that was on the old Fire Pro Archive Youtube channel (before NJPW sent a few copyright strikes for some of their themes I uploaded).

Oh, that was you?! That channel was a good resource for early/mid-90s themes. A shame it got copyright struck...

Yes, the channel was doing fine when it was just OST/BGM tracks from the older games.

Then I started importing/ripping the actual albums on to youtube for fun and the channel took off. About the time I started posting Tetsuya Naito's Stardust album and a modern greatest hits compilation album is when the copyright strikes started happening.

I think it's only 4 strikes and your account is terminated. Basically 2000+ videos were gone in 5 minutes.

[Shadow Master]

Forgot about this other sample video I recorded a few years ago:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198300785269/videos/

[Obediah_Iscariot]

Originally posted by Request Maker:

Forgot about this other sample video I recorded a few years ago:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198300785269/videos/

Just listened to your samples. Very awesome and professional sounding!

[amsterDan]

It seems like you may have found a better option, having someone actually announce for you, but my one little tip with text-to-speech for ring announcer voices is to actually try out a few non-English voices. The charming mispronunciations can often distract from the flat emotionless nature of text-to-speech and make it sound a little more lively and natural, or at the very least kind of goofy and amusing. I made a few using specifically Spanish and Hungarian voices and it turned out reasonably enough, at the very least better than the English ones sounded.

[Shadow Master]

I just recorded 100 Wrestler names for Obediah.

Admittedly, I'm not a seasoned WWE announcer or anything, but if anyone would like to hear my second attempt at Wrestler name announcing, you can check out my voices (and alternate takes) here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e0t7VPqI-b03NaSg56rC3M3XwwlP3rOj

Look for the file "OBEDIAH". Includes alternate takes and other voices.