Custom Dialogue

[Taronga]

Is the dialogue from Analysis Bot, and Commentatron voice acted with special effects placed over it? or is it from some sorta text to speech program. If it's from a text to speech program, is it possible to create custom dialogue to use on custom levels? If not... will the devs add this feature into the game?

[Enderspoons]

It is a text-to-speech program. Erik said that he uses his Mac's command prompt interface to make it speak.

Or something.
The lines themselves are written in an Excel spreadsheet and then automatically processed into voiceline files.

[Taronga]

Since its a text to speech program is it possible to add custom dialogue lines to custom levels?

[bribrobot]

@Taronga haha! While that could be fun, it's not supported for the moment probably for two main reasons --

(1) right now we pre-generate the text-to-speech audio files (so any dialogue updates ship with actual new game versions), so we wouldn't be able to support it until transitioning to dynamically generating the audio in-game (which may have its own licensing & technical challenges to accomplish, but we haven't looked deep in to it yet). So would be a good bit more time to get up and running than most functionality.

(2) I'm not sure it'd be a happy thing to see the story-integrated commentators saying anything and everything one could imagine :D ... but maybe some other new announcer character could speak for custom levels?

[Baryonyx]

What voices are used for the bots? They are really catchy.

[BNT|Frying☆Pan]

Will From Afar for the Emporer and Commentatron, and 'Bad Guy' for analysis bot. i dont remember what Bluescreen uses, or the garbage bots, or the 'Disembodied Announcer Voice'

[Enderspoons]

Other way round, Leotomas.

[Baryonyx]

Will from Afar seems to fit Analysis bot, but I can't find this "bad guy" voice.

EDIT: Now I found it. So they are both variations of the same voice. Interesting. Thanks.