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BossStompTV has Hypnospace Outlaw

Mar 12, 2020 @ 6:57pm

No robo voice?

Is it normal that the little robot helper guy does not have a voice? I hear what he is supposed to sound like in one of the tutorial videos, but he doesn't make noise when he talks in the game. For example, when I click text for him to read. The subtitles will pop up, but no voice.

Similarly, when choosing your name in the beginning it doesn't make any noise when I click the button that seems like it should let you preview what the name sounds like in text-to-speech.

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OKNOTOK

Mar 13, 2020 @ 9:48am

Are u a mac player? I encountered the same problem, but I solved it by going into the BIOS and custom hypii voice

BossStompTV has Hypnospace Outlaw

Mar 13, 2020 @ 10:30am

Windows 7. I tried to do that, but I don't have any custom voices available. It says 0 - 0. I thought maybe you had to buy them in game. Must be some dependency I don't have or something.

Jay Tholen [developer] Mar 16, 2020 @ 1:24am

Ahh yeah, that'd be the problem. It pulls from whatever Text to Speech voices are installed on your OS. I think you should be able to add one in Win7 and have it show up in the game.

BossStompTV has Hypnospace Outlaw

Mar 18, 2020 @ 9:05pm

Oh. So. There is Microsoft Anna in Windows 7. It was actually playing just fine all along, just using a different audio device than the other game music for some reason.

I accidentally learned this by turning on the windows screen reader while testing this and hearing a faint voice talking through my headphones on my desk.

Confirmed in the game itself. Sound and music coming out through my default audio device. In this case, my speakers. Then the voice comes out through the headphones. Haha.

TetroniMike [developer] Mar 19, 2020 @ 10:07am

Sorry about that, we weren't able to integrate text-to-speech directly into the game so it has to use the OS.

Kyur

Apr 30, 2020 @ 7:51am

Mystery solved, thanks for clarifying.

I'm currently playing on Linux and I get sound effects rather than voice, vaguely comparable to when a characters talks in many J-RPGs.

Clever trick and nice idea to use the OS's specific text-to-speech tool, but there are downsides to that.

Since the feature does not seem to be game-relevant or that I would actually have used it, I will just play without it.

Last edited by Kyur; Apr 30, 2020 @ 7:55am