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• gmo

  August 2015

  Hi Snebjorn!
  
  Yes, I'm very interested in your Python script. It would be terrific to get different accents and nationalities into our temp voice audio. If you have time, I'd appreciate it!
  
• Snebjorn

  August 2015 edited August 2015

  Cool - will get it organised so it's usable by other people - I have a very busy weekend ahead of me here, so it probably won't happen until Monday.
• Snebjorn

  August 2015

  Here's a link to the script in its current form - error handling could definitely be better, but it gets the job done. I'll write a description of  how to use it later.

  
  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6457013/AdventureCreator2CereProc.py
• Snebjorn

  August 2015

  Well, might as well just do it now ...

  
  

  First of all, you need to get a developer account from CereProc - instructions on their web site.

  
  

  Then set your account credentials near the top of the script, define the name of the player character (AC expects the audio files to be named "Player*" rather than the character name - the file names in the script sheet won't work) and define which CereProc voice to use for each character (voices can be tested directly on their web page) - this version of the script is set up to work with the characters from the 3D demo scene.

  
  

  Export the script sheet from AC's speech editor, then feed this text file as a command line parameter to the script, like this:

  
  

  python AdventureCreator2CereProc.py demo.txt

  
  

  Ogg files are by default downloaded to a "Speech" subdirectory, indvidual text lines are put into text files in the "Text" subdirectory. This is used to only retrieve new or updated speech lines.

  
  

  Hmmm ... that's really it. Let me know if you have any questions.
• Snebjorn

  August 2015

  And this obviously requires you to have the python interpreter installed! :-)

  
  
• gmo

  August 2015

  Thanks! I downloaded your .py file and will experiment with it.
  Does this all need to be done in a particular folder?
  
• Snebjorn

  August 2015

  By default it will write the audio files to a "Speech" subdirectory, so I suppose you could run it from a "Resources" folder inside a Unity project, but I just manually copy the files whenever I update dialogue text.
• Snebjorn

  September 2015 edited September 2015

  AC v.1.48 breaks this - will update the script ASAP.
• Snebjorn

  September 2015 edited September 2015

  Have updated the script to work with AC v.1.48 (and removed the original version as it doesn't work any more).

  
  

  Here's a short example - game prologue, David feeling sorry for himself, placeholder image, music by yours truly.

  
  

  https://youtu.be/VOqMp93ck4g
  

  
  

  Again: obviously not for production use, but gets some voice audio into the game during development almost without effort.

  
  

  Will polish and upload the new version of the script if anyone's interested.
• Snebjorn

  September 2015 edited September 2015

  Oh, just to make one thing clear: this isn't confined to cut scenes, it works with conversations too.

  
  

  Perhaps not the best example I chose for the video ...   :O)
• dxmachina

  September 2015

  Wow - that sounds significantly better than I would have expected. If you don't mind posting the script again I may give this a go.
• Snebjorn

  September 2015

  No problem. Will try and get a new version online within the next couple of days.

  
  
• Snebjorn

  September 2015

  Okay - the new version is up:

  
  

  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6457013/AdventureCreator2CereProc.zip

  
  

  I've changed a couple of things, so here's an updated set of instructions:

  
  

  First of all, you need to get a developer account from CereProc - instructions on their web site.
  

  
  

  Then set your account credentials near the top of the CereProcConfig script and define which CereProc voice to use for each character (voices can be tested directly on their web page).

  
  

  Export the script sheet from AC's speech editor, then feed this html file as a command line parameter to the script, like this:

  
  

  python AdventureCreator2CereProc.py demo.html

  
  

  The script then chews through the file, outputting progress like along the way.

  
  

  Wav files are by default downloaded to a "Speech" subdirectory, indvidual speech lines are put into text files in the "Text" subdirectory. This is used to only retrieve new or updated speech lines.

  
  

  After the files have been downloaded, I recommend normalizing them to a common loudness level. For these files that are only used during development, a quick solution is the normalize command line tool (http://normalize.nongnu.org/)

  
  

  Once that's done, the wav files can be copied to the Resources/Speech folder in your AC project and you should be up and running.

  
  

  Error handling in the script is almost non-existent (and remember: this is the polished version!), but it gets the job done for me - let me know if you run into any problems or have any questions! :-c
• Snebjorn

  September 2015

  ... and you also need to have a working Python interpreter on your system, of course!

  
  

  Normal output during processing looks like this:

  
  

  SPEECH LINE START:

  Character: Skipper

  Filename: Skipper14

  SPEECH LINE END Text: 'Have a great stay.'

  READY TO PROCESS SPEECH LINE

  {'status': '200', 'content-length': '326', 'x-powered-by': 'PHP/5.3.29', 'server': 'nginx/1.8.0', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'date': 'Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:23:59 GMT', 'access-control-allow-origin': '*', 'access-control-allow-headers': 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'}

  <?xml version="1.0"?>

  <speakExtendedResponse>

       <fileUrl>https://cerevoice.s3.amazonaws.com/Giles48000176a43b0b64a8b4a9c2a237a975230e65.wav</fileUrl>;

       <charCount>31</charCount>

       <resultCode>1</resultCode>

       <resultDescription>Successful Synthesis</resultDescription>

       <metadataUrl />

  </speakExtendedResponse>

  Audio file URL: https://cerevoice.s3.amazonaws.com/Giles48000176a43b0b64a8b4a9c2a237a975230e65.wav
• dxmachina

  September 2015

  Looks nicely done! Really appreciate you sharing it. 
• kici

  March 2016 edited March 2016

  I took a slightly different approach by using " EasyVoice"
  Unity asset
  
  Does the deed.
• RobertLarkin

  March 2021

  Let's have a look at new text to speech version https://texttospeech.onl. This gives you unlimited and free access to use in multiple languages.