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I used to make promotional videos for video games.
Even if people think they can do the announcing, they can't.
Most even freeze up when it's time to really do it.
Without knowing that would happen.
The rest just suck, and you have to hurt their feelings to point out the obvious.
Look at how bad the audio for that cartoon "The Spot" came out.
Someone was a magic faker, and wanted it to sound "bad ass". A bad player sound engineer?
It was so loud and "bad ass", you had to cover your ears...
The first version was completely unwatchable, due to the audio.
I hope they fixed that.
But they couldn't even admit it to themselves. Some tantrum thrower was in the way of honesty.
This isn't indistinguishable as real or fake, but it's pretty close.
Any opinions?
Low rent voice actors would mean, inconsistency in which voice is used between cartoons.
And inability for us to freely edit the audio. There would always be someone in between.
Who might "find Jesus" and decide we're too evil to help.
Or the opposite. Set up a franchise as the announcer on those videos about real magic.
Book deal on the side.
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NEW VOICE!!! See replay. So from these, which is nicest for "Tales from the Dreaming Emissary: The Lessons of Dance Home"? Not the french one obviously. Link under pic also.
https:\/\/deepzen.io\/#
U kuje the fiendish angels voice myself. Very "storybook" if you ask me.
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Wow, better!!!
Pricey is ok.
I'll put it in the post and let people vote on which voice is best for a cartoon.
Except the french one.
I must admit I don't understand the rationale behind the British accent, other than the fact that it's common with computer generated voices.
A neutral accent would kick up less associations. And a female voice would be more accurate as the dreaming emissary, as most IOB's are female (apparently).
Your aversion to the narrator in The Spot documentary might be unique to people with autism, and their sensory thresholds.
Not the narrator. The background music.
The narrator was ok.
But they had BONG!!!! BLANG!!!! BOOM!!!! STRUM!!!! going on. Loud enough you had to turn down your computer sound.
They got eager to convince the audience it was all real...
I got a chilly reception when I first showed up there, then a touch of fear, and then the Kachora guy showed up and tried to pressure them to switch to his voice.
Saying it was cultural appropriation.
That guy gets around...
Female voice is fine by me.
I'm just happy those voices are so good.
We could use a "team" of voices. Like Fairy and Minx...
I do plan to have Minx scurry out once in a while when appropriate. Maybe following the Cholita around, the way Minx actually does in real life.
Although after Cholita tried to run me down with her car this morning, I might think twice about that.
Pay her royalties or something...
For "use of Minx" of course.
And tell her the witch doesn't look anything at all like her.
(I have face scan 3D technology...)
Kellie on this page, gets my vote:
https://deepzen.io/voices/
William is the voice in that thousand fiendish angels reading, which would also be my choice out of those for male narration. It does sound storybook.
She's good!
It's pretty easy to lip sync with the tools I have. Absolutely perfect.
Not clumsy like you would have seen just 15 years ago.
Can we pick one for Carlos?
He said Robert Redford, so it needs to be like him.
I guess the british accent is out.
Maybe a "Grant" voice too. Needs to sound good when it says, "Yes Nagual".
Cholita only called Carlos, "The Nagual" when she first had to come live with me.
I had to train her out of it. It was too confusing in conversations about sorcery.
I was thinking to give Grant a green outfit, without obviously making him look like a leprechaun.
With his red hair and all.
For those who don't know, Grant was the audio video guy at workshops, and a constant slave worker for Carlos at all functions. In infinity theater, he ended up naked.
And I need someone to wheel out the projector to show the original videos of the tensegrity moves, before using the 3D model from all angles to make it easier to learn.
The cool thing about computers is, once you have a Tensegrity form done right, ANY character can be doing it, with just a drag and drop.
Even 100 years later people could drag and drop it into virtual realities and such.
You scan and fix it for "Carmela", and you could use it at a virtual workshop where you teach the exact same passes they did that event. On a stage.
With 3 "chacmools" doing it in sync. You'd have to slow Nyei's arm down a bit, to be realistic. So it lagged.
And give Reni's some random timing difference from Kylie.
It's kind of funny to watch the tensegrity videos from that point of view. Of how out of sync they have to be in a cartoon so they don't look like obvious computer generated people. But I wouldn't e surprised if there's a setting to do that automatically.
The graphics on the other hand, are so close to real if you set the resolution to 4096 squared and use more than 16 layers of skin defects and other such details, that you have to look really hard to figure it out.
This page:
https://speechify.com/blog/best-ai-voice-generators/
And this one:
https://www.codingem.com/best-ai-voice-generators/
Consider https://Murf.ai (better pricing) and their ‘Clint’ or 'Ethan' voice…or the hundreds of voices and many tweakable options https://Resemble.ai offers as a better (?) deal for other characters. Resemble.ai appears to have a community behind it improving things with really cool enhancements.
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https://www.resemble.ai/ appears to have the ability to synthesize a voice when fed a recording of an actual person. Meaning we could take the audio interviews from Carlos, Taisha, or Florinda and actually create a synthesized voice accurate to each one of them. Or even Kylie from the vids.
https://www.resemble.ai/cloned/
https://www.resemble.ai/fill
https://www.resemble.ai/marketplace/ - they appear to have more available options, or at least previews, than Murf or DeepZen.
Yea, I heard about that...
We have enough Carlos to pull that off.
But the spanish accent...
And those early recordings make his voice sound higher for some reason. Plus, it may indeed be better to have a fresh 'voice' for a new project such as this.
The closer we get to Robert Redford, the less people can criticize us.
So the software is useful for that. Plenty of Robert Redford speaking out there.
So if it looks like Robert, and talks like Robert, what are they going to say?
It's "distasteful"???
Carlos "choose the form of the destructor" himself!
(ghostbusters reference)
We just want to unleash him on the big city. Come to think of it, 3D virtual beings are more like marshmallow men than real people. There's only fluff below the surface.
I'm not a lawyer, but it may be a good idea to consider whether or not Redford would have a leg to stand on if he chose to make a stink about his voice being used in such a way without compensation.
That service could also refuse to create synthesized voices based on famous people without a release agreement.
That Resemble.ai site appears to have tools you can use to alter or tweak a voice, enough to eliminate these concerns?
Sure. Robert altered his voice for quite a few of his movies anyway.
So no one could object that it wasn't a perfect copy, even if it's not what Carlos gave permission for.
How about the very young Robert, in that twilight zone. Portraying death!
Man, that's perfect. And his voice is very different in there, from later.
Screw the lawyers! I've taken on the best. Nintendo, Genesis, Lynx.
Kicked their butt. Nintendo even admitted that later on.
For Robert we could just say, "But he was DEATH!!!!!! Don't you see how cool that is for this application???"
Besides, there's endless star trek episodes created by fans. With no permission to mock all the stars the way they do.
They make a big deal out of mocking Dr. McKoy, or by giving Kirk's pompous speeches. They even make fun of Sulu's gayness.
But at the start of each episode they explain, no one made any profit from it.
So it's ok by copyright law.
The only thing I have plans to charge for are video games, and that's to cover Cleargreen's Tensegrity library usage, with the money going to them.
No reason for Carlos to speak in those.
If anything goes wrong, we'll just be like old Bug's Bunny cartoons they can't show anymore because of the exploding cigar prank. Those just can't be run anymore on network media.
We'll try to minimize the exploding cigars when possible.
From that Twilight Zone clip "there was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on."
It's amazing that that show holds up after what, 60 years?
Humans seem to intuit magic very well.
Even the idea that a spell will produce magic if you just say it out loud correctly, is not totally stupid.
But it likely has to go back to the time when words had more power than they do now.
It's just stored intent, summoning a reskimming to match the original magic.
We might be able to "fix" some magical systems by tweaking them, once we get more credibility at large.
I'm pretty sure the old seers tweaked the Men of Knowledge's doings. Felt sorry for them. And there were many types, so no big deal to tweak the baker's merchandise. Or the mask maker's designs.