[Asterisk-Users] Re: Zork and Asterisk

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 13:47 -0700, John Todd wrote:
> While I love voice synthesis, I think that you'd gain "legend" status 
> only if you had Allison (or, I hesitate to say, some other voice 
> talent) do the dramatic readings.  People respond so much better to 
> real recordings - I tend to use synthesis only where it is impossible 
> to have pre-recorded phrases, and since Zork is pretty much entirely 
> "canned"....
> 

personally given the genre of the game a brittish female with only a
slight accent might do better than allison.  Of course if you are clever
(set(language) or whatever) and have the user select the voice that
reads might be interesting.  That way you can get a sean connery
sound-a-like or a patrick stewart sound-alike or whatever for some
callers and females for others ...

Then if you get into translations so its in native languages to
different callers ...

Could really turn into something.  But of course you would want to add
more than just zork (and infocomm games for that matter).  A MMRPG game
played over the phone where people can go into a 'tavern' (voice bridge)
and other stuff might do well too.  That way you arent all alone in the
virtual world.


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