About This File
WORK IN PROGRESS/INCREMENTAL PROJECT -- SOME lines unouched (by which I mean I fixed synthesised howlers). No male support yet, sorry, but it will come. Probably last, like a gentleman)
"It lookayays like it's tass tea!" Ouch.
This is an add-on for the Spectator Crowds Ultra Edition BSA Voice Pack by @Executaball for the Spectator Crowds Ultra Edition v0.99 alpha 4 (or above) mod by @wpg97541, hopefully unouching the worst delivered lines in the voice pack. As they and others warn us, the quality of machine generated voicing is patchy -- to be very, very kind -- even with the incredible xVASynth. I've been going through this and other voice packs I use correcting some of the most egregious examples by hand. Disclaimer: I am no more than an amateur, so prosody and intonation will be far from perfect but when I'm finshed it hopefully shouldn't hurt the ears quite so much.
Loose files in order to override the ones in the BSA necessary above.
Requirements
Spectator Crowds Ultra Edition v0.99 alpha 4 (any version should do, as no harm should come of using this add-on save mixed up or missing voices)
Spectator Crowds Ultra Edition BSA Voice Pack
Installation
Install with your mod manager, or open the archive to then drag and drop the Data folder into the game's root folder.
Mod managers: It must load after the BSA it partially overrides or there's little point.
Legendary Edition compatible? Presumably, it's only .fuz files.
Anniversary Edition compatible? See above.
Tools used
Lazy Voice Finder https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/8619
SKVA(xVA)Synth https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44184
Acknowledgements
@wpg97541 for the vivid, imaginative writing that never descends into parody despite the amount and the coding that makes it all work
@Executaball for the time, effort, compute power and electricity to make the pack - a vast, scintillating shore upon which my few footsteps appear
Thank you both very much
Notes:
A note on versions: As this is an additive project there will from now on only ever be the updated version available for download. I don't want anyone to see the file size on the page and get their hopes up that I've pulled my thumbs out of my behind and done say, eight lines at a time. I won't have.
A note on ellipses: rather than completely removing ellipses in corrected lines I have, since the beginning, instead removed one full stop and trimmed the length of the two remaining as this seems to impart a breathiness/breathlessness to the result that I think is fitting to the nature of the mod. I am aware that this is subjective.
A note on pace: pacing synthesised speech is not easy so I've barely tried. A lot of lines will get spoken in the course of an average animation set, even with just a small crowd. These good folk showed up to have their say and it should be said without me slowing them down.
A note on laughter: I'm not touching it with a ten-foot pole. If I come across it in the course of events, here and in other voice packs, you'll get the lines as written with only typos fixed.
This is my first mod, and it's not even a proper mod! Wahey!
Updates for the other races lines used in the mod soon. Male subject(s), sibilant consonant snipping and are-you-down-a-drainpipe ellipsis removal thereafter.
The SCVUo Awards (just for fun and to keep me going)
These are for the synthesis models and their corresponding VoiceTypes only, everyone else is blameless
Best Performance Respecting VoiceType and Subject Material
The nominees are:
DLC1FemaleVampire, DLC1MaleVampire, DLC2FemaleUniqueFrea, DLC2MaleDarkElfCommoner, DLC2MaleUniqueModyn, DLC2MaleUniqueNeloth, FemaleCommoner, FemaleCoward, FemaleDarkElf, FemaleDarkElfCommoner, FemaleElfHaughty, FemaleKhajiit, FemaleNord, FemaleNordEvenToned, FemaleOldGrumpy, FemaleOldKindly, FemaleShrill, FemaleSultry, FemaleUniqueDelphine, FemaleUniqueElenwen, FemaleUniqueKarliah, FemaleUniqueMirabelleErvine, FemaleYoungEager, MaleArgonian, MaleBrute, MaleCommoner, MaleCommonerAccented, MaleCondescending, MaleCoward, MaleDarkElf, MaleDrunk, MaleElfHaughty, MaleEvenTonedAccented, MaleGuard, MaleKhajiit, MaleNord, MaleOldGrumpy, MaleOldKindly, MaleSoldier, MaleUniqueDelvinMallory, MaleUniqueMercerFrey, MaleUniqueNazir.
and the winner is:
MaleUniqueNazir, for sounding like a Soul sensation gone to seed and not his vanilla peeved self,
Honorable mention to: MaleSoldier, who also just said what he was told to, every time.
But you were troupers, all of you. Take a bow.
Future Lighthearted Murder Mystery Stalwart Award
The nominees are:
DLC1FemaleUniqueFura, DLC1FemaleUniqueValerica, DLC1MaleUniqueDexion, DLC1MaleUniqueIsran, DLC1SeranaVoice, DLC2MaleSlyCynical, DLC2MaleUniqueAdril, DLC2MaleUniqueLleril, FemaleArgonian, FemaleCommander, FemaleCondescending, FemaleEvenToned, FemaleUniqueAstrid, FemaleUniqueMaven, FemaleUniqueVex, MaleCommander, MaleEvenToned, MaleNordCommander, MaleOrc, MaleSlyCynical, MaleUniqueAncano, MaleUniqueBrynjolf, MaleUniqueKodlakWhitemane.
and the winner is:
DLC1MaleUniqueDexion, for somehow still seeing what's going on. Motivated, I suppose.
Dishonorable mentions to: MaleEvenToned "He's got the line, he's got the line-WHAT THE $#@* WAS THAT?!"
CrDragonVoice and CrUniqueOdahviing for artifical performance enhancement use
Nic Cage Pre-emptive Memorial Award for Nic Cageness
The nominees are:
DLC1MaleUniqueHarkon -- CHEW THAT SCENERY, VAMP BOY!
MaleWarlock -- I think you nailed 'warlock'. Don't let anyone tell you you didn't.
MaleBandit -- Just keep doing what you're doing. I don't know what it is but keep doing it.
MaleUniqueHadvar -- I-I just don't know how to describe you.
MaleUniqueUlfric -- That's some, uh, energy you've got going there, right enough.
and the winner is:
All five of them, they can fight over it.
Lifetime Achievement AKA The 'Tired and Emotional' Legend Award
The nominees are:
DLC2MaleUniqueStorn -- On his last legs but look how he still commands the set
MaleUniqueArngeir and MaleUniqueEsbern -- I've labelled the glasses you two keep your teeth in. Don't get them mixed up again.
MaleUniqueTullius -- WHERE ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE FROM?!
and the winner is:
Denture fixative
Chairs, Just @#*$ing Chairs Award
The only nominee and winner by default is:
MaleYoungEager -- I don't know how you get work in this town, I really don't.
If I missed anybody out... LIKE THE VAMPS, with whom I do not ordinarily associate and now feel I am missing out. You were great, guys! Might not kill you all next playthrough!
Changelog
0.1 Initial release
0.1a ( Comedy Jodphurs Edition )
Fixed VoiceType names in folder structure (you should now hear DLC uniques corrected that you couldn't before. Sorry. HomerSimpsonItsMyFirstDay.gif)
Added Elenwen's model to the roster and began her workload from the below line -- will fill later
Added CrDragonVoice to the roster and began its workload from the below line -- will fill later
Added Ohdaviing's model to the roster and began its workload from the line below -- will fill later
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_00022438_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'nakd'
Added Alduin's model to the roster but don't think he's never not chatting shit or in combat from chatting shit so no Alduin lines unless I learn otherwise
Making 553 lines total (NOT unique) overridden in the BSA for voices covered by it and 278 lines not in the BSA for VoiceTypes probably unavailable at the time -- it'll all work out by the wrap party
0.1b ( Hurled Loudhailer Edition )
I now have a 'sort-of' workflow, meaning I've wrangled having the source and destination Explorer windows topmost (highest Z-order) for easier draggging and dropping of lines as they are finished, SHIFT+RMBing on Explorer's taskbar icon, minimising them both to reveal xVASynth for the next voice model down the list. Wahey! I could automate it, I just don't want to for fear of rusty skills hindering rather than helping (that's why there's no IPA either) -- this has a production line quality to it so I believe it should feel that way and as I appear to be my own boss I can do that.
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_00022434_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'bebeh', 'spreed' when necessary
Making 599 lines total (NOT unique) overridden in the BSA for voices covered by it and 313 (again, NOT unique) lines not in the BSA for VoiceTypes probably unavailable at the time
0.1c ( They Fell Upon The Commissary Like Wolves Edition )
I now have a better workflow: XVASynth topmost, minimising to get at everything else. Why I didn't think of that before is a question for the ages. It does explain why there's no ask for sweet, sweet Patreon munniez though.
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_000223ce_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'deaef-iant', 'lookayay'
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_000223d3_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'lookayay'
Making 691 lines total (NOT unique) overridden in the BSA for voices covered by it and 383 (again, NOT unique) lines not in the BSA for VoiceTypes probably unavailable at the time
0.1d ( Come Back Alan Smithee, All Is Forgiven Edition)
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_000223f0_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'lookayay'
Making 737 lines total (NOT unique) overridden in the BSA for voices covered by it and 418 (again, NOT unique) lines not in the BSA for VoiceTypes probably unavailable at the time
0.1e ( Revenge Of The Foley Cabbages Edition )
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_0001f2fc_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'lookayay' - this one was a toughie
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_0001cd0a_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'lookayay' - SHATNERS, THE LOT OF YOU!
That lookayays like the last of the (female directed) lookayays, thank fuckayay.
Making 829 lines total (NOT unique) overridden in the BSA for voices covered by it and 488 (again, NOT unique) lines not in the BSA for VoiceTypes probably unavailable at the time
0.1f ( The Canny Bet of Nurse Kelly Gehry Edition )
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_000223fa_1) for VoiceTypes not in v0.1, correcting 'okayayay'
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_0001cce0_1) for 81 VoiceTypes correcting 'breests', 'breaysts'
Making 910 lines total (NOT unique) overridden in the BSA for voices covered by it and 547 (again, NOT unique) lines not in the BSA for VoiceTypes probably unavailable at the time
I hate fricatives now
0.1g ( Day For Night Squinters I SAID SQUINTERS Edition )
Renamed 1 line for VoiceType DLC2MaleUniqueAdril (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_00022419_1) - it had an extra .fuz extension I'd somehow missed
(If you've installed manually don't fret, it won't hurt anything - the game won't even see it - and it's only 32kb)
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_000223ad_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'chokeayay'
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_000223d1_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'chokeayay'
Making 1002 lines total (NOT unique) overridden in the BSA for voices covered by it and 617 (again, NOT unique) lines not in the BSA for VoiceTypes probably unavailable at the time
I know I said release rate down, release size up but I forgot to get you a present. Consider this it. Better this than a brick and whatever you want out of the toyshop window. *hides brick behind back*
What's new, eth?
0.1h
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_00022415_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'bebeh', 'babby'
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_0002241c_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'bebeh', 'babby'
Added 1 line (mf_spectat_mf_spectatorcro_00022429_1) for 81 VoiceTypes, correcting 'annal' but little else!
Making 1140 lines total (NOT unique) overridden in the BSA for voices covered by it and 722 (again, NOT unique) lines not in the BSA for VoiceTypes probably unavailable at the time
Tough day. Come watch the rushes with me. You'll just be company though, I'm not changing anything.
Edited by ethethetheth
0.1h uploaded, *Chaplinesque shrug*