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       Has any one tried to make a mod with converting vocabulary and sound together? For instance using base voices that can range from female to male sounds, including accents. so you may have a base of 10 different ascents for female and male voices. In theory if you could get the letters ranging from A to Z  with sounds, then you could get a lot of words if put in the right sequence. kind of like a music program.  also if you could adjust the pitch and speed this would also add more variant. It would real cool if there was a program for modders to make custom voices with eas for npc. Just curious if this idea has been attempted for modding games?

[Guest]

It is not so easy. IPA has 107 symbols (actually 519 but not all are required.)

Each is a phoneme.

Then you need a way to transform the IPA symbols in the actual language letters. Some languages are easier (Spanish, Italian) because there there is almost a one-to-one mapping. Some language are more difficult, like French and Japanese, because the pronunciation of the same symbol (set of letters) may vary. Some are extremely complex (like English) because there is very little correlation between the letters and how they are pronounced (fun fact, English speakers are also the most affected by dyslexia.)

So, the task is not easy at all. Some companies provide libraries to do it (like Google) but they are run on powerful servers and you get the result only by demanding a service.

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