Timmy Posted April 27, 2014 Report Share Posted April 27, 2014 I've experimented with putting fights through free browser-based text-to-speach utilities and the results are good enough to listen to a fight without it sounding stupid. I wrote to Mike about it and he says he might be interested in implementing a "listen to fight" option as a new alternative if there's a practical way to use some of this free software on the Tycoon site. Does anyone here have any technical knowledge about this? My knowledge is limited. I'm pretty sure open-source/freeware software can be found, but is there a way to implement it without requiring users to download files or run add-ons? EDIT: -Example.. http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/texttospeech_output_files/0049272001398642480/1883362.mp3 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Posted April 27, 2014 Report Share Posted April 27, 2014 I like the idea but will be hard to implement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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markyosullivan Posted April 27, 2014 Report Share Posted April 27, 2014 I've experimented with putting fights through free browser-based text-to-speach utilities and the results are good enough to listen to a fight without it sounding stupid. I wrote to Mike about it and he says he might be interested in implementing a "listen to fight" option as a new alternative if there's a practical way to use some of this free software on the Tycoon site. Does anyone here have any technical knowledge about this? My knowledge is limited. I'm pretty sure open-source/freeware software can be found, but is there a way to implement it without requiring users to download files or run add-ons? Would it not just be a sound file (the recorded voice commentary) linked to a button in the fight commentary page? Or maybe there's sound players out there which you could put at the top of the fight commentary page and then just link in the sound file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy Posted April 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2014 Microsoft Sam? No. http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/texttospeech_output_files/0049272001398642480/1883362.mp3 Would it not just be a sound file (the recorded voice commentary) linked to a button in the fight commentary page? Or maybe there's sound players out there which you could put at the top of the fight commentary page and then just link in the sound file. Well yes, something exactly like this, but I'm looking for someone who knows exactly how to do it. It needs to be so that Mike can set it up and forget about it. If it needs constant manual updating that's no good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Well yes, something exactly like this, but I'm looking for someone who knows exactly how to do it. It needs to be so that Mike can set it up and forget about it. If it needs constant manual updating that's no good. That's not possible unless someone knows how the fight commentary is produced, the only person who knows that is Mike. Like it has to exactly match the text commentary so when a fighter shoots for a takedown, then there should be a sound file of commentary about a fighter shooting in for a takedown added to the fight commentary audio file which will contain the whole audio of the fight. The best way to go about it, is probably to go for a post fight audio commentary, like for some of the best fights in MMA Tycoon history and then post them on the forums, whoever is the best 2 commentators should then record themselves saying the lines that everyone wants in the audio commentary like "He's shooting in for the takedown but he's not quick enough to get a hold of him" You have to consider that an automatically produced audio commentary will also have to take into consideration the fighter's first names and surnames, will these be included in the audio commentary? Edit Just listened to your example audio commentary clip, it sounds really robotic which is why I think getting recordings is better but would be probably a lot harder to implement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Even though it will be hard to implement I think it worths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelPenn Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 I have been looking for a quality writer to do pre fight, live fight blow by blow action and post fight write ups to create high quality audio commentary for our orgs as we have two guys that want to do the voices. If someone can write consistently for me we can have a fun audio section of this game. I will pay top dollar for this writer to be consistent for our audio commentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 I have been looking for a quality writer to do pre fight, live fight blow by blow action and post fight write ups to create high quality audio commentary for our orgs as we have two guys that want to do the voices. If someone can write consistently for me we can have a fun audio section of this game. I will pay top dollar for this writer to be consistent for our audio commentary. Personally I think the audio commentary could evolve into a radio show for MMA Tycoon. I remember the old one which was about a couple years ago but with Listerman doing top quality write ups for MMA Hype perhaps he'd like the MMA Hype name to evolve into audio commentary as well? MMA Hype is already established and like by numerous forum users, of course this would need approval from Listerman himself. Perhaps Listerman would want to help out with it as well? I'm happy to help out with the audio, I've got a good headset which has a pretty good quality mic so that should help, just hope everyone would be able to understand me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy Posted April 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 This idea is not about radio or recording real voices. Please make a new topic to discuss recording one-off voice commentaries because I'm trying to find help with fully automatic synthetic voice replay of the existing text file the game already creates for every fight. I don't care if it sounds robotic, I just think it's fun and convenient to listen rather than read, and I believe that there must be an easy way to implement this with the right software. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyosullivan Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 Here's a text-to-speech project on Github, there's a couple forks which is people just taking the code and tweaking it. All the code is there, unfortunately I couldn't find a demo of it. To get it to work you might have to convert the whole fight commentary to 1 long string and then add that string to this text-to-speech program. https://github.com/kripken/speak.js 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMATycoon Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 I've always wanted to do this, with some sort of browser plugin. I would really appreciate it if someone could do a little research and try and get this worked out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy Posted July 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Bump. Just in case there's someone with the skills to help who didn't see this post before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbob Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Hmmmm sounds interesting, but i dont know anything about coding to do research on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombex Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Bump. Just in case there's someone with the skills to help who didn't see this post before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 I nominate Esiah Xavier as a commentator. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjornmma1 Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 I nominate Esiah Xavier as a commentator. I nominate Stewie from 'Family Guy' as a commentator. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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