Replace the TTS station voices with community VA

I know it would not make much difference, but a lot of the text-to-speech is distractingly old-tech, and there’s gotta be absolutely all sorts of volunteers with Voice acting experience or VA as a hobby that would love to be part of the game.

Or maybe just replace them with newer open-source / microsoft TTS natural speech models?

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Or just remove them entirely…

Actually can we just do that

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I don’t like them either.

I’d rather see them removed than replaced by more random voice lines. Background voices with no purpose other than background noise is distracting.

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True, distant indistinct announcements would be nicer actually now that I think about it.

Adding actual player’s voices saying dumb things.

The voices could be gathered over the course of a year or two at all the various meetups.

So, it seems like it would be easy to do, therefore, it must be extremely difficult, and bandwidth limiting.

People have this background station noise on? :thinking:

Voicesalads? :thinking:

:innocent:

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Ccp could go and record streamers voices and blasting them in station

armour HACS, Armour HACS, ARMOUR HACS!!!@

I’d like to see them replaced with useful warnings, hints or offers. It would add immersion and could help especially new players to find out about opportunities or dangers in the system/constellation.

The voice acting being done by community volunteers might actually be a pretty nice idea.