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The most exciting one I've seen recently is Sonantic, a system for generating placeholder audio for game dialogues. https://www.sonantic.io/ https://www.sonant

The most exciting one I've seen recently is Sonantic, a system for generating placeholder audio for game dialogues. https://www.sonantic.io/ https://www.sonantic.io/

mjgs 5y ago
Quite a different part if the audio space, but yes that is quite a cool software tool. I watched the video from the main page. Seems like you could very easily put together a scripted fiction show, with no actors! Also there’s an API and cli tool so you could auto generate dialogue. Not sure how much I like the idea of everything being computer generated, I mostly like actors, I can see it being useful in drafting up something quickly, a bit like a website mock-up, but for scripted dialogue.
- Agentlien 5y ago
  The idea here is not to use it instead of actors for the final product, but to use this instead of existing solutions for placeholder audio. Recording and editing dialogue is a rather lengthy and costly endeavour. In big titles you typically have some manner of placeholder dialogue audio, usually computer generated, during development. The existing ones I've worked with have all sounded very robotic, flat, and emotionless. It makes it very hard to hear how well something works when there's no character or emotion to the words. It also breaks immersion even when you (like me, who works as a graphics programmer) are working on entirely different parts of the game.
  - mjgs 5y ago
    That makes a bit more sense, I wasn’t aware it was for gaming productions. I guess it could potentially also be used to create audio podcast content, and perhaps news content. Have you seen it used Ink which is for writing gaming narratives? https://links.markjgsmith.com/archives/html/2021/04/#42da8fdb-43b4-4a86-bb44-ee778d299175 https://links.markjgsmith.com/archives/html/2021/04/#42da8fd... Found it a few days ago, looks kind of cool.
    - Agentlien 5y ago
      I've seen it, yes. Haven't looked at it closely. There's one thing I've played around with a bit more and find really cool because of how intuitive and fully featured it is: the Inform 7 language. Here's an example source code of an interactive story: https://i7-examples.github.io/Bronze/source.html https://i7-examples.github.io/Bronze/source.html

The most exciting one I've seen recently is Sonantic, a system for generating placeholder audio for game dialogues. https://www.sonantic.io/ https://www.sonantic.io/

mjgs 5y ago

Quite a different part if the audio space, but yes that is quite a cool software tool. I watched the video from the main page. Seems like you could very easily put together a scripted fiction show, with no actors! Also there’s an API and cli tool so you could auto generate dialogue. Not sure how much I like the idea of everything being computer generated, I mostly like actors, I can see it being useful in drafting up something quickly, a bit like a website mock-up, but for scripted dialogue.

Agentlien 5y ago
The idea here is not to use it instead of actors for the final product, but to use this instead of existing solutions for placeholder audio. Recording and editing dialogue is a rather lengthy and costly endeavour. In big titles you typically have some manner of placeholder dialogue audio, usually computer generated, during development. The existing ones I've worked with have all sounded very robotic, flat, and emotionless. It makes it very hard to hear how well something works when there's no character or emotion to the words. It also breaks immersion even when you (like me, who works as a graphics programmer) are working on entirely different parts of the game.
- mjgs 5y ago
  That makes a bit more sense, I wasn’t aware it was for gaming productions. I guess it could potentially also be used to create audio podcast content, and perhaps news content. Have you seen it used Ink which is for writing gaming narratives? https://links.markjgsmith.com/archives/html/2021/04/#42da8fdb-43b4-4a86-bb44-ee778d299175 https://links.markjgsmith.com/archives/html/2021/04/#42da8fd... Found it a few days ago, looks kind of cool.
  - Agentlien 5y ago
    I've seen it, yes. Haven't looked at it closely. There's one thing I've played around with a bit more and find really cool because of how intuitive and fully featured it is: the Inform 7 language. Here's an example source code of an interactive story: https://i7-examples.github.io/Bronze/source.html https://i7-examples.github.io/Bronze/source.html