The results are in for poll #21. The winning voices are:
- Bioshock: Elizabeth
- GTA 4: Niko
- GTA 5: Franklin
- GTA 5: Trevor
- Red Dead Redemption 2: Arthur
- Resident Evil: Lady Dimitrescu
This does mean that there are now an additional five new games supported by the app. I've already sorted out the theme asset fil...
2021-06-30 09:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostxVAScribe is the first companion app for xVASynth. This small tool is for use in creating/improving speech datasets, for use during model training.
There are two primary ways you can use the app:
1) For adjusting existing da...
2021-06-29 12:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostClosing off poll #20, the winning voices are as follows:
- Skyrim: MaleBandit
- Skyrim: MaleEvenTonedAccented
- Skyrim: MaleDrunk
- Cyberpunk: Takemura
- Fallout 3: President Eden
- Oblivion / Morrowind: Male Nords
These came out well!
Keep your eyes out for the next poll, because I think it will be a reall...
2021-06-24 08:29:42 +0000 UTC View PostIf you recall the first release of the C&C: Kane voice, I mentioned plans to research some additional data pre-processing techniques, to help improve the training data for voice models. This was motivated by unclean audio such as the live action cutscenes from which I pulled data for Kane. The background humming and computer beeping in the t...
2021-06-22 10:09:36 +0000 UTC View Post
A somewhat larger interim update, this includes some requested voices:
- Dragon Age: Cailan
- Dragon Age: Duncan
- Dragon Age: Morrigan
- Fallout 3: Three Dog
- Fallout 3: Three Dog (radio voice)
- Mass Effect: Liara
- Mass Effect: Tali
- Skyrim: Riekling
- Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas: K-DST host
I've also ...
2021-06-20 15:31:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe next round of voices is here! 6 from the poll:
- Skyrim: Neloth
- Skyrim: Delvin
- Cyberpunk: Alt
- Cyberpunk: Delamain
- Fallout New Vegas: Arcade
- Fallout New Vegas: FemaleAdult03
as well as two public requests:
- Final Fantasy: Sazh
- Fallout New Vegas: MaleAdult04
They all came out fairly we...
Getting back to the voice training, there was also a spike in requests. Most were private, but there are 5 here which were not:
- Fallout New Vegas: MaleAdult03
- Mass Effect: Miranda
- Dragon Age: Zevran
- Final Fantasy: Hope
- Final Fantasy: Lightning
There is a new game (series) supported: Final Fantasy
To use mo...
2021-06-08 19:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostA long time coming, the next version of the app is nearing release. This is by far the largest single update to the app (except for the v0.1 -> v1.0, of course). There's a couple of big new features, but let's get the changelog out of the way.
- Added a speech-to-speech mode
- Added a third party Plugin system. Dev...
A fresh new batch of voices is here! 6 voices this time:
- Skyrim: Harkon
- Skyrim: Ancano
- Skyrim: Gelebor
- The Witcher: Keira Metz
- Cyberpunk: Claire
- Skyrim: Garan
Keep your eyes peeled over the next day or two for a big pre-release for the next version of the app.
Quick update with three requested voices:
- Fallout 4: Dara Hubbell
- Skyrim: MaleElfHaughty
- Fallout New Vegas: MaleAdult02
The next round of voices is here:
- Skyrim: MaleCoward
- Fallout 3: Amata
- Cyberpunk: Panam
- Witcher: Zoltan Chivay
- Witcher: Cerys
- Fallout New Vegas: Raul
- Oblivion/Morrowind: Male Redguards
There are a few requests on the way also. This one had a bigger focus on some of the other games, to give them some...
2021-05-22 18:41:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Quick update while I finish the poll voices, with some voices which were requested. The voices are as follow:
- Fallout 4: Gen1Synth03
- Fallout New Vegas: MaleAdult01DefaultB
- Dragon Age: Leliana
- Command and Conquer: Kane
They all came out well, apart from Kane, which came out with some beeping in the background. I ende...
The next batch is here, including the top 5 voices from poll #16, and 4 requested voices. The poll voices:
- Skyrim: Arngeir
- Skyrim: Mirabelle
- Skyrim: Esbern
- Skyrim: Isran
- Skyrim: Kodlak Whitemane
The requested voices:
- Mass Effect: Ashley
- Mass Effect: EDI
- Fallout New Vegas: MaleAdult01Default
...
The next round of voices is here! This one has 6 from the poll, as well as two extra that were requested:
- Fallout 3: FemaleAdult04
- Fallout New Vegas: Lanius (requested)
- Skyrim: Alduin
- Skyrim: Dragon
- Skyrim: Paarthunax
- Skyrim: FemaleArgonian
- Skyrim: MaleArgonian
- League Of Legends: Swain (requested - "oth...
I've just finished putting together the initial implementation of support for third party plugins in xVASynth. Plugins are supported for either/both Python/JavaScript scripts, for either/both back-end/front-end, respectively. There is also support for .css files, to change the app visuals. You can think of them as chrome extensions, but for xVAS...
2021-05-01 14:37:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe next batch is here! This time these are the poll winners:
- Skyrim: Tulius
- Skyrim: Ulfric
- Skyrim: MaleDarkElfCynical
- Skyrim: FemaleCoward
- Skyrim: MaleCondescending
- Cyberpunk: Judy
I've also still been re-training older voices. Alongside these, the public versions of the following voices have been updated:...
2021-04-27 19:43:54 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to make a quick announcement, about an update on the hardware side of things. Thanks to everyone's incredible support, I have now completed the next bit of hardware upgrades, composed of a new motherboard, and a new CPU.
This is the third upgrade since the start, the first being the new GPU+PSU, and second (unannounced) being a sy...
2021-04-24 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nexus page for the Witcher models is now live, at: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/5676
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In other news, a further two requested models are no...
2021-04-21 15:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostNew voices! From the poll, these are:
Oblivion: Martin
Fallout 3: FemaleAdult02
New Vegas: Cass
Skyrim: MaleDarkElfCommoner
Skyrim: MaleOldKindly
Skyrim: MaleOldGrumpy
These all came out well, and each include a HiFi vocoder. Expect a large wave of re-trained updates to come to the older voices as well, in the followin...
2021-04-17 16:25:40 +0000 UTC View PostAnother quick mid-batch update with a few more of the requested voices. The non-private ones:
Fallout 4: Kellog
Mass Effect: Thane
Mass Effect: Shepard (Male)
The poll voices will be out shortly. I've also re-trained and released the following two voices (requests):
Skyrim: Frea
Skyrim: Karliah
The others are com...
2021-04-13 15:47:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe next batch of voices is ready:
- Skyrim: MaleCommonerAccented
- Skyrim: MaleCommoner
- Skyrim: FemaleKhajiit
- Skyrim: MaleKhajiit
- Skyrim: FemaleOrc
- New Vegas: Benny
- The Witcher: Vesemir
All these voices came out well, and they have HiFi vocoders (apart from Vesemir, which will have it soon). I've also fin...
2021-04-07 08:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt was inevitable, and here it is: Todd Howard's voice! It came out far better than what I had hoped (comes with HiFi, of course).
About 6 different AI models went into making this, all doing different things.
Pretty please don't share this one around early if people ask for it - I will release it to the Nexus after the 2 weeks...
2021-03-25 19:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs you may have seen from previous posts, and messages on Discord, I've been experimenting in the background with ways to get around unavailable transcripts for voices. This was spurred on by the Cyberpunk requests, for which the transcript is not (yet) available.
Given just the audio files, I've been working on automating the transcriptio...
2021-03-24 09:38:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The next wave of voices is here, including a few voices from requests. The voices are as follows:
Fallout 4: RobotCompanionFemaleProcessed
Fallout 4: RobotCompanionMaleDefault
Fallout 4: RobotCompanionMaleProcessed
Fallout 4: FemaleOverseerDLC6
The Witcher: Cirilla (requested)
Fallout 76: MODUS (requested)
Civilization IV...
The first round of voices from the last Fallout 4 poll is ready. I've also been spending some time re-doing some of the earlier voices. I released an update to RobotAssaultron (now with T2 and HiFi) to the nexus, along with an update to Curie (also T2 and HiFi).
As for new voices, they are as follows:
Fallout 4: MrGutsy (with HiFi)
The next version of xVASynth is ready for early testing! The main new features are the Batch synthesis mode for synthesizing many lines in one go, and changes to the normal synthesis process to allow for partially generating the audio (to retain editor changes when editing the text). The changelog is as follows:
- Added batch synthesis mod...
2021-03-18 14:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostA new batch of voices! This time:
- Fallout 4: GuardMaleDiamondCity01
- Fallout 4: GuardMaleDiamondCity02
- Fallout 4: Strong
- Fallout 4: GangOperatorMale01
- Fallout 4: GangOperatorMale02
- Fallout 4: Gen1Synth01
- Fallout 4: Gen1Synth02
- Fallout 4: MagsBlack
- Fallout 4: Hancock
- Cyberpunk 2077: V (female) -...
A new batch is done. The voices this time are:
Fallout 4: Preston
Fallout 4: BobbiNoNose
Fallout 4: Clem
Fallout 4: GangDiscipleFemale01
Fallout 4: GangDiscipleFemale02
Fallout 4: GangDiscipleMale01
Fallout 4: Mason
Fallout 4: MaleBoS01
Fallout 4: MaleBoS02
Cyberpunk 2077: V (Male)
All voices are good...
2021-03-09 18:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostA big one this time, following the options from the poll, as well as the second half of the surge in personal requests (of which 2 additional voices not in this list were private) from earlier.
The new voices are:
- Fallout 4: MaleGhoul
- Fallout 4: Longfellow
- Fallout 4: MaleMaineAccent
- Fallout 4: LancerCaptainKell...
I had a surge in personal requests from Producers/Investors this week, three of which made it into this batch. Following these and the options from the poll, the new voices are:
- Skyrim: MaleOrc
- Skyrim: MaleEvenToned
- New Vegas: MrNewVegas (radio voice)
- Fallout 4: Sturges
- Fallout 4: Shank
- Fallout 4: MaleRaider01