how to write script about translation voice acting?

[drblackcat]

i am already have a self made two-language game by using the translation function, but i have a problem about if i want add voice acting about two languages and should be in-game swichable, what should i do now?
thank you.

[Donmai]

Never really thought about that before (maybe because I don't like VNs with voice acting) but thinking how Ren'Py translation works, I'm assuming that if you have a 'voice' folder with voice recordings for the game default language, and you make for example a Spanish version, then you'll just need to create another 'voice' folder with the Spanish voice recordings and put it inside game/tl/Spanish. Switching languages should also switch voice acting.
You can always do some tests.
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/translati ... anslations

[xavimat]

You can use "auto_voice" defining a function.
If your original language is English, you can define it this way:

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init python:
    def the_voice(identifier):
        if _preferences.language is None:
            return "voice/english/" + identifier + ".ogg"
        else:
            return "voice/" + _preferences.language + "/" + identifier + ".ogg"

    config.auto_voice = the_voice

Then, in the "game" folder add a "voice" folder and, inside, two folders "english" and your other language (actually, you can add as many folders as languages your game have).
Ren'Py'll try to find in the correct folder the files named according to the explanation here: http://renpy.org/doc/html/voice.html#automatic-voice


EDIT: What Donmai says works for images (when you have text in the image that needs to be translated). But I think it doesn't with auto_voice if you don't define the function (I've never tried).