Adding sound to text like a typewritter

[emanueljoab]

I'm noob, lol.
I'm trying to make a beep every time a character is show on a dialogue. So I put the code on the top of script.rpy just like shown here and here.

However, it doesn't beep while text appears...

It is a 3 seconds .mp3 file...

Can someone please help me? Thank you very much.

[papiersam]

Most likely cause is that there's a delay/silence in the beginning of the mp3 file.

...I think.

[Imperf3kt]

I would not suggest .mp3 for short audio. Use .wav or .ogg instead (but really best is .wav) due to two reasons:
.mp3 is not free
.mp3 is not optimised for instantaneous playback (it is compressed and needs to be decompressed first)

.wav will not experience the lag if you use Linear PCM
.ogg is less prone to playback delay and also royalty-free

The difference between a 160kbps lame mp3 and 160kbps ogg vorbis is practically non-existent. This is called "transparent" - meaning to the human ear, both files sound identical.

[emanueljoab]

Well, I make it to work because I didn't set a character to say. lol I found Renpy would set as a narrator whatever.

I would not suggest .mp3 for short audio. Use .wav or .ogg instead (but really best is .wav) due to two reasons:
.mp3 is not free
.mp3 is not optimised for instantaneous playback (it is compressed and needs to be decompressed first)

.wav will not experience the lag if you use Linear PCM
.ogg is less prone to playback delay and also royalty-free

The difference between a 160kbps lame mp3 and 160kbps ogg vorbis is practically non-existent. This is called "transparent" - meaning to the human ear, both files sound identical.

I'm going to use .ogg because FL Studio seems to not have support for exporting PCM.

Thank you.

[Imperf3kt]

You can export to pcm using FLstudio, infact on my version (FLstudio 10 free/demo) .ogg needs to be added and is not included by default.

To use LPCM, choose the output to WAV option.
In my copy, at least, exporting to WAV is the program's default.

In any case, .ogg is perfectly suitable and smaller than lossless 16bit LPCM WAV

[emanueljoab]

Interesting. Anyway, I have another question.

Can Renpy make a bleep for every letter entered?

[chapscher]

Are you asking how to make a chyron or a Phoenix Wright-style beeping/chirping? I got you covered
(It drove me nuts finding out how to do it and I'm still not exactly sure how it works, but here's what I have)

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init python:
    def callback(event, **kwargs):
        if event == "show":
            renpy.music.play("type.wav", channel="sound", loop=True)
        elif event == "slow_done" or event == "end":
            renpy.music.stop(channel="sound")
$ loc = Character(what_font="cour.ttf", callback=callback)

Add your sound (type.wav) and, if you want to create a chyron-type thing this is how you set a different font for it (cour.ttf). I have this set up so the typing sound only occurs when the "loc" (location) 'character' speaks. If you want to apply this to more characters I'm sure this can be modified.