Change How Self-Voicing Pronounces Words?

[cucumbird]

Is it possible to change how self-voicing pronounces a word? There are names in my script that self-voicing can't handle, but I think if I could just change what self-voicing is trying to read, it would fix it.

For example:
Is there some way to set self-voicing to consistently read "hermione" as "hermy one" every time the name comes up?

I think this might be possible through the "alternative text" function, but honestly I'm a bit confused as to how it works.

Thanks!

[Remix]

It is not an easy one to do afaik as there does not seem to be a function or map that does it all automatically based on words in the dialogue.

If anyone does want to explore further, you eventually want to change the what_alt of the line, e.g:

"Hermione" (what_alt="A different spoken line")

[Ocelot]

Self-voicing is not a replacement for voiced dialogue. It is merely a tool for visually impaired to be able to access your game at all. In fact RenPy does not voice anything. It is merely accesses speech synthesis API of OS it is running on, so any changes you want to make should be done on end-user OS. Which is not feasible.

[Remix]

A rather *hacky* kludge:

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init -1 python:
    voice_map = {
        'hermione' : 'Emma Watson',
        'harry' : 'Daniel Rad cliff',
    }

    def voice_substitute(*args, **kwargs):
        what_alt = str(args[1]).lower()
        for k in voice_map:
            what_alt = what_alt.replace(
                "{0} ".format(k),
                "{0} ".format(voice_map[k])).replace(
                " {0}".format(k),
                " {0}".format(voice_map[k]))
        if what_alt != str(args[1]).lower():
            # substituted
            kwargs.get('what_args', {}).update({'alt':what_alt})
        return renpy.show_display_say(*args, **kwargs)

# this character has her dialogue (the 'what' part) altered on the fly
define h = Character("Hermione", show_function=voice_substitute)

label start:
    # shows these words 
    # and yet autovoice says "Daniel Radcliffe fancies Emma Watson"
    h "Harry fancies Hermione"
    return

Note: The mapping function simply does string replace if it finds the key with a space before or after... tweak/improve as wanted

[cucumbird]

Remix, thanks for your work!

The code you provided does change how self-voicing pronounces words, but for whatever reason, once it's activated, lines that don't contain any terms that need to be changed are no longer voiced.

So, for example:

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label start:
#self-voicing works normally
    h "Test line."
#self-voicing reads: "Daniel Radcliffe fancies Emma Watson"
    h "Harry fancies Hermione."
#self-voicing says nothing
    h "Nobody fancies anyone."
#self-voicing says "I am Daniel Radcliffe"
    h "I am Harry."
    return

Furthermore, if I then restart the game, Hermione's first line ("Test line") is voiced as "I am Daniel Radcliffe."

My game is pretty short (and I have very little coding experience), so I might just do the what_alts by hand, but if you come up with a solution for the above issue I'd love to see it.

[Imperf3kt]

I seem to recall I just did something like this once: (Cannot test if it works as I remember from here.)

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define dumbledore = "Dumbledore" alt "dumb bell door"


label start:
    harry "Professor [dumbledore]."

It works fine with screens, but I haven't tried it with say statements yet... That I recall. I think I actually did.

[cucumbird]

I seem to recall I just did something like this once: (Cannot test if it works as I remember from here.)

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define dumbledore = "Dumbledore" alt "dumb bell door"


label start:
    harry "Professor [dumbledore]."

It works fine with screens, but I haven't tried it with say statements yet... That I recall. I think I actually did.

Unfortunately this is not valid syntax. I tried:

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define dumbledore = "Dumbledore" (what_alt="dumb bell door")


label start:
    harry "Professor [dumbledore]."

However, the above returns the error:

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I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1, in script
    define dumbledore = "Dumbledore" (what_alt="dumb bell door")
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1, in <module>
    define dumbledore = "Dumbledore" (what_alt="dumb bell door")
TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1, in script
    define dumbledore = "Dumbledore" (what_alt="dumb bell door")
  File "C:\Users\Armin\Desktop\OneDrive - The University of Western Ontario\renpy-6.99.13-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1912, in execute
    value = renpy.python.py_eval_bytecode(self.code.bytecode)
  File "C:\Users\Armin\Desktop\OneDrive - The University of Western Ontario\renpy-6.99.13-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1828, in py_eval_bytecode
    return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 1, in <module>
    define dumbledore = "Dumbledore" (what_alt="dumb bell door")
TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.14.3135
TEST 1.0

[Imperf3kt]

Hmm, I don't know where I 'remembered' that from, but checking the project I was sure I used it in, I don't see it anywhere. Am I losing my mind

[Remix]

You might have used:

define dumbledore = Text( "Dumbledore", alt="dum ball door" )

or something similar.

Give me a while to test a few bits and I will try to find what works...

[Remix]

Not getting anywhere with this, so just a quick fix for my remap function:

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    def voice_substitute(*args, **kwargs):
        what_alt = str(args[1]).lower()
        for k in voice_map:
            what_alt = what_alt.replace(
                "{0} ".format(k),
                "{0} ".format(voice_map[k])).replace(
                " {0}".format(k),
                " {0}".format(voice_map[k]))
        kwargs.get('what_args', {}).update({'alt':what_alt})
        return renpy.show_display_say(*args, **kwargs)

[cucumbird]

Imperf3kt, I've "remembered" similar things in the past, no worries Maybe you wanted to use it but it turned out not to work?

Remix, thanks again, it works perfectly!

Is there a way to make it replace all text, or do I have to individually use the function with each character? Also, is it only possible to use this function with dialogue, or would it be possible to use with screens, etc.?

[Rekoija]

the biggest problem here is, that it doesn't care about the name of the person speaking.
so if Hermione is speaking, it will read the name as Hermione, and then change it to Emma Watson when she says it.

[PyTom]

Although I don't know when 7.4 will be released, I've added the {noalt} text tag to take care of this. In conjuction with the also unreleased {alt} tag, this would let you do:

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"{noalt}Dumbledore{/noalt}{alt}Dumb bell dore{/alt}"