Making voicing code less visible/shorter?

[SundownKid]

I am adding voice acting to parts of my game, and I have the labeling down pact, but I am wondering if there was a way to make the formatting less intrusive. Right now I have to put:

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play voice "blabla.ogg"
c "Character says something"

Before every line, and it's kind of distracting when writing is concerned. Is there a way to streamline this or make the commands less visible?

[nyaatrap]

something like

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$voice(track1）

can be implemented using ren'py.music.play()
I don't know better way than this ._.

[SundownKid]

What I really wish there was was a command like

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begin voice block "voice/part1_%s.ogg"
p "I am person 1"
d "I am person 2"
end voice block

Which would automatically find the number of separate lines between the beginning and end, and play numbered voice files in sequence (with the string being the number). That would eliminate much of the grunt work of placing "play voice" commands before every sentence.

[Alex]

You could make a function that returns voice and character words, like

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init python:
    def my_func(x, y, z):
        renpy.music.play(x, "voice")
        renpy.say(y, z)

label start:
    $ my_func ("track1.ogg", e, "Hello, it's me - Eileen")
    $ my_func ("track2.ogg", None, "test-test")

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/reference/Audio

[SundownKid]

I don't see how doing that would streamline the process, though, it's still the same amount of extra cruft if not moreso. I was looking for a way to do it without using any filenames. Maybe there could be something that uses the music queue?