Voices of Calradia
Added 2024-04-13 22:46:01 +0000 UTCHello folks,
I hope you are doing all fine. Today or tomorrow (depending on where you are) I will release a new mod and a video, but I wanted to give a short and quick quick-peek to you all before that happens. The reason I'm releasing this mod in short notice is because I actually just spent ~2 days on it tops, and it doesn't really feel like a huge mod for me. So I think it's better if I release it to public as soon as possible to get more bug-reports from the users.
Basically mod uses Elevenlabs API to generate speech from the text on Bannerlord dialogues. This removes the annoying heavy-british accent greeting voice lines and replaces it with FULL voices characters. System is using a smart way to manage conversations. Every voice generation is saved in a folder with {voiceid}_{text unique id}.mp3 and if a new lord/lady/character is assigned to use the same voice id and require generating the same text, it simply reads it from the existing clips without spending any of your credit.
Each character is using a dedicated randomly assigned voices from pre-set voice pool for that culture. Or if you wish, you can also set a specific voice ID for the lords/ladies as well (which will be shown in Youtube video) In this video, Rhageae is using a random female voice from Empire voice id pool.
Voice generation is almost instant in most of the scenarios, and it might take a few seconds for longer text (as can be seen in the video), but after generating it once, that clip can be used again and again if requested.
I think this mod increases the immersiveness of the game greatly. Frankly speaking, I never cared about the background stories of the companions in this game until I start listening them explaining it with their own voice.
This also works in 29 languages. Here is a simple Turkish version
I included step by step guide how to get a voice setup right in mod description page and you can all go there once it's published. But you either way need Elevenlabs account and if you don't have it, please create an account here
Good part of this is that people can replace the voices they want with anything they like. For example, in Youtube video I used Benedict Wong's great Kubilai Khan performance from Marco Polo to replace sound for Monchug Khan. And you can do much much more as long as you don't commercially release anything (or perhaps you can even do that, I'm not too into laws and whatnot)
