Tab911
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Now that 1.18 is out, I wanted to revive an old idea to hire some voice actors on Fiverr to give us voice lines for the new civs. I was planning on giving Colombia a go so I will start with that as a trial case. The two main topics for this thread:
1. Is anyone familiar with how to chop up the lines in the audio file and implement them into the game? Should I be aware of anything specific before I make the audio request?
2. Language choices. Here are the new civs:
Harappa - We don't really know, I think default Sumerian is a good choice
Assyria - Babylon's Akkadian works here
Nubia - No idea what to go with for this one, following the convention of Egypt, perhaps Sudanese Arabic?
Hittites - Also not sure about this one, Byzantine Greek?
Polynesia - There's a number of Polynesian languages. I can't remember which island we're using as the spawn location, but presumably that is the best choice.
Dravidians - I think Tamil is the best choice
Toltecs - Aztec's Nahuatl works
Kushans - I think modern Dari is probably the best choice here
Malays - Malay
Turks - Modern Turkmen?
Tibet - Tibetan
Moors - Moroccan Arabic
Java - Javanese
Spain - I've never been happy with the default Spanish in the game. For one, it is certainly more Latin American than European, but it is done in such a neutral way it doesn't really fit Mexico, Colombia or Argentina. I would like to get a Castilian Spanish VA for Spain, speaking of which...
Colombia - Colombian Spanish
Argentina - Argentine Spanish
Mexico - Mexican Spanish
Burma - Burmese
Rus - Ukrainian? The Rus spoke an old eastern slavic language which evolved into Ukrainian, but also Russian and Belorussian. I think given the core in Kyiv, and the civ convention of modern languages, Ukrainian is the best choice.
Vietnam - Vietnamese
Swahilis - Swahili (Ideally from Zanzibar)
Poland - This one already exists, but we can get higher quality audio now.
Italy - Same as Poland above.
Mughals - From my very limited understanding, Mughal royals spoke an old Persian while subjects largely spoke languages from the Indian subcontinent. I figure Urdu is a good blend of both and largely evolved out of the intermixing of Persian and North-Western Indian languages.
Thailand - Thai
Sweden - Swedish
Congo - Kikongo is still spoken today in Angola, but I don't think I will be able to find any VA for this. Kimbundu, Lingala, Kituba, and Tshiluba are other Western Congolese languages which we may have more luck with, hopefully not too much of a stretch.
Brazil - Brazilian Portuguese
Canada - Canadian English
Thoughts?
1. Is anyone familiar with how to chop up the lines in the audio file and implement them into the game? Should I be aware of anything specific before I make the audio request?
2. Language choices. Here are the new civs:
Harappa - We don't really know, I think default Sumerian is a good choice
Assyria - Babylon's Akkadian works here
Nubia - No idea what to go with for this one, following the convention of Egypt, perhaps Sudanese Arabic?
Hittites - Also not sure about this one, Byzantine Greek?
Polynesia - There's a number of Polynesian languages. I can't remember which island we're using as the spawn location, but presumably that is the best choice.
Dravidians - I think Tamil is the best choice
Toltecs - Aztec's Nahuatl works
Kushans - I think modern Dari is probably the best choice here
Malays - Malay
Turks - Modern Turkmen?
Tibet - Tibetan
Moors - Moroccan Arabic
Java - Javanese
Spain - I've never been happy with the default Spanish in the game. For one, it is certainly more Latin American than European, but it is done in such a neutral way it doesn't really fit Mexico, Colombia or Argentina. I would like to get a Castilian Spanish VA for Spain, speaking of which...
Colombia - Colombian Spanish
Argentina - Argentine Spanish
Mexico - Mexican Spanish
Burma - Burmese
Rus - Ukrainian? The Rus spoke an old eastern slavic language which evolved into Ukrainian, but also Russian and Belorussian. I think given the core in Kyiv, and the civ convention of modern languages, Ukrainian is the best choice.
Vietnam - Vietnamese
Swahilis - Swahili (Ideally from Zanzibar)
Poland - This one already exists, but we can get higher quality audio now.
Italy - Same as Poland above.
Mughals - From my very limited understanding, Mughal royals spoke an old Persian while subjects largely spoke languages from the Indian subcontinent. I figure Urdu is a good blend of both and largely evolved out of the intermixing of Persian and North-Western Indian languages.
Thailand - Thai
Sweden - Swedish
Congo - Kikongo is still spoken today in Angola, but I don't think I will be able to find any VA for this. Kimbundu, Lingala, Kituba, and Tshiluba are other Western Congolese languages which we may have more luck with, hopefully not too much of a stretch.
Brazil - Brazilian Portuguese
Canada - Canadian English
Thoughts?
