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8:28 AM

just in case someone wants to play with AI generated pony voices - here is a link. Fluttershy seems to be the one that gives best results for some odd reason. As a bonus, you can also play with Glados voice with pretty good results too.

V2Blast

Per its characters list, it has voices for, besides MLP ponies: GLaDOS and Wheatley from Portal, the Narrator from The Stanley Parable, the Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who, the Soldier from Team Fortress 2, and Sans from Undertale

the Wheatley one is not great

...there's also a Chell one for some reason. you will be entirely unsurprised by the results.

trogdor

lol

a Chell voice XD

just,.... why???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

it would be better to make a Link voice, at least he says "HA!" XD he even says it several different ways

V2Blast

I've never played The Stanley Parable, but the Stanley option seems to have similar results

trogdor

wait to Chell?

because that guy is a fantastic narrator

he actually talks a lot

his talking is what fills up most of the game

they even use it to pointedly tell you you have screwed with something by making him not talk for a while (if you do certain things to trigger it I mean)

Derpy

@trogdor there is also a Sans voice.... With predictable results.

V2Blast

8:43 AM

Stanley, not the Narrator (I assume Stanley is the character)

trogdor

@V2Blast ooooh wait yeah

V2Blast

the Narrator voice works, if sounding a bit weird

Tenth Doctor voice is... eh

trogdor

I thought you meant the Narrator voice cause you mentioned it before

V2Blast

the voice for the Soldier from TF2 sounds strangely Scottish

lol

trogdor

huh

which is weird because,... there's definitely a (stereotyped) scottish character in that, but it isn't him

he's supposed to be,... generically American I think

(as opposed to say, Scout who is streriotyped Boston Accent Guy)

(or BAG for short,.... look I dunno I just had to say it)

V2Blast

8:47 AM

yeah, Soldier's supposed to have a Midwest US accent

trogdor

I would say Midwestern US accents are sort of treated as the "generic" version of an American accent

even though there's very distinct accents from all over the country

or maybe because of that

I guess we only hear a small number of Brittish accents too, or,... from a lot of places really

although if I stray outside of Europe it also starts becoming very steriotyped and unhealthy

but actually, British accents are the ones that surprise me the most, in terms of how many there are

it's such a relatively small place, but it has a ton of accents

V2Blast

There's also a voice for the Pyro

lol

it's about what you'd expect

Sans is also what you'd expect :P

trogdor

lol

V2Blast

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trogdor

why have they tried to make voices for all these characters with no to limited voices?

V2Blast

8:58 AM

who knows

trogdor

sans is a sort of digital mumbling/beeping sound

Pyro is,.. a guy yelling (probably something incoherent to begin with) through a very muffling mask

Chell,.. I think maybe she makes noise when she lands on her feet from a fall from very high up, or gets hit by a turret but is otherwise silent

Stanley doesn't freaking talk at all as far as I'm aware XD

I mean,... maybe Chell and Stanely are in there because they are in games where someone else talks and they needed to include all the characters? but why?

V2Blast

also on the SE-related note:

The Loop : March 2020

Sara Chipps on March 30, 2020

It’s easy to wonder how leaders, even the good ones, sleep at night. The decisions that come across their desks affect so many lives, jobs, healthcare, human rights. All of these decisions impact large sums of people and their ability to sustain their personal Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It’s hard to imagine how they can…

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

/me adds 'perpetuating the very dubious Maslow hierarchy memeplex' to the list of SE's issues.

V2Blast

and (I haven't listened to it yet, but...)

Podcast 222: Learning From our Moderators

Ben Popper on March 31, 2020

This podcast is meant to reach the Stack community, so we thought it would be great to have some of the moderators who help keep our communities running come on the show and chat about what they do and what they are seeing.

trogdor

(but then Pyro is in there and they didn't include a lot of the like, 8 I think? other characters who actually say words) XD

ok I tried it, and I think Pyro is actually really good, considering he says absolute gibberish normally and,... it's still gibberish in this XD

V2Blast

9:10 AM

yes, it's very accurate. but then so are Chell's and Stanley's and Sans's? :P

trogdor

I suppose so?

in fact it seems like it's like, incredibly accurate

almost like they just took the random things he says and just use those

instead of generating one

it may be weird and surprising but I recognize all the things Pyro says in this AI voice thing as,... exactly what he says in the game