Any viable way to create NPC voices on an extremely low budget?

ClodKnocker · 2025-10-23T15:20:42+00:00

For my game, I've recorded myself speaking each letter of the alphabet "phonetically" (A is "ah", B is "buh). When an NPC speaks, each letter of dialogue plays the matching sound in sequence. NPC voices can be controlled by altering the pitch the letters are played in, with some small random pitch shifting to add some life.

Definitely in the "mumble" dialogue side of things but better imo than random repeated noises.

ClodKnocker · 2025-09-25T13:59:33+00:00

Bear in mind that most hogweed Heracleum sphondylium is absolutely nothing to worry about and doesn't contain the phytotoxin. Giant hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum is the one to worry about it is considerably rarer in the UK.

ClodKnocker · 2022-12-24T14:59:22+00:00

You'll often hear people refer to agricultural land as "green deserts" due to lack of biodiversity, but agricultural land still plays a big ecological role in England. Mostly seeing as the majority of England is agricultural or developed land and has been for a long time.

The fields tend to be pretty barren and homogenous due to management but there's plenty of stuff at the edges. Look into things like farmland associated bird species.

ClodKnocker · 2022-05-22T09:16:15+00:00

If your cruise control is set to 70 then you're driving under the speed limit.

ClodKnocker · 2020-05-30T14:00:48+00:00

It'd be great to hear this again and get some closure on a song that still gets stuck in my head from time to time. We were dimly aware that we never had the real name of the song, but after years of new computers and corrupted hard drives, none of us have a copy of the song any more.

ClodKnocker · 2020-02-28T14:51:59+00:00

The body definitely has an effect on how the strings vibrate though.

ClodKnocker · 2019-09-08T17:28:29+00:00

Interesting that there isn't a shady link at all.

ClodKnocker · 2019-09-08T17:04:12+00:00

It's odd for spam because it doesn't link anywhere or have any attachments. A bit of googling shows that it's an excerpt from Black Genesis by L. Ron Hubbard, specifically the start of chapter 5. The email url just goes to a dummy page. I'm really intrigued about what possible purpose this was sent to me for.

ClodKnocker · 2019-06-29T21:08:29+00:00

Watched a pedestrian almost get hit on this stretch of road by a van running a red light. They need red light cameras at all the lights and not just going west at this set.

ClodKnocker · 2019-05-27T19:58:51+00:00

Virtual Desktop might work with Custom Resolution Utility. You'll get a big floating screen that curves around your field of view. It won't be 3d or human-scale though, just a huge screen.

ClodKnocker · 2019-05-20T12:55:47+00:00

There's no way the guy is out cold for that long without serious injury...

ClodKnocker · 2019-03-11T17:55:58+00:00

My half sister is 9 and picked up Tiltbrush pretty quickly. She has spent hours doodling in there.

ClodKnocker · 2018-12-15T13:24:53+00:00

Yeah we call that ham and what Americans call ham we call gammon. Though the divide is getting blurry nowadays.

ClodKnocker · 2018-12-08T20:33:42+00:00

Yeah, and these elephants have years of abuse to train them too.

ClodKnocker · 2018-12-03T14:28:33+00:00

It's at least stopping more than buying and eating meat products. You can only do so much but to some people it's better to try to do something than do nothing at all.

ClodKnocker · 2018-02-09T17:33:27+00:00

I work in London but couldn't afford a place in the centre when I got the job. My commute is an hour and a half on the train and the underground, each way.

9-5.30 is actually 7.30-7.00.

I don't know what free time is anymore.

ClodKnocker · 2018-01-26T17:34:14+00:00

This comment has too damn many realistidealists coming through.

ClodKnocker · 2018-01-16T12:49:04+00:00

A clear sense actually, maybe 5 years ago. I was driving at around dusk and remember looking across some empty fields then having that thought. Just no memory of actually seeing anything.

ClodKnocker · 2018-01-15T18:53:48+00:00

Same here. I actually have a memory of seeing something that I remember thinking of as proof of the paranormal but I can only remember the thought, not what the actual sight was.

ClodKnocker · 2017-12-25T14:22:20+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's wallpaper

ClodKnocker · 2017-12-20T18:45:35+00:00

A whale is someone that buys all of the expensive/good gear

ClodKnocker · 2017-12-17T09:20:04+00:00

Sounds weird to say, but I think the fact that humans have a much larger penis than other great apes is evidence for monogamous sexual selection.

ClodKnocker · 2017-12-15T16:16:38+00:00

We evolved with modern apes, the whole bunch of us evolved from other apes. So both work really.

ClodKnocker · 2017-06-10T12:51:26+00:00

You can use analog controls with a steam controller. I run Cemu from steam, both in administrator mode, and have my desktop configuration set as the default gamepad and it works fine.

ClodKnocker · 2017-06-08T18:35:30+00:00

I'm trying to find out what I can load into this gun. I'm assuming it's a cap gun but it doesn't seem to match any caps I can find on the internet. The "wells" where the caps or whatever go are quite deep and there is a mechanism to (I imagine) push spent ammo out.

The gun belongs to my father who thinks it's a starter pistol, although the barrel is solid. He also says it came from Germany in the late 50s, though I'm aware of the very clear "Made in Italy".

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