See the Portal Wiki article Reddit is a network of communities based on people's interests. OK, I Understand.The main antagonist in Portala video game by Valve. By continuing to use Pastebin, you agree to our use of cookies as described in the Cookies Policy. We use cookies for various purposes including analytics. Portal 2 Announcer's Speech This next test is very dangerous. If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future… God help you. This next test applies the principles of momentum to movement through portals. If the Enrichment center is currently being bombarded with fireballs, meteorites, or other objects from space, please avoid unsheltered testing areas wherever a lack of shelter from space-debris does not appear to be a deliberate part of the test. Please disregard any undeserved compliments. To help you remain tranquil in the face of almost certain death, smooth jazz will be deployed in Great work! Because this message is prerecorded, any observations related to your performance are speculation on our part. Sign Upit unlocks many cool features! This next test is very dangerous. Your finished product will look like this.Public Pastes. Once again, select the Edit Pitch control, and slide everything down. You can select multiple sound bubbles with the selection tool by clicking and dragging and creating a box around what you need to edit. In my example, I have two syllables I need to change at the very end. GlaDOS will often employ sarcasm when speaking certain words in Portal. Then, you can find a line over one of the sound bubbles, and slide it over to where you want to break up the audio. You see those bars over each sound bubble? Click on any one of them and drag up, probably about 3 steps. The result will look something like this. This smoothes out the sound of your voice, so it sounds more consistent and robotic.ĭouble click on any of the sound bubbles to remove modulation. You can see that right now, the selection tool is highlighted. Next, take a look at the upper right portion of the screen. I stripped it down to a mono track, and exported it as a. When I recorded it, it gave it to me as a stereo track. I recorded my voice in Audacity and did some quick noise removal to clean it up. You can always just use TTS output instead of your voice, but using a real voice makes the difference. They used TTS to record her lines, then played them back to give her a basis for her voice acting.
The way Valve did it for Portal was they had a professional voice actress, Ellen McLaindo her best impression of a text-to-speech engine. Joinsubscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles.