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Czech and Croatian packs now have a host voice, every language on the three discs can be
voiced, and Xbox 360 Big Button pads can be your buzzers.
Czech and Croatian question reading
- Fixed: custom Czech packs came out silent. The voice engine has no Czech or Croatian, so
these packs were built without audio, and Generate failed outright once a Czech voice existed. - The toolkit now speaks both through its Polish voice. It first rewrites the text the way a
Polish reader would pronounce it (ř→rz,ě→je/ie,ť/ď/ňsoftening, Croatian
đ,lj,nj, syllabicr), and writes out numbers, decimals and percentages as Czech or
Croatian words. Otherwise2008would be read in Polish. - The voice is cloned from your disc's own Czech or Croatian question reader.
Train a voice in any disc language
- The voice trainer takes
--lang(ESP, PRT, FRA, DEU, ITA, NLD, POL, RUS, GRC, CZE, CRO). It
learns from that language's question reader on your disc, about 5,800 lines each for Czech and
Croatian. The trainer's end-of-run check listens in that language too. - Trained voices are now used for every language, not just English.
- Czech and Croatian train with 1,500 delivery steps by default. Measured against the earlier 500
steps:
| Misheard words, untrained | 500 steps | 1,500 steps | Real host | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Czech | 55.4% | 31.8% | 27.3% | 15.5% |
| Croatian | 46.8% | 26.0% | 19.6% | 20.5% |
Similarity to the real host: Czech 0.982 (real recordings score 0.983), Croatian 0.980 (0.987).
- New
--retrain-t3trains a voice's delivery again with more steps, reusing the decoded disc
lines. The previous training is kept. - The README has new sections on accuracy, fixing words that come out wrong (
pronounceand
sayinpack.json), and training further.
Big Button buzzers
- New: play with Xbox 360 Big Button pads (from Scene It?) as the four buzzers. In the app,
open Big Button buzzers and switch on. The page checks the IR receiver, its WinUSB driver and
RPCS3's controller profile, and shows every press so you can see which pad is which player. - Switching on maps RPCS3 players 1-4 to the pads' keys in the game's controller profile and sets
RPCS3's Buzz! emulation to four buzzers, backing up your settings first. Switching off puts
them back. Works with all three discs. - The README's new Big Button buzzers section covers the Zadig driver step, how a press travels
from pad to game, and a troubleshooting table.
Real PS3 consoles
- Packages now carry the same install metadata as Sony's own Buzz DLC: firmware and app version,
and the install folder. RPCS3 never needed it, but a console's installer may. - A new README section, Installing on a real PS3, covers HEN/CFW install steps, an FTP fallback,
a troubleshooting table of every likely failure point, and what to report. Still untested on
hardware. Unmodified consoles can't install custom packages at all.
Fixes
- Russian and Greek voice lines are now actually checked. The speech check only counted
Latin letters, so every Cyrillic or Greek line scored as perfect and a mispronounced take was
never made again. Our 12-language test caught a Greek line with two wrong words. - Pack file names keep their letters when the pack name has accents (
ČESKÝ KVÍZ→
CeskyKviz_CZE_PACK0097.pkg, waseskKvz). - Voice generation no longer crashes on progress messages Windows couldn't decode.
Updating
- Run
Install.batagain after unzipping. It installsnum2words(Czech number reading)
and the USB library for the Big Button buzzers. - Voices you trained earlier still work. To get the new Czech or Croatian voices, train them with
--lang CZE/--lang CRO(see Host voice in the README).
Known limits
- Czech pronunciation is good but not native: about 1 word in 4 is misheard by speech
recognition, against 1 in 6 for the real reader. Usepronouncefor words that matter. - Ordinals, Roman numerals and abbreviations are read as written; write them as words.
- Real-console installs are untested.
- Big Button buzzers are tested up to RPCS3 (receiver, presses, mapping and restore); a full
four-pad game hasn't been played through yet. - The host's spoken links around a question are still in English regardless of the pack
language. - Matchmaking and online multiplayer remain unavailable; only the MyBuzz quiz menus work.