Voice Pack 0.0.1 (Player Name: Helena, Gender: Female)

Voice acting pack for this PR: #1

These voice lines were generated with the player name "Helena" and the female gender.

About 10% of these voice lines were generated by https://elevenlabs.io/. At least line by each NPC (usually the longest voice line) and pretty much all the voice lines from the town of Trinsic were generated with elevenlabs, and the scripts in the PR make these easy to regenerate with any player name and gender you want. There is also a web application you can run locally to help you re-cast Ultima 7 NPCs with new voices.

I think I spent around 20-30 USD on elevenlabs to generate ~10% of the voice lines. The rest of the voice lines I generated locally using ChatterboxTurboTTS, cloning the produced elevenlabs voice lines as samples, on a RTX 3070, which took about 12 hours.

Note, there are plenty of bugs in the voice pack. I'd guess 90%+ of the voice lines are correct (correct content, correct voice)

However, especially in the Forge of Virtue expansion, some lines are spoken by the wrong voice. This is caused by bugs in my scripts that try to extract the voice lines from the Ultima 7 usecode (the assembly-like scripting language used by the game that all conversations are scripted with)

There are also what seems like a dozen or more errors in the voice lines. Some of it is hallucinations (which are a little jarring in audio). Also, I had to patch over a number of minor variable substitution issues. For example, when getting training from a trainer, the name of the party NPC that is getting trained appears in the trainer's text lines. For the most part these are replaced with they/them stand-ins in the voice lines. In cases where counts or money is mentioned, I often insert a cough to cover up the variable.

TLDR - this voice pack is very much an alpha, and the end of the forge of virtue expansion quest has a lot of voice bugs, but I absolutely enjoyed playing through the whole game with this.