After a lot of work, I got Windows TTS for Doom pretty much the same as it has been in Linux for a while now. While working on the Windows version, I noticed that a lot of people who were playing wre not native English speakers.
I added in a setting so that the language could be set, and if the language is not English it uses Google translate to translate the text to their specified language before sending it through as speech.
I am wondering how many people who use the Linux version in Linux Game Manager would be interested in this functionality?
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@storm Wait the linux version has TTS? I asked the ZDoom guys to do TTS and they told me to pound sand. Amazing! Can’t wait to try it out.
@drew it does with the caveat that the TTS is part of Linux Game Manager. You can play the Toby Doom project as is without tTS enabled, but the TTS opens up access to more game mods, and to more info in death match.
@storm That’s so interesting. So if I used it to play, for example, My House, would it read the status messages that pop up when you pick up certain things?
@drew It should, yes. I have only seen one mod, Wolf3D where it does not read those messages. It works with Project Brutality, Starwars, and Army of Darkness for sure.
@storm Well now I have to have it for windows! That’s so freaking cool.
@drew there is this huge article on the audiogames forum where a lot of the work is on going, and there's a lot of information from both me with the TTS stuff and one of the Toby Doom developers.