Fairbairn-Sykes Posted June 30, 2001 Share Posted June 30, 2001 I've searched almost all of the premier CM sites that offer audio mods and come up empty handed. The closest i've come is a listing of British voice file numbers - courtesy of Mr. Dorosh. The German voice mod that Scipio devised is excellent - perhaps he would create another for those who prefer a Lee Enfield to a K98. i just can't bear to hear "GOR BLIMEY" or "FIYUH ONLY ON MY OHDUH!" for too much longer. Chew on that pineapple, Fritz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warmaker Posted June 30, 2001 Share Posted June 30, 2001 I've noticed many times that when playing against British/Canadian troops, I sometimes here the "You bastards! Stand up and fight!" in an American southern accent. That's a stock CM .wav file since I've never d/l other voice mods, just the German ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted June 30, 2001 Share Posted June 30, 2001 You could try replacing those files with this - ?? http://www.thewavplace.com/sports/whistle.wav I tried to find a bobby whistle online but have not had any luck so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted June 30, 2001 Share Posted June 30, 2001 http://www.schoolsite.edex.net.uk/500/waves/copwhist.wav This might do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn-Sykes Posted June 30, 2001 Author Share Posted June 30, 2001 The Bobby whistle is a nice touch in place of BTS' stock "GO! GO! GO!". Many thanks for the ideas & sounds. However, when my boys of No.9 Commando are carrying out covert operations in the Aegean (or just trying to be stealthy anywhere) i don't want them blowing whistles. I don't know how much interest there is, but I'm thinking that someone with a solid [real] Northumbrian or Cockney (my accent won't cut it) has got to be able to record some voice files that are a bit more coarse, vulgar, off-color and/or just plain roughneck sounding. Something to give my immersion level a kick in the pants. How about some profanity during heavy shellings or some terrified slang when i'm surrounded. I'd really like something meaner sounding to shout at German prisoners. Maybe i should just chill out and concentrate on employing sounder tactics instead of esoteric sound mods... Thanks for your replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viceroy Posted June 30, 2001 Share Posted June 30, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> i just can't bear to hear ... "FIYUH ONLY ON MY OHDUH!" for too much longer. ] <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Fairbairn-Sykes Trench Knife, but most British accents are non-rhotic and will sound like that. You mention the "real" Northumbrian accent, do you mean the so called "burr" that was distinctive of the region? I doubt if you could find a speaker who sounds like that today. "Cockney" would be very easy to get. Accents have changed over the last 50 years, so we're not going to get anything really authentic. To give some of the Flavor you're looking for a mixture would be perfect ..... a cocktail, with some Scouse, Yorkshire, Glasgow, Belfast, Bristol, Cockney and RP for the Officers would be fun and not TOO hard to obtain. Recording isn't easy though. It's hard to sound relaxed as you read the lines and not sound either too hammy or too bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn-Sykes Posted July 1, 2001 Author Share Posted July 1, 2001 i agree with you Viceroy, a "cocktail" of accents/dialects would really add some flavor to the immersion. i like to get down into the foxholes with my men and see the fight from their perspective, so i hear all their vocalizations and screams of agony. however, i'm not so much asking for a diverse cross- section of accents as i am a batch of new phrases, colloquialisms, and gritty vernacular. anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warmaker Posted July 1, 2001 Share Posted July 1, 2001 Colloquialisms and vernacular in the same sentence. That's pretty good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfpack Posted July 1, 2001 Share Posted July 1, 2001 I like the idea...I'd also like to hear some new American voices. As much as I like hearing "My leg!" over and over, something new would be nice. I hope CM2 has more options for the sound files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted July 1, 2001 Share Posted July 1, 2001 My problem with English/American voices is simple: I'm German. I would try to make something, but I just don't have the 'ears' for it. I can't even say always if it's an English or American accent - so I have not the faintest idea which sounds need to be revised, or if the mod is better then the original. I can only recomment: a) Close Combat II has some - I guess - British voice files. They could be changed into CM sound format (I could change the soundformat, if necessary). A couple - we would need various voices - of our Tommys find together and roar into a microphone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn-Sykes Posted July 1, 2001 Author Share Posted July 1, 2001 hey Scipio, i really enjoy your audio mods (Sounds of Death & German voices especially). i would be interested in hearing the 'Close Combat II' British voices - i don't own the game. i have the necessary tools for conversion - perhaps you could email me some of the CCII sound files - if it isn't too much trouble. thanks for your ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted July 1, 2001 Share Posted July 1, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fairbairn-Sykes Trench Knife: hey Scipio, i really enjoy your audio mods (Sounds of Death & German voices especially). i would be interested in hearing the 'Close Combat II' British voices - i don't own the game. i have the necessary tools for conversion - perhaps you could email me some of the CCII sound files - if it isn't too much trouble. thanks for your ideas.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> If you give me your email address or contact me, no problem. It's not much, but - maybe - a begin [ 07-01-2001: Message edited by: Scipio ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn-Sykes Posted July 1, 2001 Author Share Posted July 1, 2001 how big would the file be (for only the British CCII voices)? how is it organized - in little snippets like the voices in CM? how's the sound quality? i realize i'm one of the few who are interested. i had hoped some of the British members of this forum would have grown weary of the Tommies' stock voices. maybe this detail is too petty for others who regularly play the British troops. anyway, Scipio, i will contact you about the voice files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted July 1, 2001 Share Posted July 1, 2001 I am interested in this also. Scipio, the two whistle files I linked to above don't seem to work when I try and put them into CM. I have no idea how to format them - can you help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn-Sykes Posted July 2, 2001 Author Share Posted July 2, 2001 this thread sinks like concrete shoes. where do the real Limeys stand on this one? maybe all you English cats prefer to play as Waffen SS. i might have to break out my Shure SM-57 (microphone) and scream "Bloody F-ing Hell!" into it if i really want this mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Aitken Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 I'm Scottish and I'm very happy with the 'British' voices, even if they are all cockney. It's quite unusual to get a small American company making a game that pays heed to other countries at all, let alone gets wee details like voice accents correct. I've heard some of the voices from CC2, and someone seemed to be deliberately trying to vary their accent, with unconvincing results. I wouldn't have been at all surprised if we'd got stereotypical posh English accents instead of cockney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viceroy Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 Fairbairn-Sykes Trench Knife. no Brit says "bloody f--king hell" ! It's bloody hell or f--king hell not the two together. I don't normally teach swearing I agree it would be nice to hear more voices. For the American ones I'd like some Texan, NY and Southern. I guess it's a question of someone having the time. Wouldn't it involve some big downloads though? Voice files can be really big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fairbairn-Sykes Trench Knife: how big would the file be (for only the British CCII voices)? how is it organized - in little snippets like the voices in CM? how's the sound quality? i realize i'm one of the few who are interested. i had hoped some of the British members of this forum would have grown weary of the Tommies' stock voices. maybe this detail is too petty for others who regularly play the British troops. anyway, Scipio, i will contact you about the voice files.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> It's only 10 sounds, I compressed them to MP§, so the whole package is only 106 KB. Generally, it would be a nice to make some soundrecordings, even if my German ears wouldn't have the benefit. But I could give support with changing the files into the CM-format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crepitis Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 IN response to the request for Bobby whistle sound mod,I have a pretty good Bagpipe sound mod that I got from a link somewhere on this forum.It sounds quite stirring when the officer gives the command to advance and your troops charge forward to the skirl of the pipes.Probably scared the **** out of friend and foe alike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted July 2, 2001 Share Posted July 2, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: I am interested in this also. Scipio, the two whistle files I linked to above don't seem to work when I try and put them into CM. I have no idea how to format them - can you help?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I've sended the file. Got it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Scipio: I've sended the file. Got it?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Got it, thanks! Will try it out. Napoleon1944 was the one who made the bagpipe mod; yes it is quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
British Tommy Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 I have also noticed those really dated British voices and they sound awful! the yanks must think we all speak with a cockney accent...LOL! I will attempt to do a few new ones ( with a Welsh accent! ) and will let you know when they are done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babra Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by British Tommy: I will attempt to do a few new ones ( with a Welsh accent! ) and will let you know when they are done.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I've always wondered what twelve consonants in a row sounds like. Looking forward to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boy_Recon Posted July 3, 2001 Share Posted July 3, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> no Brit says "bloody f--king hell" ! It's bloody hell or f--king hell not the two together. I don't normally teach swearing <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Wrong, wrong, wrong. "bloody f--king hell" is perfectly acceptable and not at all unusual. Stringing expletives together is, in fact, a minor art form. Remember "bloody b*ggering hell" from an episode of 'Absolutely Fabulous'? For Brit wav files i'd like to suggest, in no particular order: "Run-arahnd.........NAH!!" "Yew plonkah, Rodney" "We'rrre doomed. Aye, we'rrre doomed" If someone can tell me the technicalities of getting a wav file into CM, I'll glady have a bash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn-Sykes Posted July 4, 2001 Author Share Posted July 4, 2001 Scipio, i e-mailed you but got no response. i'm still interested in some of the CC2 voices. one could make a nice amalgam of sounds using CM, CC2 & the voices that these Poms are (hopefully) planning to record. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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