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199407.13 in reply to 199407.10
Date: 10/29/2011 2:24:33 PM
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Make it (at start) as simple as reading the very few sceanrios that could be.
Even just record the result change.
Make it sound mechanically at start.

Do you want this play-by-play in all languages? With all player names, too? I'll do my best to fit this into my LA schedule, if you bring the beer. :-) I don't think text-to-speech is the answer for any other purpose than assistive technology, and the BB's hardly have resources for that anyway.

A limited number of sounds for some special circumstances, such as buzzerbeaters, could be nice. Implementing them into the game viewer would, however, probably not be that easy. As is, any updates to the game viewer have usually been rather slow to materialize.

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199407.14 in reply to 199407.13
Date: 10/29/2011 4:05:12 PM
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Make it (at start) as simple as reading the very few sceanrios that could be.
Even just record the result change.
Make it sound mechanically at start.

Do you want this play-by-play in all languages? With all player names, too? I'll do my best to fit this into my LA schedule, if you bring the beer. :-) I don't think text-to-speech is the answer for any other purpose than assistive technology, and the BB's hardly have resources for that anyway.

A limited number of sounds for some special circumstances, such as buzzerbeaters, could be nice. Implementing them into the game viewer would, however, probably not be that easy. As is, any updates to the game viewer have usually been rather slow to materialize.
Again, it could start simple - with english only.
How hard can it be to record numbers between 0 to 150 and just connect score change into playing the proper numbers?
I'm not too familar with voice coding, but this level of code sounds kind of easy.

This feature can be enhanced when the time will come, but this will be something cool to have just by its own.

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199407.15 in reply to 199407.14
Date: 10/29/2011 11:33:55 PM
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What about some simple crown noises/boos/net swishes/whistle blows/time out noises/ etc etc etc.?

No on the commentary for me, i find all games that have commentary too annoying after a while.


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199407.16 in reply to 199407.15
Date: 10/30/2011 1:54:44 AM
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First you can turn-off the feature - easy to implement.

Second, what will you do in case you want to watch something else (work, program etc.) but would like to know what happens in the game?
This is a solution for those cases.

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199407.17 in reply to 199407.14
Date: 10/30/2011 2:12:55 AM
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Recording a bunch of numbers in one language and running them through a codec is no problem. Implementing a decoder into the game viewer is the real workload. If you had actually been around in this game long enough to realize it, you would know that the game viewer development that is visible to users has been an area of fairly slow progress. The good thing is that the game viewer quality has been high from the start (from season 3 anyway, when I started).

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199407.18 in reply to 199407.17
Date: 10/30/2011 2:39:39 AM
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Usually there are packages for simple stuff like decoders, and it shouldn't be that hard, but I may be wrong, as I'm not that familiar with sound decoders...

In any case, it is a "nice to have" feature anyhow.
If they have a solution, I think it will add a lot. If not, a shame, but one that can (continue and) live with.

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199407.19 in reply to 199407.18
Date: 10/30/2011 5:46:39 AM
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I guess one issue with audio is that you would need to download the bit stream files every time you launch the game viewer. Having a significant number of audio items would either imply high compression rates or significantly higher bandwidths than BB currently takes. Solving this problem in an efficient way is not trivial, and audio coders certainly aren't simple if you talk about the technology (downloading something off the Internet of course is simple).

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199407.20 in reply to 199407.19
Date: 10/30/2011 9:12:13 AM
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Again, I am not familiar with this field, but...

Why do you need to download it over and over again?
Add a plug-in, that knows to translate information from the site into a sound already saved as part of the plug-in.

In the end, when the score changes there is an information that is being updated at your screen.
So, I guess you can send as part of the information sent to the user the current score (for example) as part of the UML or something (again - a field I'm not familiar with), and just handle it with the plug-in.

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199407.21 in reply to 199407.20
Date: 10/30/2011 9:17:35 AM
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Then stop teaching us on matters you are not familiar with while refusing any con arguments.

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199407.22 in reply to 199407.20
Date: 10/30/2011 9:42:48 AM
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So, which plug-in are we now talking about?

From: rcvaz

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199407.23 in reply to 199407.21
Date: 10/30/2011 3:08:56 PM
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Point is, why blurt one idea that popped into your head when you can blurt 5000?

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