We know how weird it is to hear an OPFOR ("east") unit giving orders to his teammate in perfect English.
Since BIS seem not much worried about it, I think it belong to the community to provide a OPFOR voice pack, but first I wonder how a such pack would interest you... because it is a long work (I cannot do it just myself) and I would give up if not enough support and interest.
About the language : Some people think it would be nice to have a Spanish voice pack for OPFOR, some others incline in favour of Russian voice pack. In my opinion, they should not -or unless if those communities release it themselves- Because the
vanilia game doesn't very fit with a hispanic language, and OPFOR only have appearences and gear from ex-soviet bloc...not culture.
I looked for a kind of language wich could match with Sahrani. I've found "Esperanto" language
Esperanto is an universal-nationality language, simple and easy to learn. From my feeling it sound a bit latin with influence from eastern-europe language.
Advantage :
- Anybody can learn the pronounciation in few minutes, so greatly apprecied for voice actor : It doesn't matter if you are English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, German, Czech, Rusian or anything else.
- Since there is no Esperanto master around, no one would notice and complain about linguistic mistakes due to the way the game-core manage sentence & grammar
I would recommend you to try this soft
http://cursodeesperanto.org/kurso.exeOr you can also visit this website
http://www.lernu.netBoth are Esperanto tutorials, at least just check the pronounciation chapter if you wish to be a voice actor.
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I could achieve to translate each English/Esperanto words, and then record my own voice for a first set... But it would be too poor with just 1 voice set, so I desperatly seek voice actors !
As I said before, it doesn't matter about where you from, and it doesn't matter if you have a high soprano thin voice (I will correct that post-prod). You only need a microphone and know how to record (simply .wav file). But be warned, this will not a quick and short recording job... (many words!many files! I guess that's the reason why we don't have yet any other OPFOR voice pack released).
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But first and for now : what do you think about this project, good? bad? Would you involve ?
PS: not yet recruitmenet - still project