Walk-up Name Announcement Sound Files - Detroit Tigers

[twins_34]

I am working on doing walk-ups for historic players. Im starting in 1985 and I am actually using Animaker for my voice because you can add pauses and even taking breaths and then like Bobble I use Audacity to record it and adjust it, add echo and even tame it down a bit.

My first team is of course the 1985 Twins
Dave Engle
Gary Gaetti
Greg Gagne
Kent Hrbek
Kirby Puckett
Mark Davidson
Mark Salas
Mickey Hatcher
Ron Washington
Roy Smalley
Steve Lomberdozzi
Tim Teufel
Tom Brunansky

[micropterus58]

Thanks for adding these. I'm surprised that walk-ups have not been popular.

[micropterus58]

I found another text to speech program that makes things easier by allowing you to save files in OGG format (WAV, MP3 and more available).
http://balabolka.site/balabolka.htm

[silvam14]

Originally Posted by micropterus58

I found another text to speech program that makes things easier by allowing you to save files in OGG format (WAV, MP3 and more available).
http://balabolka.site/balabolka.htm

If they could only add the walk up sound for somehow before you click the continue button


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[micropterus58]

Here are walk up names for the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates. Includes Indianapolis and Altoona plus any others on the 40 man roster. I hope the pronunciations are correct. My high school Spanish is a little rusty.

[twins_34]

Originally Posted by silvam14

This is really cool. I hope that the development team will enhance this in future versions by allowing for both teams names to be announced


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What they need to do is just like they do for different stadiums. Allow us to put the players in the stadium for stadium calls. Like Kirby Puckett didnt have the same walkup in Chicago as he did in Minnesota. I think having homefield walkups separate than all other walkups would be better.

As horn works differently and overrides the default horn sound, if the stadium folder has horn sounds, they should allow for player walkups to be the same way.

[twins_34]

That and we really need our own forum section because we are not in game text or PbP!

[nemolee.exe]

Does it work when a pitcher comes into the game to relief pitch? That's all I want to know.

[micropterus58]

Here are a couple of videos on how to use Balabolka to create walkups using a player's name. Use this with bobble's info for adding echo and reverb. YooToob has more videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fr_gyLB9dQ

How to add additional voices for some variety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA5Pthx8v4I

https://balabolka.en.softonic.com/

[Bobble]

If anyone wanders in and wants to try this, doesn't look the the Ryan voice is available anymore on naturalreaders.com (I hope he's OK). I'd prolly go with Davis(US). He sounds very stadium announcer-ish.

Also, if you wanted to do walk-up music, it's a similar process -- play the clip on the computer (from Itunes, whatever), let Audacity capture it within the computer, save as a player's_name.ogg.

[micropterus58]

Here's some tips.
You can use online text to speech programs or download a program which can use various voices for creating your own player names.

When creating player name files you often have to spell names phonetically or use a different vowel to get the proper sound. Sometimes spaces work. Sometimes adding an extra H will change the sound.

Sometimes you don't know the correct pronunciation of a name. Team websites may have an audio file or phonetic text. Sometimes you get multiple pronunciations. I used YouTube to find how to pronounce Anthony Alford (former Pirate, current KBO). I got "al ford" and "all ford" from different MLB telecasts.

You can change the text to speech voices depending on your version of Windows.
https://www.google.com/search?client...+speech+voices