Revan Shan Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 Hi there, I do a lot of work in dubs and stuff on Youtube and for some companies.I was taking a look at the Tutorials for 0 A.D. and thought that it would look much nicer if they had a voice reading the subtitles. I can do that easily, so if you want some help with that just leave me a message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 Any examples? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revan Shan Posted March 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 Any examples? If you send me your skype I might be able to read for you righ away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted March 18, 2013 Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 If you send me your skype I might be able to read for you righ awayNo time right now, but do you have any YouTube video examples to show? You can just paste the URLs here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revan Shan Posted March 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 (edited) No time right now, but do you have any YouTube video examples to show? You can just paste the URLs here. I don't have any serious stuff in English, only in Spanish. But trust in me, I talk good English. Here is an example in Spanish: Edited March 18, 2013 by Revan Shan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revan Shan Posted March 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 here you have a Test I've done nowhttp://www.mediafire.com/download.php?c4fzo1xcguh21h9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quantumstate Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 I'm afraid I find it find it pretty hard to understand what you are saying in that sample. Your pronunciation is very unusual, this would not be suitable for the videos. Perhaps you could do a Spanish version, I can't comment on that though as I don't speak Spanish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGood Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) The 0AD team is very multicultural, and I'm going to assume so is it's following. I'm sure a slight accent won't be too big of an issue. It's very well presented, and if the subtitles stay there should be no reason for a misunderstanding by the listener.If it's a choice between an American accent and a Spanish one, I think the Spanish accent should win out in this particular context. Edited March 19, 2013 by LordGood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 I think it is precisely the fact that the team and fan-base is multicultural that any spoken-English we use have minimal ethnic accent. The voice should probably be either the "standard" American accent (the 'Midwestern' or West Coast accents used by TV news reporters, for instance), or whatever accent TV news reporters use in England. These are the accents the widest range of non-native English speakers will be able to understand (besides English in their native accents, of course). A slight Spanish accent would not be bad, but not ideal. A slight Spanish accent would be okay as long as enunciation is clear and correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Falcão Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 A note: It might be my contact (or lack of it) with the accent, but i find it difficult, sometimes, to understand the European English "standard" accent. So if I were to choose one over the other, I'd prefer the American English "standard" accent, which is almost always pretty clear, to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoot Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 A note: It might be my contact (or lack of it) with the accent, but i find it difficult, sometimes, to understand the European English "standard" accent. So if I were to choose one over the other, I'd prefer the American English "standard" accent, which is almost always pretty clear, to me.I agree. I'd only use British English if it had to sound particularly distinguished (Which it shouldn't, a tutorial is very hands-on.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha123 Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 I agree. I'd only use British English if it had to sound particularly distinguished (Which it shouldn't, a tutorial is very hands-on.)LOLI agree with zoot though. Simple, clear American English is probably what we want (i.e. not New York English). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGood Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 How 'bout Bostonian English? LolMost American English speakers have some degree of regional taint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderd17 Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 European English is normally more difficult to understand. This is natural.The smaller the group of people who learned the language, the more difficult it is. Take our dialect. Nobody learns to speak it, so it doesn't evolve very fast, and they don't understand me when I speak my dialect if I go 100km from my home place. On the other hand, African (which is also closely connected to Dutch) is very easy to learn, as people from different tribes in South Africa all needed to learn that language. So the pronunciation of different words is more uniform.So unless it can be localised, American English should be used, as it has the most uniform sound, and most people can understand it easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revan Shan Posted March 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) Er... you are missing the point fellas. Keep it simple. Do you want my voice in Spanish or English?(By the way, the Spanish example I made had to be a bright and young voice to show enthusiasm towards the public. I can make it deeper and more "epic" like) Edited March 19, 2013 by Revan Shan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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