Potential AEW commentary mod?

[iliketurtles]

Hey guys,

I've never made a mod before, but I do actually have a lot of experience with sound engineering.

I was wondering if we could start a discussion on how we could make an AEW commentary mod? I can help isolate audio from AEW shows and create the actual tracks, but my brain isn't smart enough to figure out how to install them into the game in a way that would be playable and not suck.

Hope all is well

[mattoriginal]

I've toyed with the idea of learning how to use Vocal Synthesis software. I think if someone learned that, isolated Justin Roberts' ring announcing tracks, the Schiavone commentary from Showdown: Legends of Wrestling, Excalibur shoot interviews, and JR's audio files from all the WWE games, you'd be set.

 

That's a ton of work though, so easier said than done. But it's crazy the stuff that can be done now a days.

[iliketurtles]

8 hours ago, mattoriginal said:

I've toyed with the idea of learning how to use Vocal Synthesis software. I think if someone learned that, isolated Justin Roberts' ring announcing tracks, the Schiavone commentary from Showdown: Legends of Wrestling, Excalibur shoot interviews, and JR's audio files from all the WWE games, you'd be set.

 

That's a ton of work though, so easier said than done. But it's crazy the stuff that can be done now a days.

I can't even imagine the amount of work it would take, but I have a feeling it's entirely possible. It would take a full team of 5 or 6 people at least.

[mattoriginal]

 

it's possible, but the amount of audio you'd have to feed an AI to get a result like this would probably be crazy. I imagine though, the commentators from the SvR Games would be pretty easy to synthesize since they have hours of dialogue recorded in a studio. Deepfake audio is wild though.

 

[aprilshea2002]

I was thinking about doing something like this with Sound Editor, but I wanted too change all the commentary files. I couldn't do it alone though because its a lot of flies to go through.

[iliketurtles]

It's definitely possible.

I think, at the end of the day, what would need to be done is isolate and label every single line of commentary in the game first. Then try to find similar lines spoken by AEW commentators. Example, "He got out of that one!" or, "Lou Thesz Press!" and replace those lines in Sound Editor directly. Unfortunately, EVERY single miscellaneous line like this would need to be replaced by an AEW equivalent line. At the end of this process, every single line of commentary would need to be replaced, I'm just saying it would be easiest to begin with miscellaneous/non-character specific lines.

Then, you'd have to identify all of lines in the game that would be specific to AEW wrestlers now. Example might be, "Sting is a WCW Icon!" and changing it to, "Sting is a TNT icon!" (a line spoken during his debut introduction).

THEN, you'd have the option to isolate all of the remaining WWE character-specific commentary lines, and replace them with generic/miscellaneous lines.

The very end result would be that 1. Every line of commentary in your game would be spoken by AEW commentary, 2. All of the AEW characters would have character-specific commentary and 3. All of the WWE characters remaining would have generic commentary (if you chose not to replace the remaining WWE lines, you would hear a mixture of generic lines spoken by AEW commentary and character-specific lines spoken by WWE commentary, which would be weird).