How difficult would it be to "revoice" or add "voice options" to the tutorials?

[Drakenred65]

Just now, The Aziz said:

Sure let's hire a VA for every single English accent in existence. That's a problem only native English speakers could have, geez.

We do know, have you ever checked steam page?

I think over a year ago, because of a question , and honestly being a speaker of English and typonese I usually don't bother.

[Sovetskysoyuz]

On 2/21/2023 at 11:01 PM, poopslayer78 said:

This basically describes my reaction to the voice overs.  I'm actually having a hard time pinning down specifically what bothers me about the KSP2 tutorial voice overs to keep my criticism constructive.  I went through some other games with female voice overs during tutorials or instructions: Homeworld 1, Ixion, and Portal and tried to to a comparison:

1. All voice overs were extremely calm
2. The human character (Homeworld) mostly spoke the way people do in real life.  The AI characters (Ixion/Portal) had slightly more exotic rhythms, pronunciations, and word emphasis but never went overboard.
3. All speakers were adult characters

Perhaps "over acting" is what happened here?  My advise would be to tone things down and speak as if you were giving a lesson to teenagers or college students in a lecture hall.  I agree with @darthgently that speaking this way won't alienate young viewers and may actually hold their attention better.  The same voice actress could be used and do very well.

--- A few minutes later ---

OK so I just re-watched all the available tutorial footage: Missing The Ground and SWDennis Tutorial and the Training Center and honestly they're fine.  I guess after the initial shock I just needed 24 hours to get used to them and now I'm wondering why I got so worked up over this.

All this said, I don't think redoing the voice overs is a good use of time and resources.  KSP2 honestly has quite a few urgent fires to put out and complex features to add making it hard to justify ripping out something finished.

Thanks for posting the links; after watching I'm also not understanding why the voice is controversial enough for five pages of posts. The earlier description of "overly chipper squeaky kid voice" made me think it was going to be Mickey Mouse incarnate.

[SkyFall2489]

Well, I think what's really the solution is this:

If you don't like it, change it. If tutorials get a lot of modding flexibility, letting modders change the voice lines or even add completely new tutorials, it will be really useful. 

Mod exist for a reason.

 

[Drakenred65]

3 hours ago, SkyFall2489 said:

Well, I think what's really the solution is this:

If you don't like it, change it. If tutorials get a lot of modding flexibility, letting modders change the voice lines or even add completely new tutorials, it will be really useful. 

Mod exist for a reason.

 

I kind of doubt anyone will be interested in modding  tutorials that really only get seen once if that.  n