Crowd-source NPC voice selection for NPC

[LouisGameDev]

hi @phyce, I checked our your new rl-natural-speech plugin, super duper cool!

I'm excited to talk about the development of the plugin. I'd love to DM on Discord @honglouis

Right now, the voices are pseudo-random, so NPC don't exaclty

sound how they look. I'm absolutely sure you are aware.
public static int calculateVoiceIndex(String name) {
int hashCode = name.hashCode();
return Math.abs(hashCode) % config.MAX_VOICES;
}

What are your thoughts on this? Off the top of my head, maybe we can implement a crowdsource feature where users "shift-rightclick" to assign an NPC with a voice.

Super cool, great job!

RuneLite_2024-02-23_22-30-39.mp4

[phyce]

Hey @TheLouisHong, glad you like my project!
Yes, I am aware of this. Unfortunately the voices do not come with any additional metadata so I was considering categorising the voices into male/female/neutral to make it somewhat more immersive. I like your idea though, I can see that being an option in the plugin.
I've got many ideas for the plugin, including an option to allow running multiple engine instances to busy areas to reduce load off a single engine process (at the cost o double memory usage though), and this would also open up the option to load multiple voice models at a time.
https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices
Pretty sure some of the models contain big amounts of voices (some higher quality), so it would be cool to increase the voice option pool.
If you would like to get involved I'd be happy to collaborate on new features for this plugin.

[SirFancyBacon]

I see the right click option was added; does this mean the crowd sourcing was as well?

[LouisGameDev]

Hi @SirFancyBacon,

No, crowd-sourcing has not been added yet. All voices changes are local to your profile.

[LouisGameDev]

@SirFancyBacon We envision a future where all the quest and NPC voices are expertly designed and crafted. We're hard at work!

The next update will have Gary Gilbert's voice, btw!

[SirFancyBacon]

Thats awesome!
If there is a place i can submit for these handcrafted NPCs; let me know! :)

[phyce]

I am currently working on a tool that will help us do this easier. Feel free to join our Discord, I will be announcing it there when it's ready.

[Svahnen]

It would be nice it we could just export and import our selected voices, then we can share them on said discord or have some templates pre packaged.

Is it possible to just take some folder from where runelite stores stuff and share that in the meantime?

[Phoro92]

That solution would be great — especially if we could assign, for example, all male NPCs a masculine voice, all female NPCs a feminine voice, and still retain the ability to assign specific voices individually when needed.