Hello,

I will relaunch an old idea I have got long time ago, and all national teams are invited to this project.

Each national team have to choose some representant to record some voices in their languages (male/female/and maybe also bots).

If this project is successfull pk3s of each country participating will be added with the mod, and then it is up to server admins to let them or not.

About soundpaks:

- Ppl who have the pk3 will hear the voices when they are on unpure servers even if server hasn't the pk3. - For pure servers, the server must have the pk3, else, you will not hear anything, but that doesn't cause to be kicked or anything like.
- Finally, for ppl who haven't pk3s, that will not change anything for them, they will not hear sounds and they will only see something like &fr_hello2.wav Hello! on unpure servers and just Hello! on pure ones

Note that there is already a moroccan, soundpak

The following steps is what each national team should do :

1- Find a list of lyrics, we can start with what exists as sounds and adapt some : (http://www.excessiveplus.net/docs/client.html#communication) et add somethings special for each language.
examples: - goodnight
- howareyou
- finethanks
- brb
...
NOTE: You will need to make a list

2- When lyrics are ready, the recording starts
The files syntax will be as follow :


xp_country_[f_|b_]englishsoundnameNUM.wav

OU :


- xp_country_ : is the country of national team you use in e+ (xp_country cvar) followed with underscore (_) - f_ : means it's a female sound
- b_ : means it's a bot sound
- englishsoundname : that's the english name of sound file describing the lyrics not having underscore (_) and being in lowercase
- NUM : a number starting from 1 meaning it's a variation of same sound as hello1 and hello2
- .wav : the sound's extension

exemples:
[code:1]===french soundpak===
//male sounds
fr_hello1.wav
fr_hello2.wav
fr_goodbye1.wav
//female sounds
fr_f_hello2.wav
fr_f_howareyou1.wav
//bot sounds
fr_b_hello1.wav
...

===polish soundpak===
pl_hello2.wav
pl_goodbye1.wav
...

===swedish soundpak===
se_howareyou1.wav
se_finethanks1.wav
...
[/code:1]

For the recording tools, the windows XP sound recorder is enough
[code:1] you can find it in start menu > execute
type %SystemRoot%\system32\sndrec32.exe
or,
start menu \Programs\Accessories\Sound record (or dunno what is called in ur language) :)[/code:1]
Other simple way that have a good quality for q3 use msn recorder, it works.
For professionals recorder, try not using a high quality sound, it's not needed in q3, it has bigger size and I don't know if it works.

NOTE: sounds on e+ have 320 kbit/s bit rate, ones comming from msn are if I remember well a 256 kbit/s, it was so enough for q3

3- Mastering sound length, after sounds finished some1 has to cut a bit of the sound from begining and the end of sound file.
I you are so bored to do it, I can help.

4- Last step is to create a pk3 and that's quite easy, I can do it when files are ready.
We only have to place the files in a folder sound\voices\ and zip it as .pk3 with a name sound_xp_country.pk3
ex: sound_fr.pk3 sound_pl.pk3 sound_se.pk3 ...

All soundpak must not have illegal content such as (hard) insults, racist words or even personal attacks...

To help you here is an xls file you can use to update/share/validate lyrics.

The work has already started with france national team.

gl