>>53572003You're correct about the Piplup audio. I went through episodes and found clips where he spoke without music or other sound effects were happening. Same principle for harvesting audio of Dawn for the AI voice. Glad you enjoyed it.
The problem was that, while it may be easier as resources are built up, just that little segment was about 10 hours of work. Harvesting audio was probably between 3-5 hours of it (if not more) but there was also wrestling with the program to generate the lines properly to get the write tone and sometimes it didn't sound like her at all depending on where the sliders were. Factor editing in too.
This gets expensive if you're relying on a web app to generate these lines, I don't know if there's some downloadable option for AI generated voices like Ai art is available now but my rig can't support it and the amount of times you hae to re-run each line until it sounds right chews up a lot of the monthly quota one can pay for.
I would very much have too much fun eventually converting the whole story in a format like this, at least the first few chapters, but I would need to spend another 40 hours minimum harvesting voice files for May (who shows up immediately after that clip ends) and another 6 or so characters.
Maybe someday.
Have the sketch of the art.