This is the last of our Valentine's Day videos, since the big holiday was yesterday. I saved this one for last because it's a little odd. Essentially, Celebrating Valentine's Day is a decent video. I mean, it's not mind-blowingly amazing or anything, but the video had a good idea driving it and the animation is done pretty well.
The oddity is the voice acting. All the dialogue is performed by AT&T's Natural Voices. On one hand, that's weird and it sounds really creepy. It's totally distracting from the rest of the video. On the other hand, it's a novel use of the technology, and I could see this kind of automated voice making its way into machinima. But for now, mostly weird. The dialogue itself is just fine, but the robo-voice just makes me feel like someone's selling me something. Interested in the wide world of machinima? We have new movies every weekday here on WoW Moviewatch! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an email at moviewatch@wowinsider.com.
I agree the voices are just creepy wrong. How hard was it to get someone to do dialogue? It reminds me of the professor and his wife on family guy having sex via keyboard like stephen hawking.
It could just have been made by someone who is self-conscious about their voice or acting abilities. I agree though that the computer voices are an odd choice to go with.
I thought it was really cute :) The voices are an understandable fall-back if you have no one willing to help you out, or you just can't manage to get a way to do the voiceovers done.
Hey this is Chatmay from The WoW Debutante blog. My latest project is not a machinima, but just a WOW footage homage to my guild. I happen to think it's pretty good, so I am asking you to check it out. But if anyone can help me figure out how to film or render without sidebars, I would be eternally grateful.
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bethontheharbor Feb 15th 2012 6:16PM
I agree the voices are just creepy wrong. How hard was it to get someone to do dialogue? It reminds me of the professor and his wife on family guy having sex via keyboard like stephen hawking.
makonlineaccounts Feb 15th 2012 6:33PM
It could just have been made by someone who is self-conscious about their voice or acting abilities. I agree though that the computer voices are an odd choice to go with.
RetPallyJil Feb 15th 2012 11:19PM
I thought it was really cute :) The voices are an understandable fall-back if you have no one willing to help you out, or you just can't manage to get a way to do the voiceovers done.
I give it a yay!
dk Feb 16th 2012 3:45AM
Surreal goodness, I love the voices and the comic timing.
The more I think on it, the more it is brilliant on several levels; smart stuff.
Jennifer G Feb 16th 2012 10:38AM
Hey this is Chatmay from The WoW Debutante blog.
My latest project is not a machinima, but just a WOW footage homage to my guild. I happen to think it's pretty good, so I am asking you to check it out.
But if anyone can help me figure out how to film or render without sidebars, I would be eternally grateful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQbIKnUKzQ
Teresa Feb 16th 2012 11:45AM
Im sad MS Sam wasnt in this one. Funny use of TTS voices.