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Clock Voice Methods
Clocks tend to have that distinctive synthesised voice. It comes from "Text To Speech" software, which interprets a text message and generates an audio output based on that. It is not really important which program you use, or what voice setting you use. But there is a lot of coice:
Saving sound directly from your computer's audio output.
Some of these softwares don't give the option to save or download the audio output. In order to get around this problem, you can just save the sound directly from your computer's soundcard, with no interference. StrangeClock has written a tutorial on how to do this.
Mac Users Can Play Too
Mac users wishing to use the Apple text-to-speech voices can use a program called Orator to generate AIFF files of text-to-speech output, which can then be converted to MP3 using iTunes.
Human Voices in Clock Animations
But, as charming and ClockCrew-esque as the synthesised voices are, don't be afraid to use real voices in your animations. One lesson learned repeatedly by the Clock Crew is that it pays to be different. Often a real voice can achieve an intonation or degree of subtlety that a digitally-synthesised voice cannot. And there are plenty of great voice actors in the ClockCrew and on Newgrounds that will be able to help you voice your Flash projects.
The works will then be reviewed and comments will be given to help the artist improve their work. The Academy usually lasts 2-4 hours. It's OK to leave early, but best if you arrive on time.
To get into the Flash Academy, follow these steps:
If you have mIRC-
1. Open mIRC
2. Type /server irc.riscy.nl
3. Type /join #flashacademy
If you don't have mIRC-
1. Click the ClockCrew.net option at the top of the forum
2. Select "Java Chat"
3. Type /join #flashacademy
