eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (12/25/90)
> But who supplied the voice? I received a couple of e-mail responses, this is from a NeXT employee who wishes to remain anonymous, published here with permission: |Her name is Elaine Clarke, she's a professional "voice talent" from |the [San Francisco] Bay Area who NeXT hired [...] for the job. That's trivia. Here's the interesting part: |Some interesting production notes about the making of GuidedTour: We |recorded her voice directly onto DAT at a nearby studio. We then |dumped the entire contents of the DAT into the NeXT using a |Digidesign DATA I/O box plugged directly into the DSP port. All of |the editing and mixing of the soundtrack was done using SoundWorks |(tm) from Metaresearch. We first "boiled down" the raw voice track |to eliminate the false takes, then re-timed the pauses and phrases to |match the scratch voice track recorded in the original Show and Tell |script. Finally, we mixed in sound effects (all the mouse clicks and |keyboard typing were added after the fact) and music generated by the |Ensemble demo program. As a finishing touch, we ran sndcompress to |reduce the size of the final sound files -- I think we got about a |6:1 compression factor in that step. -=EPS=-