Arcane University:XVASynth

Auto-Generate Voice Lines using xVASynth

By Elscrux (Skyrim only at the moment)

Step 1 - Setting up xVASynth

• Install xVASynth [1].
• Install as many voice models as you like.

Step 2 - Generating the batch file

• Open xEdit [2] and load your plugin with the dialogue.
• Run the ExportVoiceTypes script [3] and save the resulting VoiceTypes.csv file.
• Open VoiceTypes.csv and fill the second column with matching voice type ids that you installed to xVASynth. You can lookup the id for every voice type here: xVASynth/resources/app/models/game/voice_type.json
• Right-Click on the Quest category of your plugin and start SKVASynthGenerator [4].
• When prompted, open VoiceTypes.csv and follow the instructions of the script, then save the resulting DialogueExport.csv file.

Step 3 - Generating the audio files

• Open xVASynth
• Click on the batch icon in the upper right.
• Drag and drop DialogueExport.csv into xVASynth.
• Click Synthesize Batch.
• Wait until xVASynth is finished, the voice lines should be located in the main folder of xVASynth in their respective voice type folders. It is recommended to create a mod in MO2 [5] for them, otherwise drop them into the data folder. In both cases the folder structure should be: Sound/Voice/your_plugin_name_with_file_ending/voice_type_folders

Step 4 - Generating the lip files

• Install SynthUtil [6].
• Select the path to your voice files folder.
• Click ‘Start Process’

Step 5 - Combining audio & lip files to fuz file

• Install Yakitori Audio Converter [7] and put FFmpeg.exe [8] for Windows into the YAC’s main folder.
• Open YAC and set input format to .wav and output format to .fuz.
• Click File/Open folder and select your Data folder where the sound files are located
• Click Convert.