Generic Voice Clips

I am an actor and was wondering if there is a desire among the building community for generic voice templates, or custom voice acting for $L. I have done voice work before, including one mod for Half-Life which Valve bought and released with the Counter-Strike commercial edition. I have good equipment and can deliver files in high-sample wav, 320kb CBR mp3, etc.

Some ideas I had:

Generic time / date library. E.G. hour_01.mp3, minute_38.mp3, am.mp3, the_current_time_is.mp3 etc.

Gun library: (in militaristic tone) weapon_armed.mp3, ammunition_low.mp3, automatic_mode_engaged.mp3 etc.

Custom work - for example if someone wanted to make an imp that ran around telling jokes, I could record 30-40 different short jokes to be randomly chosen from. However that work would be more involved so I would want some lindens for it

What do you guys think? Is there a demand for scripted objects with voice elements?

The 'generic voice' thing can be had using computer generated text-to-speech voices.

I guess you have to settle for being a joke telling imp then.

I think that if you start by creating a few products and market it, you'll find that the market is there. Create the market, and customers will come

It may be that you can come up with something cool and generic enough to fit into many products, which would be the easiest from a workload point-of-view.

But I think it must be cooler than just a talking clock, we can see the time on the top of the screen anyway.

But a set of voice clips, complete with scripts, that can say any number from 0 to 1 million, may be something that many creators would like to add to their products. Maybe especially game creators. And it wouldnt take that many voice clips to cover it either. 0-10, 20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,1000,1000000. If I'm not mistaken, all numbers should be possible to say if the script plays a combination of those above.

Custom made voice clips may be too expensive for many, especially if they get too complex.

I hired a pretty well-known SL-DJ to do voice clips for one of my games. I already knew that a lot of people liked her voice/accent, and I just gave her a list of phrases I wanted the game to play at certain points. It worked out fine. The game has sold pretty well, and I have a feeling that players like the extra touch it gives with a friendly voice instead of just plain text.

I'd say there is at least a small to medium market for this. Also a market that could definately grow over time.

Yeah - a program called sh*ttalker (replace the * with the proper letter) has filled in nicely for me. It's freeware; just google it.