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Hello people of the Forums! I have recently started on a Halo 4 Machinima. However, I have a...lack...of voice actors. So that is why I come here! Hopefully there are decent voice actors here that are willing to lend their talents to my machinima. So if you're interested in playing a part, email me at [email protected] and I will email you a cast list so you can decide what part you think best suits you. Thanks in advance!

Hello people of the Forums! I have recently started on a Halo 4 Machinima. However, I have a...lack...of voice actors. So that is why I come here! Hopefully there are decent voice actors here that are willing to lend their talents to my machinima. So if you're interested in playing a part, email me at [email protected] and I will email you a cast list so you can decide what part you think best suits you. Thanks in advance!

Microsoft working on Cortana voice search service; Coming Fall 2015. Around September of last year reports came out concerning a new voice search service called "Cortana." Cortana has been confirmed to be voiced by the same actor who voiced Cortana in the Halo video games, Jen Taylor. According to an entry on msftnerd: "Cortana will launch first in beta on Lumia this April for US developers. The service will expand to the Bing app for iPhone in the US market this fall. The underlying technology will be extended to American Xbox One & Windows users in 2015 with Threshold. Availability in additional English-speaking territories will be spread out over 2015 & 2016." This service is likely Microsoft's attempt to rival Apple's Siri voice searching service. I'm personally looking forward to using Cortana as a voice search system, let me know what your thoughts are in the comment section below. SOURCE:MSFTNERD SOURCE:ZDNET ~All for One View full article

Tempest Larceny Signup Thread Tempest Larceny is a Halo 4 machinima currently in the stages of finalizing planning and looking for voice actors and body actors. It is planned to be an epicomedy. For voice actors, anyone is welcome to apply but not everyone will be voicing the main characters. If you wish to voice but don't get in, don't fret; there are other characters you need the voice. The one thing I ask for is this - if you are a squeaker, you're gonna need a reaaaal good reason why a 10 year old in in an unsanctioned UNSC base. How will you submit AND voice to me? Simple. For submission, I will provide exact lines I want YOU to say for the character you want to be, and you will record it in a voice reel. (Using a sound editing program, record one version of you doing one speech your character does, do it till satisfied, stop recording when need to, start recording again. Export as one large file.) Then sent it to this email, which is just retarded but its the one I have access to instantly. [email protected] Please don't have a crappy mic, and don't have any pops in your recording. You should play it back; if it sounds like it has pops, background noise or sounds bad, re-record, maybe with your mic a bit farther from your mic. I don't want a whole lot of background gain. I'll be picking people by not just the quality of their mic but also the quality of their speech. Do they capture the attitude of the character well? Are they suited for playing this character? Even better, are they, like RDJ for Tony Stark, having the exact same feel that the character needs? Add some emotion, some contrast in what you say. Don't read it like a book, read it like you're in the situation it dictates. If you can't rack your brain to put yourself in the shoes of your character and don't find the situation or anything about the character relating to you....don't do the character. There'll be parts that might sound better if I had scripted it with caps lock on. You are responsible for making it sound better. I want the best voice actors for their characters, and I think I'm allowed for that. Main and Recurring characters Note1: Only Taciturn is possibly female. This depends on if a female VA does the words better than a male VA. Note2: The name in quotes is their codename, the one they'll be referred to the most in the machinima. "Stormer", Named by actor choice Protagonist Armor: Actor Choice, must be unique Personality: Reliant and friendly to his A.I., he is the type of veteran at his job who isn't all 'grizzled' and 'battle hardened'. Still, he doesn't have a second thought in harming others if they are in the way of what he wants. Development through story: Slowly, he'll realize what he's doing wrong, how immoral it is, and change thanks to the ‘Journalist'. The loss of his AI will set him into a depression where he realizes that he can't complete much without him, until the revelation that he can make much more human choices. Submission script: "Hold up. You were deceiving us this whole time? I wasted blood, sweat and some other guy's car for nothing??", "Taciturn, you take the elevator down. The big one. Max, give the tech. Dex, run sims for our plan and relay any and all uncounted variables to my HUD." "Journalist", Named Andrew. Support Character Armor: Actor choice, must be unique Personality: Young and upfront, he is direct about his ideals and not afraid to stand up to the, but doesn't realize the consequences until too late. Submission script: "You, you just can't waste people's lives just because you want something! Whether it's moral or not, whether it's important or not, you can't go around for the sake of going around much like how my mom shouldn't waste money because she wanted to buy stuff!" "Uh, no. I don't live with my mom. Oh, and by the way, the car you blew up just to jump on. That, that was my spacebook's friends car." 'AI', named Dex [Taken by Jl1223 X] Support character. No Armor Personality: Helpful, capable but too full of the sense of duty, even though he is a good friend of Stormer's in the end his goal is to help achieve what Stormer commanded and not what he wants. Submission script: "Calculated that at this height, Taciturn has an 11.25% chance of not dying, a 3% chance of surviving with minimal injuries, an 82.95% chance of death upon impact, a 0.69% chance of death by the ventilation systems failing and Tac vomiting into himself due to terminal velocity and added variables of any form of death to take up the remaining percentages." "Good....bye....sir. I hope I....helped." 'Zudo', named Wallace Support Character Armor: Actor choice, must be unique Personality: The ordnance-man of the team, he loves big booms and big weapons. He'll be carrying a turret, a rocket launcher, a sticky detonator, grenades, whatever. He is jolly, and not afraid to crack jokes no matter where they are. Submission Script: "Hehehe! Rocket launcher, Turret, Grenades, The little red dot gun, what else am I missing? Oh, yes. The ordnance pod itself." "Hello, sir. This is my turret, anderson. He is my personal internet hotspot thingy. If I press this button, it can teach me exactly what your body armor's weakness is. And if I - oh, wait. That's an advert. And that's a lady with a thong." 'Taciturn', named Jake/Alice. Support Character Armor: Actor choice, must have 1 color be black. Personality: The infiltration specialist of the team, he/she is silent, relying on deadly tactics against his/her enemies. He/she only talks about things if he needs to, but can definitely be relied on if need be. Submission text: "Yes sir." "No, sir. That won't be necessary. I'll be jumping forwards. With Dex, I can time it so I'll enter the facility silently and behind everyone." 'Max', named Max. Support Character Armor: Actor choice Personality: The man who can organize things, he is a capable shooter but favors being at the back, concentrating on making sure everything works and nobody dies, being able to factor in any new info and any inconsistencies and chances to formulate the best plan available and capable of fluctuation. He doesn't always love cracking jokes, being very serious. Submission text: "Sir, Tac has taken the sonar devices. She's placed them all. We now have a map of the whole facility." "Would you like me to join you? There's an off chance that the device won't be at the predicted locale. I can help you find it, and take out whoever's in the way." Antagonists and enemies "Vector", named Zachariah Main Antagonist Armor: Actor choice Personality: Leader, definitive, and respective yet demanding to his henchmen. He is not that great of a fighter, but his ability to plan ahead probably beats Max's skill. Vector's only weakness is his arrogance, and even that he knows. During the first part of the machinima he is an 'ally' but is revealed to be the baddie later on. Submission text: "Yes, yes. I did deceive you. I wanted the tech because of the fortune. I promised you an extra because I knew you would want it badly enough to ensure success. And now that I have it, I have also ensured that you can't succeed again. So....how do you want to leave? By yourself, or by me?" "No! You can't do anything! Anything! How....how did you get here?" "Zeed" He's just that guy who Stormer has to fight alone while the battle rages around them. Armor: Actor choice Personality: Gives his respect and credit where it is due, but other than that, he is a cheater, fighter, and selfish. He goes for the money, not anything else. Submission text: "You can't defeat me even if you had 10 soldiers supporting you and that little AI of yours." "You are a true man...." Other characters Soldiers (I need multiple, so quite a few people can do them and get in): "He's attacking! Get him!" "Woah! Since when did people win with swords in gunfights?" "Hey! I just found a hotspo- oh, wait. That's a lady in a thong." "What? Hey, lemme see." "Get to cover!" "Watch out! They're breaking in to the vault!" "My stash! Don't look at that folder-hey! Privacy, mate!" "Grenade!" "Reload! Anyone got mags?" Guards (Again, I need multiple. You guys can get in easily.): "Out is that way. Out is this way too." "We will beat you to a pulp and send you to the citrus pulp factory place." "Am I right or am I right?" "You can't fight all of us at once." "They pay well, and don't check your browser history." BODY ACTING I'll be posting body acting sessions below, and also hosting games. Credits - will be edited Director, Scriptor, Editor, Producer: JL Stormer: Andrew: Dex: Zudo: Taciturn: Max: Vector: Zeed: Soldiers: Guards: Body Actors: Forgers:

Nothing, though I read some other topics about players with the same problem, and know why. This is to warn those who happen across this topic, and to add a stone to the balance. I KNOW THAT THIS ISN'T 343i'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE. So... I was playing BTB, and I bump into some people from Chile. (They speak Spanish there.) They find out I speak Spanish too, because of my GT, and I end up talking to them. A whole day later, I get the voice chat ban. I found out you can get voice chat bans if the majority of people "vote" on it, not if you're innocent or guilty. So, basically, I got a voice chat ban for speaking in Spanish. There are no rules that say "Don't speak in anything but English." that I'm aware of. Halo 4 can be set on Spanish, too. (I have it English because I like the language a lot and because it also helps me to think in it faster.) I think that's it. For the slower ones... Person finds people that speak Spanish. Person speaks Spanish to them. English-talking players don't like that. Person gets voice chat ban because English-talking players don't like that. By the way, I am NOT saying that of all English-talking players. But most have problems with not understanding whatever someone else says. Be warned that posting any questions or arguments that the answer/debate to have already been posted in the topic will result in you looking stupid after people read your post and be utterly ridiculed. Thank you for your attention and reading this far, unless you skipped to this part or were told about this topic and then made a comment on how you smartly "found a loophole" in something as irrelevant as not getting some thanks.

i cant say for certain if there is no voice over option for your spartan in spartan ops cause ive heard many people saying they dont have any audio coming from their spartan if the case is that there isnt any voice options i think it would be a nice addition, even if it is just the generic male/female voices. i liked having cortana feed me info and intell, so to speak, while i was doing firefight, kinda like my own personal ai just saying anywho if theres anyone else out there who thinks this would be nice to have back please shout... not literally

I don't know about you guys, and I know this is going to sound really knit-picky, but I really dislike the halo 4 announcer's voice. Yes it does sound a little like the previous games, but I feel it's too energetic ("OooverkiLL?" that's what it sounds like when I hear it). It doesn't sound like the master chief anymore (and I know it's not him in the other games reading what's going on, but to me it does sound a bit similar). I think my favorites for the voice was halo 3 and reach. I just hope they change it a little or I get used to the new voice! What do you think about this?

I'm new to the forums. So sorry if this is a repeat post. I loved in halo 3 how the grunts would scream funny things, or just do things to make you laugh. Halo 1-3 had a lot of funny moments, and it got to the point where comedy was expected, and Bungie did a really good job creating it in easter eggs and stuff. I am afraid that in halo 4, almost everybody has said that it is going to be more serious, and have a darker tone with Cortana, and Rampancy. Plus the transition from bungie to 343. (I know 343 is made up of die-hard halo fans) but there is still a possibility that the humor of the halo universe has been lost there. Also I was reading in Xbox magazine that grunts will no longer have face masks, but tubes going to their nose. The said that this was because "They wanted you to see their mouth, and they emphasized about it was mostly the teeth that they wanted you to see. He said that it is hard to be scared of a little creature with a shrill voice, yelling that was my friend! and running in circles when you shot its buddy. I pesonally liked that kind of humor in the games and I'm afraid it's not going to e in these new games.