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A tweak of the voice used for female children which makes them sound like actual children.
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Higher Female Children Voice
This mod is an attempt to address the fact that female children in Fallout 4, despite being less than 4.5 feet tall and attending elementary school, sound at best like they're fixing to graduate from high school. (I will also add that anyone who is ostensibly 15 years old, the age of the voice actress, is generally not as short as an elementary school student.) The processing I employed puts the voice in line with the children found in Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
New in v1.1b: Added Marlene's holotape(s), Ladies Auxiliary Tape(s), and Julia Thompson. A note about the latter two: Miya Horcher, the voice actress responsible for most of the children in the game, was not used for these bits of dialogue. Instead, what it sounds like is two different voice actresses in their 30s trying to closely imitate the voice of a child. Regrettably, part of this imitation effort was a thin, nasal quality that sounds quite artificial. Modifications of the result can only push the voices in the direction of an actual child; they cannot eliminate this artificial quality. The result is nonetheless better than the original, in my opinion. (Version 1.1b fixes a flaw that existed in version 1.1.)
New in v1.2: Added Nat, Piper's younger sister. Also added Nina Rodriguez to the package. I had originally left Nat's voice alone, since by default it sounds more or less childlike. But I was recently prompted to re-investigate, and I've concluded that the vanilla voice doesn't fit the apparent age. So I've tweaked it. Users interested in retaining the original voice are free to use v1.1b.
I do not know about any further female child voices which may need modification.
Other languages: Japanese, German.
Female protagonist voice mods: Higher, deeper.
Male protagonist voice mods: Deeper, higher.
Companion voice mods: Curie, Piper, Cait (higher), Cait (deeper), Strong, Preston, X6-88.
Other voice mods: Super Mutants.
Other audio mods: IMPACTFUL NUKES.
Installation (as of 2016-3-21):
1. Follow the Fallout 4 Mod Installation guide to learn the latest method for setting up custom mods.
2. Patch 1.3 eliminated transparent support for .bsa archives, and there still is no way of creating .ba2 archives, so here are the options for installing as I understand them (copied from the mod thread). I have not found the time to test them.
(The following examples assume you want to install "Higher Female Protagonist Voice - Type D1.bsa". Replace this text with the .bsa filename of your intended mod.)
Option 1:
* Go to your Fallout4.ini under My Documents/My Games/Fallout4
* Under Archive section, find 'sResourceArchiveList=' without the quotes.
* Copy and paste this line and replace the existing line after 'sResourceArchiveList=':
sResourceArchiveList=Fallout4 - Voices.ba2, Fallout4 - Meshes.ba2, Fallout4 - MeshesExtra.ba2, Fallout4 - Misc.ba2, Fallout4 - Sounds.ba2, Fallout4 - Materials.ba2, Higher Female Protagonist Voice - Type D1.bsa
* Start your game and the voice should have change to your desired voice type.
Option 2:
* If you're afraid of messing up the Fallout4.ini file, you can just place the commands below into Fallout4Custom.ini. It will leave the original one intact and use the one in Fallout4Custom.ini while avoiding faulty ini file.
[Archive]
sResourceArchiveList=Fallout4 - Voices.ba2, Fallout4 - Meshes.ba2, Fallout4 - MeshesExtra.ba2, Fallout4 - Misc.ba2, Fallout4 - Sounds.ba2, Fallout4 - Materials.ba2, Higher Female Protagonist Voice - Type D1.bsa
* Add the name of the esp file of your chosen voice type (for example: "Higher Female Protagonist Voice - Type D1.esp") to the plugins.txt file, which is typically located in C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\Fallout4.
* Extract the contents of the archive to your Fallout4\Data\ directory.
Option 3:
* Use the Bethesda Archive Extractor utility to directly extract the contents of this mod's .bsa archive to your Data directory.
Other:
It must have been difficult for Bethesda to find an actual female child who could provide some dialogue for them. I've learned that the voice actress they picked is 15, which handily explains why they sound like they're in high school.
2015-11-18: Added the demonstration video to the description text.
2015-12-21: Added version 1.1 with probably the rest of the voices needing modding. 1.1 had a flaw which was fixed in 1.1b.
2016-01-03: Added version 1.2, which raises Nat's voice and adds Nina Rodriguez to the main package.
This mod is an attempt to address the fact that female children in Fallout 4, despite being less than 4.5 feet tall and attending elementary school, sound at best like they're fixing to graduate from high school. (I will also add that anyone who is ostensibly 15 years old, the age of the voice actress, is generally not as short as an elementary school student.) The processing I employed puts the voice in line with the children found in Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
New in v1.1b: Added Marlene's holotape(s), Ladies Auxiliary Tape(s), and Julia Thompson. A note about the latter two: Miya Horcher, the voice actress responsible for most of the children in the game, was not used for these bits of dialogue. Instead, what it sounds like is two different voice actresses in their 30s trying to closely imitate the voice of a child. Regrettably, part of this imitation effort was a thin, nasal quality that sounds quite artificial. Modifications of the result can only push the voices in the direction of an actual child; they cannot eliminate this artificial quality. The result is nonetheless better than the original, in my opinion. (Version 1.1b fixes a flaw that existed in version 1.1.)
New in v1.2: Added Nat, Piper's younger sister. Also added Nina Rodriguez to the package. I had originally left Nat's voice alone, since by default it sounds more or less childlike. But I was recently prompted to re-investigate, and I've concluded that the vanilla voice doesn't fit the apparent age. So I've tweaked it. Users interested in retaining the original voice are free to use v1.1b.
I do not know about any further female child voices which may need modification.
Other languages: Japanese, German.
Female protagonist voice mods: Higher, deeper.
Male protagonist voice mods: Deeper, higher.
Companion voice mods: Curie, Piper, Cait (higher), Cait (deeper), Strong, Preston, X6-88.
Other voice mods: Super Mutants.
Other audio mods: IMPACTFUL NUKES.
Installation (as of 2016-3-21):
1. Follow the Fallout 4 Mod Installation guide to learn the latest method for setting up custom mods.
2. Patch 1.3 eliminated transparent support for .bsa archives, and there still is no way of creating .ba2 archives, so here are the options for installing as I understand them (copied from the mod thread). I have not found the time to test them.
(The following examples assume you want to install "Higher Female Protagonist Voice - Type D1.bsa". Replace this text with the .bsa filename of your intended mod.)
Option 1:
* Go to your Fallout4.ini under My Documents/My Games/Fallout4
* Under Archive section, find 'sResourceArchiveList=' without the quotes.
* Copy and paste this line and replace the existing line after 'sResourceArchiveList=':
sResourceArchiveList=Fallout4 - Voices.ba2, Fallout4 - Meshes.ba2, Fallout4 - MeshesExtra.ba2, Fallout4 - Misc.ba2, Fallout4 - Sounds.ba2, Fallout4 - Materials.ba2, Higher Female Protagonist Voice - Type D1.bsa
* Start your game and the voice should have change to your desired voice type.
Option 2:
* If you're afraid of messing up the Fallout4.ini file, you can just place the commands below into Fallout4Custom.ini. It will leave the original one intact and use the one in Fallout4Custom.ini while avoiding faulty ini file.
[Archive]
sResourceArchiveList=Fallout4 - Voices.ba2, Fallout4 - Meshes.ba2, Fallout4 - MeshesExtra.ba2, Fallout4 - Misc.ba2, Fallout4 - Sounds.ba2, Fallout4 - Materials.ba2, Higher Female Protagonist Voice - Type D1.bsa
* Add the name of the esp file of your chosen voice type (for example: "Higher Female Protagonist Voice - Type D1.esp") to the plugins.txt file, which is typically located in C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\Fallout4.
* Extract the contents of the archive to your Fallout4\Data\ directory.
Option 3:
* Use the Bethesda Archive Extractor utility to directly extract the contents of this mod's .bsa archive to your Data directory.
Other:
It must have been difficult for Bethesda to find an actual female child who could provide some dialogue for them. I've learned that the voice actress they picked is 15, which handily explains why they sound like they're in high school.
2015-11-18: Added the demonstration video to the description text.
2015-12-21: Added version 1.1 with probably the rest of the voices needing modding. 1.1 had a flaw which was fixed in 1.1b.
2016-01-03: Added version 1.2, which raises Nat's voice and adds Nina Rodriguez to the main package.