Why do it that way, when there exists an easier way.
Basically, allow the user to set all the charactoristics of the charactors voice (eg, sex, pitch, speed, accent,...) so that they can sound like a 13 year old kid or a old italian gentleman, and then use TEXT TO SPEECH.
yes, you heard right. Have the client''s computer convert whatever the other person said to speech! If you apply a 3d sound algo to it, you can have it sound like they spoke from behind or to your left....
13 year old kid warrior sneaks behind 27 year old mage.
13 year old kid types.
27 year old mage hears, in an evil, omnipitent voice, "behind you"
27 year old mage whips around and recieves a sword in the skull
27 year old mage runs like a 13 year old complaining about pk''s
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hehehe
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