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1. Project Path C Users Nicolas Documents project fdp Banks tsugi bank project_bankOl Cancel Like for the other game audio middleware the first step is to select your project In the case of FMOD Designer this will be an fdp file The list of languages defined in this project will be displayed After choosing the languages of interest you can select the reference language To avoid analyzing the whole project including sound effects and music Alto lets you select the banks that contain dialogue Note that in FMOD Designer a waveform file can have a different prefix for each language in each bank so it makes sense to base the import on banks tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Importing a Wwise project Wwise is a game audio middleware from AudioKinetic Because dialogue files are treated a bit differently than regular sound effects in Wwise and therefore can be recognized automatically synchronizing with a Wwise project is very easy You only need to select the Wwise project the file with the wproj extension choose the localized languages you want to keep and indicate the reference language the default value will be read from the Wwise project as well Alto will find all the files automatically There is no need to select a category to which all dialogue files would belong to Project Path C Program Files x86 Audiokinetic Wwise v2014 1 b
2. New file ceation With New Name suffix _fixed Correct The first step is to select what language files we want to correct The list of the project languages is displayed You simply have to check the boxes of the languages of interest If you don t want to correct some specific files press on the Excluded files button However please note that the files you will exclude in the window that opens are reference files which means that all their localized versions will be excluded Note the files for which no error was detected during the analysis will not be processed so you don t have to manually exclude them from the correction It will not make the process go faster The second step is to select the errors you want to fix Only errors reported by an analysis can be corrected This means that if you didn t analyze the average loudness of the files for example it will be disabled in the correction settings window Obviously Alto cannot recreate the missing files However it can generate an error signal a sine wave at 440 Hz of the same duration than the reference file For example this may prevent a game from crashing due to the missing asset while making it obvious to the tester that this dialogue line has a problem Alternatively Alto can also replace the missing 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com D localized file by the reference file Again the game w
3. Ogg Vorbis and MP3 tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Creating a project from an Excel file Many game localization and recording studios use Excel sheets to keep track of the files to localize Alto lets you import and analyze the files referenced in Excel sheets First you will have to specify the Excel document and then indicate how the Excel Workbook is organized It is possible to choose between two modes of organization A single sheet with one language per column Multiple sheets one per language in that case an extra combo box will allow you to select the column in which the paths are written For both modes of organization it is also possible to ignore the first row of a sheet in case it is simply a header File Path IZAKAYA Transfer Alto TestExcel File PerColumn xlsx Read mode Fer Column ignore first row Available Languages wf English w Japanese w French w Italian w Arabic w Chinese w Russian Reference Language English Cancel All columns or sheets depending on the mode you chose will appear in the list of languages If some of them contain a different type of information simply uncheck them in the list to avoid taking them into account 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Importing an ADX2 project It is possible to create an Alto project by importing di
4. es i T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 it T ki _ ml J il m 9 9 OO fo fg fg In the project tree it is possible to play the selected file by pressing Space Pressing Enter will open that same reference file in the default sound editor The path to that editor can be specified in the settings window Control Enter will open not only the reference file but also all the localized files in the default sound editor tsugt 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Waveforms view By default when the user clicks on a reference dialogue file in the project tree its waveform is displayed on the right in the waveforms view side by side with a localized waveform which makes it easy to compare them visually However the languages of the dialogue files displayed can be chosen with a combo box on the top of the waveforms view and it is therefore possible to compare two localized dialogue lines in different languages T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 en_Dialogue119 wav T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue119 wav Sample Rate 22050 Hz File Size 352 24 KB Sample Rate 22050 Hz File Size 254 71 KB Bit Depth 16 bit Modified 07 02 2015 13 20 48 Bit Depth 16 bit Modified 07 02 2015 13 20 06 Channels 1 Duration 8s 178 ms Channels 1 Duration 5 s913 ms Heme jH we Band 4 Center 149 Hz Width 43 Hz Level 0 087 Band Cen
5. generated Depending on the extension Alto will generate an XML file an Excel workbook a PDF document or HTML pages The third optional parameter is a flag that indicates that the errors found should be corrected accordingly to the correction settings saved in the Alto project tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Support Should you have any questions about Alto s usage any feedback bug reports or feature requests don t hesitate to contact us directly at the following email address support tsugi studio com We value your feedback and we are constantly working with professional game studios and localization agencies to bring the features the most needed to Alto Don t hesitate to contact us To get quickly up to speed with Alto there are a several videos on Tsugi s YouTube channel https www youtube com user tsugistudio There are also some presentations on SlideShare http www slideshare net TsugiStudio alto tutorial slideshowen More technical questions may be answered by the two other documentations that come with Alto you can also find them on our web site Release Notes describes the changes that occurred between the different Alto updates http www tsugi studio com Support Alto 20Release 20Notes pdf Integration Notes describes how to integrate Alto with an existing tool pipeline or workflow In particular it explains how to develop Al
6. Alto is divided in 3 sections as shown below Dialogue lines File path T Test Audio Alto Speech Synthesizer FrenchGameDialogue tt lt Passe moi ton flingue Artillerie en position Capitaine nous sommes court de munitions l ennemi se rapproche dangereusement de nos positions Exterminez moi ces cafards A mon signal d clenchez la contre attaque Prenez les vivants nous avons besoin d information Feu a volonte lls ne doivent pas passer Ma mitraillette s est enraill e Missile a 3 heures Demande couverture a rienne Maintenant 7 Larguez les bombes Capitaine les parachutistes sont pr ts a sauter A S S A S S S S S S S S S S O G G O E G o a EE Eee i Speech A vos ordres mon capitaine Synthesizer cl fo Voice Voice French France gt Hortense Female Adult Rate 0 Volume 50 ii Format 16000 Hz 16 bit mono T Output Folder T Test Audio Alto Speech Synthesizer Filename Use dialogue text Use base name index Generate 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com The first section is used to select the dialogue lines you want to generate by importing a text file txt an Excel workbook xls or a comma separated values file csv Each line of these files except for empty ones will be considered a dialogue line and will be displayed in the list By default all are selected which means they a
7. Introduction As games grow bigger and become more complex the amount of dialogue they require increases dramatically Once localized it is not rare for a game to ship with thousands or tens of thousands of voice lines How to make sure that all these files are in the right format at the right level and that nothing is missing in all languages Checking thousands of recordings manually is time consuming and error prone when not impossible Meet Alto Whatever your naming convention or file hierarchy is Alto analyzes your localized dialogue files and compares them with the reference language reporting any errors it finds and even correcting them if needed Alto can also import the lines from an Excel sheet or synchronize with game audio projects from middleware such as Wwise FMOD ADX2 and Fabric Not only does Alto check for missing or misnamed files but it will also make sure that the audio format of each file is correct sample rate bit depth number of channels compare the average and peak loudness the duration leading or trailing silence of the files and even the timbre of the voices Alto generates complete error reports and statistics in XML HTML PDF or Excel format that you can then give to your client or manager Finally Alto is packed with very useful tools such as a batch renamer a loudness equalizer an interactive dialogue tester or a speech synthesizer which make it an indispensable program for any game or m
8. Missing files few A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue148 wav Missing files i A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue154 wav Missing files i R T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue155 wav Missing files i R T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue156 wav Missing files i FQ T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue157 wav Missing files i R T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue158 wav Missing files few A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue159 wav Missing files i R T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue160 wav Missing files fe A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue161 wav Missing files i A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue162 wav Missing files i A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue163 wav Missing files i T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue164 wav Missing files i R T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue165 wav Missing files i A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue76 wav Missing files few A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue79 wav Missing files A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue92 wav Missing files A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 da_Dialogue98 wav Missing files A T Projects Alto AltoTes
9. between the different languages and types of errors a set of buttons are available on the right of the error report Jumps to the previous language Jumps to the previous type of error Jumps to the next type of error Jumps to the next localized language tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Statistics The statistics button displays statistics both global and per language Pie charts and bar graphs are available for a quicker visualization of the results Global statistics show the percentages of errors per type and per language Then statistics for each language can be consulted to check the details as depicted below Statistics Total Files 254 324 32 34 errors found in 1002 files 113 min 15 s 203 ms 282 77 MB Format 72 Hai sil a2 167 167 fi les 18 errors Mm 19 errors 167 files 100 errors in reference English in Japanese British 53 76 MB 21 min 18s 188 ms 36 25 s6 167 files 7 21 errors 167 files 14 errors 167 files 19 errors in Italian in Spanish in German Error details Files 254 Extra files 0 Missing files 254 Format 72 Bit depth 32 Channels 3 Sample rate 37 Danish 9 57 of all errors 31 files with errors Files 19 O O re Format 12 SE 18 Format 167 files se 38 71 in Danish Error details Files 19 Extra files 0 Missing files 19 Format 12 Bit depth 6 Cha
10. cross at the top of its representation By dropping waveforms right below existing ones you can add variations to the dialogue line This makes it possible to test interactive dialogue like in a game where different samples are concatenated together at run time depending on the game context to create the final dialogue line _Dialoguel 6 wavy en_Dialoguel wav tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com The picture above shows a dialogue line built from 4 waveforms Although the beginning and the end of the sentence are always the same the middle can change there are 4 options for the second waveform and 2 options for the third one The waveforms displayed in light blue correspond to the variations currently selected for this dialogue line Playing dialogue lines At the top of the window are a group of playback buttons P Sample Dialogue 34 Random As a Export Audio If you click on the Sample play button or press Space the current waveform will be played back The current waveform is the one you selected last and it appears with a dotted white border If you click on the Dialogue button or press Ctrl Space Alto will play the dialogue line you built starting from the left and going to the right The current dialogue line is built from the waveforms which are displayed in light blue in each column you just need to click on a waveform to ma
11. is the CSV importer plug in This plug in imports a CSV Comma Separated Values file The first line defines the languages the first one being the reference Other lines describe the paths to the files in the various languages in the same order Importer plug ins will automatically have controls to select the path of the project to choose the available languages in the project and to define the reference language The CSV importer plug in is quite simple and only has these controls CSV Importer Path T Projects Alto GameDialogue csv lt 4F Plugin Cancel However if you want to add other settings you can provide parameter definitions Alto will detect them and automatically create the right interface for your plug in tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Tool plug ins In addition to the importer plug ins Alto supports tool plug ins These plug ins allow you to add new features to Alto They will logically appear in the Tools menu Similarly to the importer plug ins tool plug ins can expose many parameters for which an editor will be automatically created by Alto Alto comes with an example of tool plug in the Silence Trimmer Silence Trimmer 1o00 Input source Folder T Test Alto RootFolder Parameters gt Silence Threshold E Plugin Output Output Mode Output Folder Destination Folder T Test Audio File Suffix fixed Canc
12. of errors in these categories will be reported This means that for example if Level is selected all errors from type Average Loudness and Peak will be reported An extra switch labelled No Error allows the display of information about the files for which no error was detected It makes it possible for example to see what the variation between the reference and the localized languages was and if it was close to the error margin If the project includes many languages the small triangular arrows on the left and on the right of the switch rows can be used to navigate between them On the right the dual Select All Select None buttons offer a quick way to select all the error types and all the languages or none Another way to quickly select unselect a tab is to use the Tab key to navigate and press the Space bar It is possible double click on the name of a file in the error report to instantly switch back to waveforms mode where the erroneous localized file and its reference file will be displayed side by side for comparison It is possible to do the same by pressing Ctrl Tab A couple of other useful keyboard shortcuts are available when a file is selected in the error report pressing space will play the localized file and control space will play the reference file while pressing Enter will open the localized file in the default sound editor specified in the settings window To navigate quickly
13. the same time Some operations are very fast like checking if a file is present or not some take a bit more time as the file is open and its header checked e g for bit depth sample rate or channel number and others require the audio data to be processed Spectral based operations such as the centroid are the most CPU intensive as they involve the computation of a Fast Fourier Transform among other things However Alto is well optimized and the analysis is always very fast when you consider the number of operations it performs actually you can check the total number of assets and the total duration of dialogue analyzed in the statistics Language Level Compare reference language with J Average Loudness v Danish Variation allowed LUFS LKFS v French V Peak v Japanese Variation allowed v Italian v Spanish Timing v German v Total duration Absolute variation allowed eerie Relative variation allowed Silence in Absolute variation allowed seconds Q Relative variation allowed v Analysis Settings v Silence out Absolute variation allowed a Files Relative variation allowed 3 v Missing files Silence threshold U a o v Extra files Spectral Format v Centroid v File type Variation allowed 100 HHz v Sample rate Bit depth Channels Cancel 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Alto analyses can be divided in 5 m
14. their properties can quickly become cumbersome if you have to do it for every project This is why Alto also provides you with a way to save and recall presets That way if you always use the same set of languages and the same suffixes or prefixes or the same subfolders hierarchy you will only have to define them once CIK languages English prefixes CIK languages English suffixes CIK languages English subfolders CIK languages English prefixes and subfolders CIK languages English suffixes and subfolders anguages English prefixes S languages English suffixes 35 languages English subfolders anguages English prefixes and subfolders languages English suffixes and subfolders Ta Presets anguages English eba languages English suffixes TB languages English subfolders Name New preset Ada Cancel Selecting a preset will replace the list of languages after a confirmation message Moreover if you press the Edit button a new window will appear allowing you to create a preset from the current settings to remove a preset from the list or to rename it Alto comes with useful presets for the sets of languages commonly used in localization FIGS French Italian German and Spanish CJK Chinese Japanese and Korean ZPHR Czech Polish Hungarian and Russian and PTB Brazilian Portuguese Note Alto can read and analyze audio assets in the following formats Wave Aiff Flac
15. will detect that case and ask you to change the output option first tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Correction The correction can be started from the command panel at the top of Alto s main window It will first display the correction settings described in the previous section and then let you run the correction The following window will be displayed Correcting files A bart Only the files which have an error will be processed and only if that error needs to be corrected as set in the correction settings window It is possible to abort the correction at any time The correction can also be run directly with the last correction settings from the Processing menu by selecting the Correction command or by using the Ctrl C key shortcut tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Tools The Tools menu gives access to commands that facilitate audio localization in general and the use of Alto in particular This menu will grow regularly new commands are already in development at Tsugi to help the audio localization team in its work such as a generator for placeholder dialogue files or a function for automatic adjustment of the loudness of all files Note The Free version of Alto does not support tools except for the program settings windows Settings Here we describe the
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17. ALTO Audio Localization Tool ww User Manual version 2 0 MOJOU eatea NE aa EEEE TE EEE EAE EE 3 Manwa SE E AE EEE E EE E E AEE AE 4 Creating a new PLOjCCl MMMM sccscscsesessnecencnecpscsssasseesssensescensascneucneusseusseasesavenserneurssvease 5 Creating a PrGRSerrOrmiWaMi lCer cccccccssvccacssssscrssscscvavecercnasasaseensceranavavavavarasenasenenes 6 Creating a project from an Excel TIC cccccccssessesssesssssvavcvavarecesauessavaparevenenanseraueaeas 8 Importing an ADX2 PrOject ccccccccccccecceceeceeceeceeceeceeceeceeceeceeceeceeceeceeceeeeeceeceeceeceeeeeeaeas 9 IMPOrtiNg a FADicC PrOjECt cccsesssseccecsssseceeceseseeeceecesseseeceseseeeeceeceseseecesessaeeceeeesenes 10 Importing AN FMOD Proje ct ccccecceccsccscescescescescescescescescescescescescescescescesceseeseesceeeeseees 11 PME A VV O E i 12 General Notes about importing PrOjeCtS ceceessececcecesesssseceeceecesesssseeeseeeesceseseeees 12 A C UCG o o S MMMM ss cov ccnacsvessveasesassoaesscesseuceeacneacesassoesstassesesesancnacseer 13 Waveforms view DE A vctcvssnsrsascecersavssvanesesssavcacersnsseasanersansrscececersansavers 14 Analysis settings lt S ooaonanao noo oss ori sre reseso sorors veses sonoru onses soroes oss snos 15 ER o lt 5 is eb tia deliiaidd ch apobinbiovacb aos bayldiah dads vaste otaesbbacdevendasaientecsen 16 PO least asaya occronaeentoenanecumeniseageantuiesaneastnneannmnauieatravesa
18. G wav Create New File New file creation With New Name Reference S AFX_CREATUREGROWL_7_DFMG wav Suffix _corrected Cancel The left part of the window is where you select the files you want to process You can add files or full folders to the list the content of the subfolders is added as well To do that either use the command buttons or drag the files directly from the Windows Explorer onto the list If an Alto project is currently open you can also add all the files from one or several languages in the project at once by clicking on the Languages button If you made a mistake or want to process a new group of files simply press on the Clear button In the right part of the window you can specify the target loudness i e the loudness you want all your files to match This is the program loudness also called integrated loudness It is calculated for a whole file and it is expressed in LUFS Note LUFS calculations require an audio signal to be at least 400 ms long To be able to process very short vocal sound effects such has grunts etc we ensure that any file is at least 400 ms by looping it this is better than padding with silence which would lead to a lower LUFS value You can either specify the target value directly or select an audio file whose loudness you want your files to match In that case click on the From file button You will be able to select a sound file which will then be ana
19. S 3 LU and the localized file has an average loudness of 16 LUFS Since 16 LUFS is outside the valid loudness range an error was reported by the analysis If you select the exact value mode the localized file will be processed to match 23 LUFS exactly However if you select closest valid value then the localized file will be processed to match a 20 LUFS average loudness which is the closest value in the valid range and therefore minimizes the amount of correction needed reference file localized file A Exact value correction a To LUFS LUFS 26 23 20 16 Error valid range B Closest valid value correction 3LU LUFS gt 26 23 20 16 Fix tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Finally the last section of the correction settings window lets you control how the corrected sounds are saved Here you can decide if you want to overwrite the existing files or if you want to create new files If you opt for the creation of new files you can either save them in the same folder while adding a suffix to the original name or you can save them with their original name but under a different root folder Both the suffix and the new root folder are user definable Note When you choose to save the corrected files in a new folder no subfolders are created Therefore if several files share the same name they will be overwritten Alto
20. a root folder where all the renamed files will be copied in order to not change the original files Condition rule The condition rule allows you to check an attribute of the file and rename it based on this information Conditions can be nested or placed at the same level allowing to simulate and and or operations as well as more complex behaviors Simply drag the condition rule or other rules left right up and down to modify the logic of your renaming preset _ v Checking Samp i Condition Greaterthan condition Many file parameters can be tested The first obvious one is the file name It is possible to check if it contains or not a specific text or if it starts or ends with it Other tests are numerical they include the file name length for example if it is too long you may want to rename the file the file size and the date of creation or of last modification of the file For example you could decide to rename all the files from last month In addition the Batch Renamer can examine the audio header of a file and make renaming decisions based on its sample rate number of channels bit depth or duration For example you may decide to add the suffix HighQuality to all files with a sample rate greater than 44100 Hz For all these numerical tests it is possible to check if the file parameter is equal different greater than or lesser than a specified value Addition rule Using an addition rule
21. ain groups that we detail below Files This section checks the presence or absence of files and detects extra or misnamed files Missing files They correspond to the files which are present in the reference language but missing in a localized language Extra misnamed files They correspond to the files which are present in a localized languages but have no equivalent in the reference language This could be some extra data that has been mistakenly copied in a folder or it could be a misnamed file In that case you will most likely see two errors a missing file and an extra file with the wrong name LA Note the filename comparison in Alto is case insensitive Therefore the files dialogue wav and DIALOG WAV will be considered as having the same name Excluded files This button opens a new window in which it is possible to specify the files that should be excluded from the analysis for example if they are already known to be fine or on contrary to be temporary assets Select reference files to exclude from analysis m m fat oO m c A 4 LA m in M A Projects Alto AltoTestGen Voice I E F Wi LA m La Projects Alto AltoTestGen Voice l fil Gil oO oO iis liis liis m T fi T E m i i m m in toTestGen Voice m LA I A Projects Alto AltoTestGen Voice 1 iD LA Oo ol i la ff A Projects Al
22. alogue files directly from the ADX2 game audio middleware from CRI Middleware please note that ADX LE the light edition is not supported by Alto Project Path 3 Users Nicolas Documents CriAtomCraft BlockMusi Available Languages w Default w English w French w Japanese Reference Language Default Category Categzory_0 Cancel First you will have to select your ADX2 project file it will have the atmcproject extension Alto will analyze it and display all the available languages as well as their corresponding subfolder names as defined in the Language Settings in the AtomCraft tool You can choose the reference language among these languages or simply leave it at Default like in AtomCraft Because ADX2 does not explicitly make the distinction between dialogue and regular sound effects if you were to run an analysis at this point you would get many missing files errors as the sound effects won t have localized versions To avoid this you can also choose a Category Only the waveforms used in cues associated with that category will be imported and checked by Alto Note if you are using AtomCraft version 2 14 or possibly higher languages can also have a suffix and a prefix associated with them and there is no automatic Default language 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Importing a Fabric project Fabric is a game middleware from Taz
23. an also remove all the files from the list by pressing Clear Note than when adding folders the subfolders are also added recursively Adding languages require an Alto project to be currently open If that s the case you will be able to select one or several languages from this project and all the files in these languages will be added to the list Finally it is also possible to add files by dragging them from the Windows Explorer onto the files list Each file added as a little checkbox It will only be renamed if the checkbox is selected This allows you to quickly apply a different renaming scheme to a particular file or group of files All files can be selected deselected at once with the button located at the bottom of the list Renaming rules ym m m condition addition removal 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Four types of rules enable you to define how you want to rename your files While the rules are being edited the new file names are displayed in yellow just below the current names making it easy to see the result of a potential renaming operation The real renaming however will not happen until the Rename button at the bottom of the window is pressed During the renaming operation if the abort button is pressed the files will be renamed to their original name If the Copy to new folder option is selected it is possible to specify
24. ation an error is reported Note Alto shows unit which are commonly used by audio professional but may be less familiar to some members of the localization staff The default values should work well in most cases and present a good first choice For instance a value of 10 for the duration variation is usual It is recommended to start with the default values and progressively modify them only if needed tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Analysis The analysis can be started from the command panel at the top of Alto s main window It will first display the analysis settings described in the previous section and then let you run the analysis During the analysis a progress window is displayed that indicates the percentage of completion the file which is currently being processed and the time elapsed It is possible to abort the analysis at any time Analyzing and comparing files Abort The analysis can also be run directly with the last analysis settings from the Processing menu by selecting the Analysis command or by using the Ctrl A key shortcut tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com 21 After running an analysis Alto switches to the reports view in which you can see the details of each error and global statistics about the projects Details Danish Files Error
25. ct itself such as its name its path its file version the dates of creation and last modification and its author as well as information about its data was it imported from a game audio middleware project an Excel sheet a plug in etc what is the reference language how many files does it have and what are the localized languages Project name TutorialProject Project path Author Created Last updated Type of project Source project path Project Info Number of reference files Localized languages Reference language C Users Nicolas AppData Local tsugi Alto Tutoria BUILTIN Administrators 23 08 2015 20 50 41 24 08 2015 14 09 04 Folder C Users Nicolas AppData Local tsugi Alto Tutoria English US 20 French Japanese tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Integration There are several ways to expand Alto and to integrate it into your current tool chain Importer plug ins The Alto SDK allows you to develop plug ins to extend Alto s capabilities These plug ins can be written very quickly and easily in C The whole user interface will be generated for you automatically by Alto The first type of plug in is the importer plug in It allows you to get dialogue lines from your proprietary tool or database into Alto Importer plug ins will appear in the New Project window An example of such plug in is shipped with Alto it
26. e or partition Then you can add the languages you will work with The files Select your language for each language can have a prefix i e a group of characters Afrikaans af Arabic ar that will be added at the beginning of the file names a suffix Albanian sq Armenian hy a group of characters added at the end or even both Bengali bn ia Bulgarian bg For example maybe your files in Italian have the same names Catalan ca ee than your English files which may be your reference but are Czech cs eee prefixed with IT_ You can also specify a subfolder The Dutch nl English Australian en au English British en English Canadian en ca English US en us Esperanto eo Estonian et Finnish fi French fr Cancel naming convention and location of the files can be different for each language Italian is using a prefix but maybe French dialogue lines are coming from another translator and they have Fr suffix and files in Spanish have the same names than the reference files but are located in another folder tsugt 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Note a language can only be added once and each language must have a unique way to be recognized from the others This means than two languages cannot have the exact same combination of prefix suffix and subfolder Adding languages and editing
27. el The Silence Trimmer plug in lets you remove the silence at the beginning and at the end of a dialogue file First you have to select the folder where the files to process are located Then the silence threshold in dB must be chosen This is the level under which the signal is considered as silent Finally you can specify how the corrected files must be saved either with the same name in a different folder or in the same folder but with a suffix such as fixed for example tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Command line version You can integrate Alto to your build pipeline by using the command line version which is located in the same folder than Alto The name of the executable is AltoCLl exe The command line version reads the same project files than the GUI version This makes it easy to configure a project and keeps the calling syntax simple AltoCLI Alto s command line version Nersion 2 6 6 6 fc Tsugi G K 2815 AltoCLI exe project report correct project Specifies the Alto project to run textension alto gt report Mame of the analysis report to generate fcan have one of these extensions chtml pdf xls correct Optional Flag to correct the errors found As you can see above only two parameters are required The first one is the Alto project alto you saved with the tool The second one is the name of the report file that will be
28. ence file is compared to the one at the beginning of the localized file If it differs by more than the variation allowed an error will be reported The variation can be absolute in seconds or relative in Silence Out If this option is checked the duration of silence at the end of the reference file is compared to the one at the end of the localized file If it differs by more than the variation allowed an error will be reported The variation can be absolute in seconds or relative in Silence Threshold The Silence In and Silence Out analyses need to know from what level a signal is considered as silent The silence threshold corresponds to that value and is expressed in decibels dB Spectral The spectral section focuses on the timbre of the voice and is more of a qualitative analysis Centroid If this option is checked the spectral centroid is calculated Please note that this calculation can be time consuming as it includes the computation of a FFT Fast Fourier Transform The spectral centroid indicates where the center of mass of the spectrum is it is expressed in tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Hz Therefore it gives a good indication of the timbre of the voice A centroid variation can also come from a filter processing such as EQ If the centroid of a localized file differs from the centroid of the reference file by more than the allowed vari
29. es on your hard drive Windows Explorer will be started and will display the root folder of the source project Synchronize with Source Project This tool updates the reference and localized files either by synchronizing the project with the game audio middleware by reading the Excel file again or by scanning the root folder for files Because many files may be added removed or updated the last analysis report is deactivated and the analysis must be run again The project has been synchronized with the data in T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Interactive Dialogue Tester The interactive dialogue tester allows you to check that concatenated dialogue lines will sound as natural in the localized languages as they do in the reference one Creating dialogue lines When you select this tool the following window appears Dialogue Lines It is possible to drag reference files from Alto s project tree and drop them on the window to build sequences of waveforms i e interactive dialogue lines It is very easy to create and edit these dialogue lines to insert a new waveform in an existing dialogue line drop it at the beginning at the end or between two existing waveforms To replace a waveform drop the new one on the top on the old one To remove the selected waveform press the Delete key or click on the
30. iles will be saved in Wave format and will therefore have a wav extension Once everything is set you just need to press the Generate button to synthesize the dialogue lines You will notice that the little soeech bubbles on the right of the selected lines in the list become brighter It indicates that these lines have been synthesized By pressing on the speech bubble icon you can play them tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com 38 Batch Renamer Thanks to its versatile rule system the batch renamer tool allows you to rename groups of audio file based on complex conditions It does not require for an Alto project to have been created beforehand and therefore can be used independently on any type of audio file The batch renamer window is divided into three main sections On the left is the list of the files to rename in the center are the renaming rules and on the right are the presets Files to rename Renaming rules Presets B i gt A A files folders clea condition addition removal eplacement clea add v D Reference AFX_CREATURECHOMP_3_DFMG wav Renaming creature files AFX_MONSTERCHOMP_3_DFMG000 wav 2i m Removing Text Text temp V D Referenc AFX_CREATUREGROWL_10_DFMG wav removal AFX_MONSTERGROWL_10_DFMG001 wav J D Referenc AFX_CREATUREGROWL_11_DFMG wav ES names AFX_MONSTERGROWL_11_DFMG002 wav V D Referenc AFX_CREATUREGROWL_1
31. ill not crash but hearing a dialogue line in the wrong language will alert the tester that something is not right The other errors Alto can fix include Wrong sample rate Alto will resample the audio file at the correct sample rate Wrong number of channels Alto will increase or decrease the number of channels Note that when increasing the number of channels silent channels are added Wrong bit depth Alto will save the file with the right bit depth although it will not be able to make up for the lost accuracy due to a localized file being recording at a lower bit depth Different leading and trailing silences Alto will either add or suppress silence at the beginning or at the end of a file to match the reference file Different average loudness Alto will process the localized file so that it has the same average loudness than the reference file When an audio parameter accepts a margin of error during the analysis it is possible to choose between two modes of correction In the exact value mode the localized file is corrected to exhibit the exact same audio characteristic than the reference file In the closest valid value mode the audio parameter is assigned the value within the margin of error which will minimize the modification of the localized file For example let s take the case where the reference file has an average loudness of 23 LUFS the authorized range during analysis being 26 LUFS to 20 LUF
32. ke it the selected variation for its column Finally if you click on the Random button or press Shift Space the dialogue line will be played using randomly picked variations The dialogue line will never be the same twice in a row as long as you added variations During the playback a silent gap can be inserted between the samples The duration of this silence can be chosen at the top of the window from 0 to 1000 ms Checking localized languages Once you have built a dialogue line in the reference language you can check it in the localized languages To do so simply choose a language in the combo box at the top of the window tsugt 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com You can now play the interactive dialogue line you built in the localized language and it is very easy to verify that the timing is correct that the levels of the different parts match and that the dialogue line sounds natural If some files are missing in the localized language they will appear in yellow with the Missing File label like this jp_Dialoguellb wav During playback missing files will be replaced by a 1 second sine tone at 440 Hz If you noticed that something is wrong with the dialogue line in a localized language you can save it as a wave file by pressing on the Export Audio button located to the right of the playback buttons and share it with your team I
33. l also appear in this window Select the root folder in which all the audio files are a Folder located Files in different languages can be organized in subfolders or have prefixes suffixes Ok that includes th ns or different sheets Synchronize with an ADX2 project ADK Is i s A i a e Ferra E Ree erar el i niddleware from CRI Middleware L m O ol Fi ra fl Fabric New Project aon ms 3 ly midi iener project ID fnoc y si is s i a z niddleware from Firelight Wwise dF Plugin 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Creating a project from a folder This option allows you to reference the audio files directly by selecting in what folder they are Because the naming schemes and the ways to organize dialogue files can vary from one company to another and even between projects Alto lets you specify an optional suffix prefix and subfolder per language Root Folder T Test Preset FIGS languages English suffixes Name Prefix Suffix SubFolder French f Select subfolder talian it Select subfolder German elect subfolder c Spanish 5 Select subfolder English select subfolder ay Folder Cantel First you will need to select the root folder of your project the common folder under which all the assets can be found If your assets are in very different folders on your machine you can also simply select the driv
34. l look for FMOD Designer project files The FMOD Designer project files are text files based on XML with the extension fdp Wwise projects This is the default folder where Alto will look for Wwise project files The Wwise project files are XML files with the extension wproj Sound editor In some cases Alto allows you to select a sound file and to edit it in an external sound editor for example to fix an error This is the path of the executable that will be launched to edit the sound files Miscellaneous Open last project at startup If this box is checked Alto will attempt to open the last project edited the next time the program is started If the project cannot be loaded either because it has been moved deleted or because the user does not have access rights the program will start normally with options to create a new project or to load an existing one tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Edit Source Project in Tool This function opens the source project for example to edit it or to check its data In the case of a game audio middleware this means that the authoring tool Wwise FMOD Designer or AtomCraft for ADX2 will be started and the game audio project automatically loaded In the case of an Excel based project Excel will be started and workbook will be loaded Finally in the case of a project directly based on a set of fil
35. ll will be synthesized However you can uncheck the ones you don t need to generate At the bottom of the list there are also two buttons to select or unselect all the lines at once Note If you want to generate many dialogue files it might be more convenient to only select one line and adjust the voice parameters to your liking by trial and error and only when you are satisfied with the results select all the lines again and synthesize them The second section lets you select the voice you want to use Voices are available for many languages and can be male or female Some companies also sell character voices to complement the ones provided for free by Microsoft In this section it is also possible to adjust the rate at which the dialogue lines will be spoken as well as their volume Finally each voice for the Microsoft Soeech Synthesizer comes with a number of audio formats it can be encoded to i e sample rate bit depth and number of channels The Format combo box lets you select the type of encoding you want The third and last section lets you specify where you want to save the dialogue lines generated by Alto To that effect you can select a destination folder and choose how the files will be named Two options are available for the names of the files using the dialogue line text as the file name up to 255 characters including the path or using a common base name followed by a number starting at 00001 In all cases the f
36. lysed and its loudness will be set as the target value LUFS calculations are sensitive to channel ordering If you are planning on processing surround sounds you should select the right channel mapping Three choices are available DTS ITU default or Film tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com The channel mappings for these 3 modes are DTS LR Ls Rs C LFE ITU LR CLFE Ls Rs Film LC R Ls Rs LFE Usually though when working with dialogue or sound effects most of the files will be mono or stereo and you won t have to worry about this option Finally the last section of the window lets you control how the processed sounds are saved Here you can decide if you want to overwrite the existing files or if you want to create new files If you opt for the creation of new files you can either save them in the same folder while adding a suffix to the original name or you can save them with their original name but under a different root folder Both the suffix and the new root folder are user definable Note When you choose to save the corrected files in a new folder no subfolders are created Therefore if several files share the same name they will be overwritten Alto will detect that case and ask you to change the output option first Project Information The project information window is also available from the Tools menu It displays details about the Alto proje
37. man Audio which extends Unity s audio functionality Since version 2 2 the parameters of the Fabric audio components can be exported in XML format which makes it possible for Alto to synchronize with Fabric Fabric XML C Users tsugi3 Desktop Fabric3 XML Resources Folder C Users tsugi3 Documents FabriclestForUnitys Asset French tallan Cancel First the path to the Fabric XML file must be selected This file stores information about the languages used in the project such as their name prefix and subfolder It also includes the paths to the audio files referenced by the Dialogue component of Fabric These paths are relative to the Unity project resources folder so you need to indicate it as well Once these two paths have been specified the list of languages in the projects will appear At this point you can decide to keep them all or to remove some of them if you know that they are already bug free Finally you need to select the reference language before pressing OK When this is done the project tree of Alto will be populated with dialogue files from the reference language tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Importing an FMOD project Alto can import projects from FMOD Designer the game audio middleware from Firelight Technologies once their new product FMOD Studio has specific features for dialogue support for it will be added in Alto as well
38. nnels 0 Sample rate 6 tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Publishing The analysis reports can be published in various formats In all cases both the Details and the Statistics pages are exported XML XML is a text based file format that could for example be read by a third party tool One can imagine a game audio tool that would read the results of the Alto analysis and mark the assets as final or not HTML Publishing the analysis report in HTML allows it to be interactive and easy to integrate ona company s intranet for example Clicking on the name of the files will open another window and play them Excel Alto can generate Excel sheets that will look exactly like the reports in the software They could be used to make extra calculations for example or to integrate the results with other reports As for the HTML reports clicking on the name of the files will open another window and play them tsugt 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com PDF Publishing the report in PDF allows for a better quality when zooming and printing The PDF document contains an extra header and displays a Failed or Passed stamp This is the ideal type of document for a localization company to give to a client while delivering localized audio assets as a gage of quality Li exp o
39. omatically remember the previous renaming rules you edited as Presets This is convenient if you are often re using the same rules or at least the same templates with some minor modifications On the right side of the Batch Renamer window you can create as many renaming rules or presets as you want per session remove some of them or rename them Presets Renaming creature files mpact sounds validation Po4 names KBowOne names tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Loudness Equalizer The Loudness Equalizer allows you to select groups of files and process them so that they all have the same average loudness This tool is available even if no Alto project has been created Files to process Loudness target Loudness 20 065 LUFS From file D Reference Samples Adva AFX_CREATURECHOMP_3_DFMG wav Reference S AFX_CREATURECHOMP_3_DFMG wav Reference S AFX_CREATUREGROWL_1_DFMG wav Reference AFX_CREATUREGROWL_10_ DFMG wav Reference AFX_CREATUREGROWL_11_DFMG wav Reference AFX_CREATUREGROWL_12_DFMG wav Channel mapping TU Loudness Equalizer D D D D D D Reference S AFX_CREATUREGROWL_2_DFMG wav Output D D D D D Reference S AFX_CREATUREGROWL_3_DFMG wav Mode Reference S AFX_CREATUREGROWL_4_ DFMG wav Reference S_ AFX_CREATUREGROWL_5 DFMG wav Reference S AFX_CREATUREGROWL_6_DFM
40. ovie sound designer tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Main window The main window is currently divided in three areas At the top the command panel offers a convenient way to access the most useful features of the tool It is also where we can switch between the main modes waveforms and reports Onthe left the project tree displays the list of audio assets in the reference language Finally the right pane allows the visualization of the selected audio asset and its localized counterparts as well as the error reports and statistics after an analysis r Alto TAProjects Alto Test Projects test danishalto modified Lo amp File Processing Tools Help tsugt 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Creating a project in Alto consists in telling the software what are the reference and localized languages and where to find the corresponding audio assets analysis settings will also be saved in an Alto project file After pressing the New Project button Alto will propose you several options to get your dialogue files into the project You can reference audio assets which are on your hard drive directly or open an Excel sheet which contains the paths for all the files You can also import the dialogue files from a game audio project automatically If you build importer plug ins they wil
41. qeuin ter E A E E E 17 E EE IEN PEE E A E TAEAO EAE E A A A 17 MO e E 18 PE Messe gece cates E E A E EEA A E 18 PS e EEE S E E A E A etcaeentens 20 RODOS VOW ana E E E AE N EE A 21 DELIO arannana AE A E EE E EAE A E E 21 DU UNSC CS A E E ye anscaaneaaeic cunwiavaes 23 FOS UNS aini E E eect satwucadasueasde A A R S 24 OPP O CHOWN Ss SUES E E E E E E E 26 CON CUO a EE E E E OE E 29 TOO E A E E A E E A E E E 30 Program Se ttihNg Seena EE 30 Edit source projectin OOM aca caccecscuausosnensantanenc ocsasaeceestgutvevanieceunansaeiesanse omeatactananscemearahs 32 Synchronize with source PLOjOCt cseesssecescsssseceecssseceeceseseaeecescseececeeseseaeecesseseseaees 32 Interactive Dialogue T SteD ccccescsssseceecessseseeceseseeeceeceseseaeeceseseaeececceseeeaeecescesesaees 33 E CI SINE NC SIZ OM E teases E O A A E E E T ee secars 36 BCA RENANE T aa EE E E EEEE E E E 38 L dness EgUalZo aseene EOE EEO EEE ENE 42 Rea d LE A E E A EO T 43 PP Fat ON cs N E E EEE A O 44 IMP ORES PU I oea enpi Eee EEE A EE TES 44 OO MRO E a E TE E A 45 Come MOINS VOUS IO ccspccueitonacseraevanvswasstecscncabeascasniacsarsehduseaanetws deat seiaapauncoseeeaeenaseanes 46 Scso iae er Re eee ee nore ee ee eee 47 Annex 1 Keyboard SMEcuts ME ccccscsssscssecssssasancenersancavensansasercenersavcaversassasesanensassavencanenvans 48 tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com
42. rl S Ctrl Shift S Alt F4 Ctrl Shift A Ctrl A Ctrl C Ctrl Shift C Ctrl P Ctrl K Ctrl I Ctrl T Ctrl L Ctrl R F1 Shift Up Shift Down Page Up Page Down Home End Space Ctrl Space Ctrl Tab Enter Space Enter Ctrl Enter tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com In the Interactive Dialogue Tester tool Play Sample Play Dialogue Play Random Remove sample Compare in waveform view In the Batch Renamer tool Add new preset Rename selected preset Remove selected preset Add files Add folders Add languages Clear files Add conditional rule Add addition rule Add removal rule Add replacement rule Remove all rules Remove selected rule Select previous rule Select next rule Move selected rule up Move selected rule down Move rule out of condition Move rule in condition Space Ctrl Space Shift Space Delete Ctrl Tab Ctrl P F2 Ctrl Delete Ctrl F Ctrl Shift F Ctrl L Ctrl D Ctrl C Ctrl A Ctrl R Ctrl Shift R Ctrl Shift D Delete Up Down Ctrl Up Ctrl Down Ctrl Left Ctrl Right tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com
43. roiects Alto VAlto Mm Select All Clear gt m LA Cancel tsugt 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Format The format section checks the audio characteristics of the files but not the audio data itself File type If this option is checked the analysis will report any file type difference For example if a file in the reference language is in WAVE format and the corresponding file in a localized language is in AIFF format an error will be reported Sample rate If this option is checked the analysis will report any sample rate difference For example if the file in the reference language has been recorded at 48 kHz and the file in the localized language has a sample rate of 44 1 kHz an error will be reported Bit depth If this option is checked the analysis will report bit depth differences For example if a file in the reference language has been recorded in 24 bit and the file in the localized language has a bit depth of 16 bit an error will be reported Channels If this option is checked the analysis will report differences in the number of channels For example if the file in the reference language has been recorded in mono and the file in the localized language is stereo an error will be reported Level The parameters in this section allow us to ensure that the levels are coherent between the reference and the localized languages Average Loudne
44. rrence should be removed or only the first one or the last one For example you could remove the temp text from the file name or all the space characters because they are invalid for your target application Removing Text Text levels removal Occurrences Firstone You can also remove a part of the file name independently of the text it contains simply by specifying a position For example you can remove all the text after the 10 character or all the characters from the 3 to the 7 tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Replacement rule The replacement rule replaces a part of the file name with another text You can specify what text you want to replace by what and how often in all cases or only the first time or the last time For example you may want to replace creature per monster the first and probably only time you see it or you may want to replace all the characters by u ow e oo Replacing Creature Occurrences A E lacement With Monster It is possible to move individual rules by dragging and dropping them either vertically to change their execution order or horizontally to make them part of a condition or to put them out of it When dragging a rule a blue line will be displayed where you can drop it Rules which are to be executed when a condition is met will appear indented Presets Alto will aut
45. rt pdf Adobe Reader File Edit View Window Help ARREDONI OFEN SIOR 632 i 5 Oler Tools Sign Comment GA ALTO QA ALTO Audio Localization Tool Audio Localization Tool Analysis Report Game B gt gt Date 11 03 2015 17 59 45 gt gt Source project T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 gt gt Reference language English British gt gt Localized languages Danish French Japanese gt gt Analysis settings Missing files Extra files Bit depth Channels Sample rate Average Variation 3 LUFS LKFS Peak Variation 3 dBTB tsugt 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com 26 Once an analysis has been performed it is possible to correct the errors that have been found The correction settings window can be used to select which types of errors you want to correct for what language and where to put the corrected files To open it select the Correction Settings command of the Processing menu or press Ctrl Shift C Languages to correct Corrections Danish sf Corect missing file Create Error Signal FETE Corect sample rate Correct channels Correct bit depth wf Corect silence in Target Exact Value a wf Corect silence out Target Exact Value wf Correct loudness Target Closest Valid Value Correction Excluded files Settings Correction output Correction mode Create New File
46. ss If this option is checked the average loudness of the dialogue lines will be calculated in LUFS or LKFS which is the same If the average loudness from the localized file differs from the one of the reference file by more than the variation allowed an error will be reported Please note that if the sound is shorter than 400 ms the LUFS information is not available as defined by the ITU R BS 1770 3 document Peak tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com If this option is checked the peak loudness i e the maximum instantaneous loudness of a dialogue line will be calculated If the peak loudness expressed in dBTP or dB True Peak of the localized file differs from the peak loudness of the reference file by more than the variation allowed an error will be reported Timin Total Duration If this option is checked the total duration of the reference file is compared to the total duration of the localized file If it differs by more than the variation allowed an error will be reported For all the timing analyses acceptable error margins can be indicated either in absolute or in relative terms For example it is possible to set the allowed variation to 5 seconds which is an absolute duration or to 10 of the duration of the reference file which is a relative duration Silence In If this option is checked the duration of silence at the beginning of the refer
47. t is also possible to switch back to the waveform view to get more information about the selected waveform by pressing Ctrl Tab Managing dialogue lines Several interactive dialogue lines can be created and they are saved with the Alto project Dialogue lines are managed on the right side of the window It is possible to add new ones to rename them or to remove them Dialogue Lines Add Remove Clear Rename Need More Ammo Picked Up Health Kit You lost message You won message got hit Go after them Asking for reinforcements New objective tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com 36 Speech Synthesizer The speech synthesizer tool offers a convenient way to generate placeholder dialogue by using the Microsoft Speech Synthesizer In order to use this tool you need to have the Microsoft Speech Synthesizer installed on your machine If it is not Alto will display an error message You can download it from here httos www microsoft com en us download details aspx id 2 7225 The Microsoft Speech Synthesizer uses character voices More can be downloaded here https www microsoft com en us download details aspx id 27224 It is important to ensure that the version of the voice files correspond to the version of the Microsoft Speech Synthesizer you have installed otherwise they will not be usable The window of the Speech Synthesizer tool in
48. tGen VoiceFiles Test 1 subfoler da_Dialogue54 wav Missing files Format Error Reference Localized 8 A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFile da_Dialoguel wav Sample rate 16000 Hz 22050 Hz A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFil da_Dialogue10 wav Sample rate 22050 Hz 32000 Hz A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFi da_Dialogue143 wav Bit depth 16 bit 8 bit i A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFi da_Dialogue149 wav Bit depth 16 bit 8 bit A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFil da_Dialogue18 wav Bit depth 16 bit 8 bit i A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFil da_Dialogue46 wav Sample rate 22050 Hz 32000 Hz i A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFile da_Dialogue5 wav Bit depth 16 bit 8 bit A T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFil da_Dialogue52 wav Sample rate 22050 Hz 8000 Hz Sample rate 22050 Hz 8000 Hz A ALTO f ae a a _ Audio Localization Tool Details At the top of the report view two lines of switches let the user specify what type of errors he wants to see and for what languages It is therefore very easy to create a customized report with only the information of interest For example a report could be generated only for the format errors detected and only for the French and Italian languages 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com The options for the errors are the 5 main categories Files Format Level Timing and Spectral All types
49. ter Width Level Clicking on the waveforms will play the corresponding dialogue files In addition to the waveforms the spectral representations of the dialogue lines are also displayed as well as the properties of the sound files such as sample rate bit depth number of channels duration size of the files or their last modification time and date English British Reference T Projects Alto AltoTestGen VoiceFiles Test 1 en_Dialogue105 waw Sample Rate 22050 Hz File Size 213 82 KB Bit Depth 16 bit Modified 07 02 2015 13 20 47 Channels 1 Duration 4 963 5 If the file is missing in the selected language of course none of that will be displayed only the name of the missing file will be present tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com 15 After creating a project and importing audio assets the next logical step is to analyze them The analysis settings window allows the selection of the analysis parameters before launching an analysis To open it select the Analysis Settings command of the Processing menu or press Ctrl Shiftt A The analysis settings window will also appear if start an analysis from the command panel In this window it is possible to select the languages for which you want to perform the analysis and to activate deactivate the different properties you want to check Please note that not all operations take
50. three types of texts can be added to the name of a file a regular string of character a numerical index and a text generated by a macro tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com xo Adding Macro F Macro Sample rate addition Position End The text can be added at the position of your choice at the beginning of the file name at the end at a fixed position e g from the qn character or after a given text if it is found in the file name e g after the text voice In that last case it is also possible to specify if you want to add the new text for each occurrence of the text found for the first occurrence only or for the last one When adding an index it is possible to specify the number of digits the number should have as well as its starting value Several macros can be added For example it is possible to insert the time or the date automatically in the file name as well as the current user the name of the current Alto project or the name of one of its languages Audio characteristics such as the sample rate the number of channels or the bit depth can also be added Therefore with just one addition rule it is possible to add mono at the end of all the mono files and stereo at the end of all stereo files Removal rule This rule makes it possible to remove a part of the current file name You can specify the text to remove and if each occu
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52. to importer and tool plug ins http www tsugi studio com Support Alto 20Integration 20Notes pdf Concerning integration we have developed several custom versions of Alto as well as specific plug ins for game publishers Don t hesitate to reach out if you think this is something you may need our help with For the most recent information about Alto and to download the latest version check Alto s page on Tsugi s web site http www tsugi studio com page id 1923 The support page lists various resources concerning Alto which are available on the web http www tsugi studio com page id 2066 tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Annex 1 Keyboard Shortcuts Command buttons menu functions New Project Load Project Save Project Save Project As Exit Analysis Settings Analysis Correction Settings Correction Publish Synchronize Interactive Dialogue Tester Speech Synthesizer Loudness Equalizer Batch Renamer Alto Documentation In the report view Jump to previous error type Jump to next error type Jump to previous language Jump to next language Jump to start of report Jump to end of report Play localized file Play reference file Compare in waveform view Open in sound editor In the project tree Play reference file Open reference file in sound editor Open reference file and all localized files in sound editor Ctrl N Ctrl O Ct
53. uild 5127 English US French France German talian Spanish USi English US Cancel General notes about importing projects All these project types allow you to select the languages you want We recommend that you keep all the languages which is why they are all selected by default Later when you set the analysis parameters you will be able to ignore some of them if needed Examples of cases where you may not want to keep a language in a project are If you are a localization company and you are only dealing with a subset of the languages If some languages have already been delivered and you are certain that you will not need to test them During the course of a localization project new files will be added and existing files may be updated or removed If the project is modified while Alto is running you can press the Synchronize button from the control panel or use the corresponding command in the Tools menu to get the latest versions of the files tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Project tree Once you created a new project or loaded an existing one you will be placed in waveforms mode In this mode the project tree is located on the left side and the waveforms view on the right The project tree displays all the files from the reference language as they are organized on disk i e in folders and subfolders
54. various parameters available in the main program settings These parameters are not associated with a specific project but dictate the general behavior of the Alto tool Default Paths cts Alto Test Projects Projects Alto Reports C cri_atomex_tool_2_07_05 cri_atomex_tool_2 Fabric XMLs C Fabric Exports Unity Projects C MyUnityProjects FMOD projects C FMOD Projects Settin gs Wwise projects C Program Files x86 Audiokinetic Wwise v2014 sound editor C Program Files x86 Audacity audacityexe Miscellaneous Open last project at startup Cancel Default Paths Alto projects This is the default folder where Alto will look for project files The Alto project files are XML files with the extension alto tsug 205 e Kigyokan 2 6 2 Yoneyama Chuo ku 950 0916 Niigata City Japan www tsugi studio com Alto reports This is the default folder where Alto will publish reports either in XML HTML PDF or as Excel files ADX2 projects This is the default folder where Alto will look for ADX2 project files The ADX2 project files are Orca files with the extension atmcproject Fabric XMLs This is the default folder where Alto will look for XML files exported from Fabric Unity Projects This is the default folder where Alto will look for Unity projects For example the Fabric importer needs to know the path to the resource files of a Unity project FMOD projects This is the default folder where Alto wil

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