Advanced Scripting Options

Tabbed Text or Delimiters ?

VoicePro supports 2 basic methods of communicating Filename and dialog text within your script. The first is to surround the filename with a pair of delimiters, for example brackets, with the remainder of the line as the dialog, for example

(filename1) dialog to be recorded into that file1. <CR>
(filename2) dialog to be recorded into that file2. <CR>
....... etc

In this mode you would specify '(' as the Filename Start Delimiter in VoicePro Prefs, and ')' as the Filename end delimiter. This would result in a filename called filename1 and a prompt dialog to be recorded into that file.

The second mode is to use a tab character to separate the filename and the dialog text. This is probably the more common mode, and it is easy to create scripts with this type of format from Excel spreadsheets, and filemaker databases, which are often used to manage the data for large dialog recording projects. In this mode, the script would look like:

filename1 <tab> dialog to be recorded into that file1. <CR>
filename2 <tab> dialog to be recorded into that file2. <CR>

To select this mode, you should check the VoicePro preference 'Use first TAB as delimiter'.

Additional Script Options

The 'translate other tabs to linefeeds' preference allows you to 'break up' the text onscreen, by placing it on different lines. This can be very useful for situations like pronounciation clues. For example, when recording a word which requires phonetic hinting, the script line might look like:
The first <tab> delimits the filename from the dialog, whilst the second <tab> can be used to break the line into 2 pieces on screen when prompting the talent. The resulting on-screen prompt woul look like this:

it's often a good idea to break your scripts up into manageable chunks, of less than 1000 lines. VoicePro's recording list has a maximum capacity of 1000 entries before you need to empty the list, so it makes sense to break your job down into pieces. Voicepro has been used for massive projects in the past, the largest of which was a 3 language speaking dictionary with almost 150,000 individual recordings.

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