HELLO,
I'm relatively new to hosting tournaments. Using TTD for my tournaments is by far my BEST decision. Just recently I really dove into this wonderful software.
We've all played in tournaments at local casinos and card rooms. My local casino (Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez) is where I play tournaments. They use a software similar to . . . or maybe it IS the TTD. But the announcements are robotic because they use a text to speech software that probably reads their blind schedule.
For MY tournaments, I didn't want the same robotic sounding woman. I happened to own a recording studio and I'm a producer. . . so I recorded sounds for MY tournament. Eventually I intend to release and sell sounds for poker tournaments on CD or downloads. I'm looking for shareware WAV file editor that I can include with the sounds.
Since the total file size is 1024 KB per post, I've compressed the sound files to mp3 at FM radio quality to post here. Of course, the files that end up on the release would be full band 16-bit WAV format.
ITS ALL STILL WORK IN PROGRESS. I'm working on it when I can find time. The testing ground is my tournaments. I just finished a set for my tournament.
Introducing Tara. She is the voice on the following samples. She is one of the singers that record at my studio and she has a very generic female speaking voice that is pleasant.
Here are some samples of what a sound bite is like when its professionally produced. I will post some usable samples I created for my tournament. If you have an mp3 file editor, you are in luck. most of the samples includes the clean version of the WSOP guitar tag with enough silence for you to edit out and create your own.
Three of the files are very particular to my tournament, although, you might be able to edit them to use in your tournament.
On the following posts includes Table Balance announcement (T_BAL TBL.mp3), one minute warning to end of round (T_BL_WN60.mp3), 5 minute warning during a break (T_BK_WN5M.mp3), and 1 minute warning during a break (T_BK_WN1M.mp3). Hope you can use these. They are generic.
These files are not for sale and can not be sold because they include the WSOP sound I recorded from the ESPN broadcast, which are copyrighted and I do not have a license for distribution. The final release version would include the "guitar tag" that was re-recorded in my studio. No performance royalties, only mechanical royalties for the composer.
IN MY TOURNAMENT, the TOURNEY DETAIL sound plays every 5 minutes during pre-tournament countdown. The COUNTDOWN 3M plays when the clock reaches 3 minutes. I also have one for the start of the tournament that starts playing at 10 seconds that announces the starting blinds and the mandatory "shuffle up and deal" by Tara. My tournament has an add-on during the first break. The BREAK ADDON sound plays when the first break starts. Of course every start of a new round announces the blinds and ante.
Check them out ! I'll let you know in a few month when I have a release ready. Of course if Cory would like to work out an arrangement to make it a part of TTD . . . I'm open for that !
Thanks