How to make ETW spoken comments by Gabriele Greco (gabry@promix.it)
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The speaker comment is made by a bunch of sentences that are chosen looking
at the game situation. The first 32 sentences are the names of the teams,
actually the spoken comment is available only if playing with the world
cup teams, the arcade section will need a completely different set of
sentences (maybe we can add it in a next version).

The team names have to be in the correct alphabetical order and in the
working language (if you are making the german .spk file you have to 
say Deutchland instead of Germany). It's also important while recording
team names to say a whole sentence and not only the team name to give
the correct accent to the name. This is valid also for the sentences
that needs a team name, for instance to record "loose the ball" it's
better to record "England loose the ball" and then cut "loose the ball".

It's important to record all the sentences that need the team name with
the same voice intonation and accent since all these sentences have to
be said with different team names! Be careful also when you cut the
samples, the precision of the cut is not very important for normal 
sentences, it's only important in the end of the team names and at the
beginning of the sentences that need team names.

The sampling frequence have to be 11025hz, it's better, if possible,
to sample them 16bit and then scale them to 8bit. The format of the
samples have to be uncompressed IFF. A program I've written (makecomment)
will get these samples and mix them with the crown sound (to hide sample quality
problems and to gain an audio channel) making only two files (for
instance: english.spk, english.sdf). 

To use makecomment the current directory have to be the directory where
the 11khz samples are located and where "fondomix", the crowd effect, is
located too. Then (if the samples are english.000, english.001...) a
simple:

makecomment english

should create the files english.spk and english.sdk needed by the game.

Please use the locale.library names for the spk files (english, deutsch,
italiano...)

All the sample have to be saved in progressive order 
(for instance english.000, english.001, ... english.035,...) following
the order of the list in the end of the document.

Please note that I'm italian and then maybe that some of the english 
translations of the sentences are not correct, feel free to correct
them and please mail me the correct version (and obviously sample the
correct version and not my broken english ones :) )

The sentences are divided in groups, with every group I give a simple
description of when these sentences are spoken, I've included also the
italian version of the sentences (if someone understand italian these
sentences are grammatically correct while, as I've said, are quite sure
not correct :) )
 
Sentences with TEAM (SQUADRA for the italian version) needs to be spoken
with the team name before (and cutted WITHOUT it), if your language want
the article before the team names (I think english don't want it but
italian do) you have to place the article in the team name, not in these
sentences.

Sentences with a Roman Number (II), (III),... have to be replaced with
sentences with the same meaning but with different words. These are used
to increase the variety of the comment.

000-031 (team names)

Argentina 0
Austria 1
Belgium 2
Brazil 3
Bulgaria 4
Cameroon 5
Chile 6
Colombia 7
Croatia 8
Denmark 9
England 10
France 11
Germany 12
Holland 13
Iran 14
Italy 15
Jamaica 16
Japan 17
Mexico 18
Morocco 19
Nigeria 20
Norway 21
Paraguay 22
Romania 23
Saudi Arabia 24
Scotland 25
South Africa 26
South Korea 27
Spain 28
Tunisia 29
United States 30
Yugoslavia 31

32-33
vediamo l'azione al replay!
let's look at the replay!

ecco il replay!
here is the replay!

(these sentences are spoken after a goal when the replay starts)

34-40
le squadre stanno entrando in campo.
the teams are entering the playing field.

il terreno e in ottime condizioni.
the field is in good conditions.

il terreno e in pessime condizioni.
the field is not in good condition.

il campo e coperto dalla neve.
the field is covered by snow.

gli spalti sono esauriti in ogni ordine di posti.
the stadium is full, every ticket has been sold.

sara sicuramente una partita molto interessante.
I think this match will be very intresting.

le squadre sono schierate.
the formations are ready.

(these sentences are spoken before the game, pitch condition is relevant for
some of them, the others are randomly chosen)

41-46
SQUADRA perde la palla.
TEAM loose the ball.

SQUADRA perde il possesso del pallone.
TEAM loose the ball. (II)

SQUADRA porta avanti il pallone...
TEAM carry the ball...

SQUADRA avanza palla al piede...
TEAM carry the ball... (II)

SQUADRA porta avanti la palla...
TEAM carry the ball... (III)

SQUADRA ha la possibilita di tirare.

(these sentences need the team name, are spoken usually when something occurs :), three of
 them means that a player of a TEAM is running with the ball between his feets, two
 that a player has just lost the ball in a tackle )

47-51
tira!
shot!

tiro!
shot! (II)

prova il tiro!
try to shoot!

prova la botta!
try to shoot! (II)

palla persa!
lost ball!

(the first for sentences are used when a player try a shot, they are chosen randomly,
 the last is used sometimes when a player loose the ball in a tackle).

52-64
uscita del portiere!
uscita of the goalkeeper

uscita sicura del portiere.
safe uscita of the goalkeeper.

(note: I've not translated "uscita" since I've not found a matching word on the dictionary,
 an "uscita" is when the goalkeeper left his goal to take the ball from the feet of a player
 or in the air to grab the ball during a cross)

il portiere blocca il pallone.
the goalkeeper stops the ball.

il portiere si impossessa del pallone.
the goalkeeper takes the ball.

il portiere para senza difficolta.
the goalkeeper blocks the ball without problems.

gran parata del portiere!
great block of the goalkeeper!

parata del portiere.
the goalkeeper blocks the ball.

il portiere para.
the goalkeeper blocks the ball. (II)

il portiere si distende in tuffo.
the goalkeeper blocks the ball with a dive.

il portiere non trattiene il pallone!
the goalkeeper doesn't block the ball!

il portiere respinge!
the goalkeeper doesn't block the ball! (II)

rinvio da fondo campo.
goal kick.

il portiere si appresta a rinviare.
the goalkeeper is ready for the goal kick.

(these sentences are used when the player does something, these are not chosen randomly)

65-69
ed e gol!
goal!

goool!
goal! (II)

gol!
goal! (III)

rete!
goal! (IV)

palla in rete!
goal! (V)

(5 different ways to tell "goal!", one of these is chosen randomly when a team scores a goal)

70-73
palooo!
post!

la palla colpisce il palo!
post! (II)

traversa!
cross-bar!

palla sulla traversa!
cross-bar! (II)

(2 ways to tell that after a shot the ball has hit the pole or the cross-bar )

74-82

rimessa laterale.
throw in.

calcio d angolo.
corner kick.

fallo.
foul.

calcio di punizione.
free kick.

calcio di rigore!
penalty!

calcio d inizio.
kick off.

l'arbitro estrae il cartellino giallo!
the refree shows the yellow card!

l'arbitro estrae il cartellino rosso!
the refree shows the red card!

palla fuori.
the ball is out.

(these sentences are spoken when one of these game events occurs)

83-86
palla a centrocampo...
the ball is at midfield.

si lotta a centrocampo.
the teams are fighting at midfield.

il gioco ristagna a centrocampo.
the game is played in the midfield.

la partita e molto equilibrata.
the match is very well-balanced.

(look below)

87-91
SQUADRA sta dominando la partita.
TEAM is dominating the match.

SQUADRA e' in balia dell'avversario. ***
TEAM has been dominated by the opponent.

SQUADRA mantiene il possesso del pallone.
TEAM keeps the ball possession.

SQUADRA ci prova sulla fascia.
TEAM is advancing on the wing.

SQUADRA avanza sulla fascia laterale.
TEAM is advancing on the wing. (II)

(note: the wing is the lateral part of the field)

(look below)

92-94
passaggio in profondita.
long pass

lancio in profondita.
long pass (II)

tentativo di lancio in profondita...
attempt of a long pass...

(this comment is valid for the last three blocks, these three blocks are critical since
 the sentences in these blocks have to be spoken a lot of times when the teams are playing
 in the middle of the field, some of them occur only with some condition, player position,
 player actions, result... some of them is chosen randomly, these sentences have to be the
 ones the famous football speaker of your country use to tell often)

95-96
e' un assedio.

si gioca ad una porta.
it seems there is only one goal.

(Spoken if a team is largely winning and it's still attacking)

97-105
il tempo sta per finire.
the period is coming to the end.

questa sara' probabilmente l'ultima azione.
this is probably the last action.

fine primo tempo
end of the first half

il primo tempo e' terminato
the first half is ended.

fine secondo tempo.
end of the second half.

sono iniziati i tempi supplementari.
extratimes are just started.

secondo tempo supplementare.
second extratime period.

secondo tempo.
second half.

inizia la partita.
the match is just started.

(these are time related sentences, the beginning and the end of the various period
 are announced with these sentences)