Voice & Voice Changer

Every character gets a hidden voice frequency the moment it is created. It has nothing to do with the player's real voice — it is a value attached to the character and kept on the server. Recognising a voice means recognising that frequency.

The voice bar only fills face to face. A voice over the radio or a phone does not count.

#Picking a voice system

Auto order: pma-voice → saltychat → yaca-voice → tokovoip_script → native.

Details per system, including the settings to change on their side: Voice Systems.

#Config.Voice

#The automatic voice check

Config.Voice.AutoLowTrust watches for voice scripts that report talking unreliably. When it switches on, voice results on your server are flagged for admins, and the console says so:

[5code-recognition] Voice detection is low-trust on this server (provider: enhanced). Voice results are flagged for admins.

recognition:status shows your players' voice providers and whether that flag is on.

#The voice changer

Config.VoiceChanger = {
    BatterySeconds = 600,
    DrainWhile = 'on',
    AudibleEffect = 'auto',
    EffectRange = 30.0,
    DefaultPreset = 'random',
    CheckpointPct = 10,
    ResetFlashMs = 1000,
}

#Presets

Three ship by default. They are pma-voice radio-filter settings.

Presets = {
    robot   = { label = 'Robot',   fx = { freq_low = 200.0, freq_hi = 5000.0, rm_mod_freq = 50.0, rm_mix = 0.55, fudge = 0.0, o_freq_lo = 200.0, o_freq_hi = 5000.0 } },
    radio   = { label = 'Radio',   fx = { freq_low = 500.0, freq_hi = 3000.0, rm_mod_freq = 0.0,  rm_mix = 0.0,  fudge = 0.4, o_freq_lo = 500.0, o_freq_hi = 3000.0 } },
    muffled = { label = 'Muffled', fx = { freq_low = 100.0, freq_hi = 1200.0, rm_mod_freq = 0.0,  rm_mix = 0.0,  fudge = 0.0, o_freq_lo = 100.0, o_freq_hi = 1200.0 } },
}

#What the battery running out does

The device stops. The scanner's voice bar resets to zero and the icon flashes orange, and from that moment the scan starts learning the wearer's real frequency. The wearer is warned before it happens (Config.Battery.WarnAtPct, default at 20 % and 5 %).

#What a fake voice is worth

Config.Scoring.FakeVoiceFactor (default 0.50) halves the voice points a changed voice contributes — 20 of the 40. See Scanning & Scoring.

The bar itself still fills to 100 %, because bars show what you observed. You did hear a voice clearly; it just was not theirs.

#Being caught with one

Config.MagneticScanner.DetectVoiceChanger decides whether a magnetic scanner picks up a voice changer at all. Default: 'off'. See Devices & Reports.

#Batteries