What is Telltale Speech Extractor ?:
A program that enables you to rip the voices and sfx from all games released by Telltale Games. To date (October 2007) that includes:

• Bone: Out From Boneville
• Bone: The Great Cow Race
• Crime Scene Investigation - 3 Dimensions of Murder
• Crime Scene Investigation - Hard Evidence
• Sam and Max: Season 1:
• Sam and Max: Culture Shock
• Sam and Max: Situation Comedy
• Sam and Max: The Mole The Mob And The Meatball
• Sam and Max: Abe Lincoln Must Die
• Sam and Max: Reality 2.0
• Sam and Max: Bright Side Of The Moon
• Telltale Texas Hold’em

It should also work with future games, provided that the file format doesnt change.

What do I need to use this?:
Just the games themselves.

How to use it:

• Click Open and either click on open folder and choose a folder yourself or choose one of the games and the files will automatically be found.


• Click the Play Sound button or press enter to play the currently selected sound.


• Click Save File to save a sound as a WAV or MP3 file (MP3 is the default). The MP3 files will automatically be tagged with the annotation.


• Click Save All Files to save the sounds as WAV or MP3.


• Click the Annotations button to edit annotations. See the 'Annotations' section below for more information.

Filtering the sounds:

• Click on the View button to show a list of all the categories (characters), selecting one of these changes the view so that only sounds in that category are visible.


• To reset the view and show all categories, click the button again and click View All Files.

Searching the sounds:

• To search just type in the search box. Searching ignores any filter that you've used. I.e. the view will be reset to 'All Files'. The search looks in file names and annotations and is an 'instant search' - the search happens as you type.


• To reset the view either delete the text in the search box or click the View button and select View all files.

Annotations:
The sounds do not contain any textual information about their contents beyond the filename. To assist with this problem Telltale Speech Extractor supports annotations.

Annotations are descriptive names given to sounds. They list what is said and what character says it. This allows the sounds to be easily browsed, filtered and searched. They are also used when a sound is saved as an MP3. Windows imposes a limit on the length of file names, so its difficult to make a descriptive filename with the limited numbers of characters available. To counter this Telltale Speech Extractor embeds the sound's annotation inside the MP3 as an ID3 tag. This makes it much easier to identify and find the sounds in Windows and music players.

The program comes with annotations for every Telltale game currently available, they are not 100% complete though. In every game, there are some sounds that don't have annotations, however the annotations can be changed and new ones added. Clicking the Annotations button brings up the annotation editing panel. In here you can edit annotations, change and add annotation categories. Remember to click the Save Changes button when you're done, as the annotations are not automatically saved.

If you add annotations to a game, please send me your updated annotation files so that I can add them to the next release of the program. The annotation files are just standard ini files, they can be found in the 'Annotations' folder and have the file extension '.annot'.

Bugs/Limitations:
Annotations are limited to 300 characters. If they are longer than this then only the first 300 characters are used. Most annotations are far shorter than this, it only really affects CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder, where a few annotations are longer than this.

There are no annotations for CSI: Hard Evidence. I dont have this game so I havent been able to try and auto-extract the dialog. There is a skeleton annotation file - it just needs someone to add all the annotations to it.

The tool only rips audio from the .vox speech files. If you want to rip the .aud music files then download Telltale Music Extractor from my website.

Credits and thanks:

• Annotation Icon from Buff Set by Mattahan
  http://mattahan.deviantart.com


• Clear, Add and Undo icons from the TiiconCollection by Timon Freitag
  http://projects.ff22.de/tiicon/


• Dave - for doing the Delphi 2007 compile
  
  
• Delphi Speex Wrapper by Bech
  http://www.sed-p.net


• Disk and View Icons by glyFX
  http://www.glyfx.com


• Glow Buttons, Popup Menus, Status Bar and Task Dialog by TMS Software
  http://www.tmssoftware.com


• JEDI Code Library
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/jcl


• JEDI Visual Code Library
  http://homepages.codegear.com/jedi/jvcl


• Open icon by Clever Icons
  http://www.clevericons.com


• PNG Delphi by Gustavo Daud
  http://pngdelphi.sourceforge.net


• PNG ImageList by Martijn Saly
  http://www.thany.org/pngcomponents


• Simon Boyes - for advice and testing
  
  
• Telltale Games
  Thanks for making such brilliant games
  http://www.telltalegames.com


• Vista font fixes by Nathanial Woolls
  http://www.installationexcellence.com/articles/VistaWithDelphi/


• Virtual Treeview by Mike Lischke
  http://www.delphi-gems.com


• Wave Writer class by Benjamin Haisch (John_Doe)
  http://gamefileformats.netfirms.com

Support:
Contact me.

All my software is completely free. If you find this program useful please consider making a donation. This can be done on my website.

bgbennyboy 10/10/07