Wwise Authoring API - Creating sound voice objects? IsVoice property can't be set

Question

Hello

I'm working on a python script to create and import wavs for game dialogue, but I can't seem to create sound voice objects.

I'm using the ak_wwise_core_object_create function and passing in a dictionary of arguments, including parent, type etc.

I have everything working correctly to create all kinds of containers and children, including Sound SFX objects. I can also set various properties like Volume and IsLoopingEnabled, so I'm pretty confident I have all the structures and functions set up correctly.

I have tried changing the type to Sound Voice, but that returns an error about unrecognised type.

I have also tried setting the type to Sound and setting the IsVoice property to True, but this returns an error claiming that property cannot be set.

I know IsVoice is valid, because I have it in the return arguments of my GetSelectedObject function.

Can anyone shed some light into how to create Sound Voice object types with the core.object.create function?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Simon,

creating Sound Voices using ak.wwise.core.object.create will cause you trouble. It is preferable to use ak.wwise.core.audio.import

https://www.audiokinetic.com/en/library/2017.1.2_6361/?source=SDK&id=ak__wwise__core__audio__import.html

-Bernard

Comments

Thanks Bernard. I've changed my script around to use the Import call instead.
Out of interest, is there a specific reason the Object Create call doesn't support creating voice type objects?

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It is for historical reasons. In Wwise's user interface, we were never able to transform a Sound Voice to Sound SFX, and vice versa. Unfortunately, this limitation still applies in WAAPI, until we decide to refactor that area.