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One language setting; localized in-memory speech per language

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Cristian Gora
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@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ BKPK tables in the packages reference 2,543 WAD entries, all of them in the cata
Embedded WEMs by bank name prefix: `Speech` 7,872, `CHR` (character foley, combat, bosses) 3,896, `PSO` 781,
`WPN` 664, `NPC` 475, `OBJ` 439, `SEQ` 265, `GUI` 208, `PSA` 203, `MTN` 196, `PX` 195, `DVC` 100, `GEN` 80,
`PHY` 73, `AMB` 65, `SBJ` 50, others < 30. The `Speech_` banks (e.g. `Speech_EMOTE_Batman`, `..._GRUNT`) are
probably efforts/grunts rather than dialogue (there are no per-language packages); not verified by listening.
`PHY` 73, `AMB` 65, `SBJ` 50, others < 30. The `Speech_` banks (e.g. `Speech_EMOTE_Batman`, `..._GRUNT`) hold
speech: grunts and efforts (language-neutral, 165) and **localized lines** (about 1,460 per language, see
*Localized banks*).
All WEMs seen are Vorbis (format tag 0xFFFF), the same codec as the WADs: the footsteps are mono (4 stereo),
the embedded ones mono or stereo (~22 % stereo in a 2,533-WEM sample).
@@ -49,6 +50,14 @@ with bank id 0 whose media is not in the same bank (loaded by another bank); 133
streamed WEM (its size = the source's size), which the game plays while the rest is read from the WAD. 396
WAD sounds have such heads (2,101 copies); replacing one of them must rewrite the heads too.
## Localized banks
Speech banks are localized inside the (language-neutral) packages: one `AkBank` export starts with a language
list (FStrings `INT FRA ITA DEU ESN`) and then holds one complete bank per language, in that order, all with
the same bank ID; each language's copy has its own media IDs (checked on 215 banks against the WAD languages
of their streamed lines). ackit labels every in-memory media with its language (`BANK.csv` column `language`):
8,098 language-neutral sounds, ~1,460 per voice language. A catalog shows the neutral sounds plus the loaded
language's lines; names are unique per language.
## Banks inside packages
- The packages are LZO-compressed UE3 packages (`upk.md`); ackit decompresses them itself and searches the
uncompressed data for `BKHD` (banks) and `BKPK` (WAD indexes). (The first survey used Gildor's