Can I delete unit acknowledgment sound files?

**SirRobin** · November 11, 2010, 03:08 PM

I would like to remove the different "Yes sir!" acknowledgements when I click on a unit on the strategic map, both for my own armies/agents and for the enemy's.

Those sounds drive me nuts and I disabled all speech because of it. Now I would like some speech back, but without those horrible voices on the map.

Is this possible by deleting the sound files, and if so, what files should I remove? Any other file that needs changing?

**Ishan** · November 11, 2010, 07:56 PM

The file you are looking for master robin is export_descr_sounds_stratmap_voice.txt.
Inside it you will find various characters like say for Admiral there is:-

Code:

                           vocal Selected
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Camp_Map
                                                  English_Admiral_Selected_1.mp3
                                                  English_Admiral_Selected_2.mp3
                                                  English_Admiral_Selected_3.mp3
                                    end

Arranged by accents of course. So put ";" like this:-

Code:

                           vocal Selected
                                    event
                                             folder data/sounds/Voice/Human/Localized/Camp_Map
                                                  ;English_Admiral_Selected_1.mp3
                                                  ;English_Admiral_Selected_2.mp3
                                                  ;English_Admiral_Selected_3.mp3
                                    end

After that save the file and delete all .idx and .dat files in SS6.3\sounds folder and start the game they regenerate and will read the changes you made.
And when you select the admiral he won't say anything.

**SirRobin** · November 12, 2010, 08:38 AM

Thank you, I cannot believe I put up with that noise pollution for so long and it's actually possible to fix.

Much appreciated!

But do I have to put that ; in front of all the different sound files for all characters for all factions, or is there some place I can switch off all these acknowledgements in one go?

**Ishan** · November 12, 2010, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by SirRobin

But do I have to put that ; in front of all the different sound files for all characters for all factions, or is there some place I can switch off all these acknowledgements in one go?

Yes you have to do this manually.

But a quick way of doing it is:-
open it with notepad and press Ctrl+F and type:-

Code:

vocal Selected

And it will take you to the first line where it is.
Then for this para you disable its mp3 sounds with a ; infront of it.
After that Press F3 key and it will take you to the next para where selection sounds are there and you disable them also.

Hope you understand what i meant.

**SirRobin** · November 12, 2010, 09:22 AM

Yes, that is the best way I guess.

Is it savegame compatible?

(Edit: Will answer my own question: Yes it is, just tested it out. Works brilliantly. A tip for anyone wanting to do the same is to do a search/replace for the faction's name PLUS the underscore (_) Then you can replace all instances with ";German_" in one go. Will have to be done for all factions if you dont want to hear the enemy's stupid taunts either, but at least it's faster than manually adding semicolon to hundreds and hundreds of lines.)

**Gabrius** · March 02, 2011, 09:40 AM

Is it possible to turn off the sounds for "My lord, our men have taken the city!" and so forth? They drive me absolutely crazy when they get in the way of the music. Even when I turn off the speech, the music still decreases in volume momentarily even when there isn't any speech. (And I don't want *all* the speech gone lol).