Need Help Figuring Out Something

Unity Engine
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Hello Humans on the Unity Fourms!
I have a question, so i want to build a game, and i want to have multiple voice options for the player to choose from. but the problem is i want it to play the specific voice at one part of the game, but then if the player wants to change the voice, i dont want it to play the original voice and i want to play the selected voice
Thank u for ur time!
Raine/Luna!

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I think you should elaborate your dialogue system in a way that each line has more than once voice-sound. Then when you have to play the line, you could check which index is referred to by your character settings.

Does that make sense for your project?

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so lets say if i were someone named toby, i want it to play the voice lines of toby, and when i change the character to someone like angel, i want it to play the voice lines of angel, not toby, im kinda a beginner on using unity.
Raine/Luna

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Here’s an overview of how you could manage dialogue code. This compiles, but lacks error checking and a bunch of cool features, but it should get you going:

// A way to identify clearly the voice used
public enum Voice
{
    Invalid, // consider implementing a default voice or warning line
    Alice,
    Bob,
    Carol,
    Dave,
    Eve
}

// A way to store all the variations of a line
// depending on who's saying it
public class DialogueLine
{
    public Dictionary<Voice, AudioClip> voices;
}

// A way to bundle all the lines of a conversation together
public class Dialogue
{
    public List<DialogueLine> lines;
}

// A way to play the line and do a bunch of verifications
[RequireComponent(typeof(AudioSource))]
public class DialoguePlayer : MonoBehaviour
{
    // You should have some kind of placeholder to highlight
    // when a line is missing
    private AudioClip warningAudioClip;

    public bool  PlayLine(DialogueLine line, Voice voice)
    {
        if (line != null)
        {
           AudioSource audioSource = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
           if (line.voices.ContainsKey(voice))
           {
               audioSource.PlayOneShot(line.voices[voice]);
               return true;
           }
        }
        audioSource.PlayOneShot(warningAudioClip);
        return false;
    }
}

[RequireComponent(typeof(DialoguePlayer))]
public class DialogueExample : MonoBehaviour
{
    // All the lines that could be said by everyone
    public AudioClip
        aliceLine0, bobLine0,
        carolLine1, daveLine1, eveLine1,
        aliceLine2, bobLine2,
        carolLine3, daveLine3, eveLine3;

    public void Test()
    {
        // Build a dialogue
        // You should probably store your dialogues as ScriptableObjects
        // to save/edit/manage them better
        Dialogue dialogue = new Dialogue
        {
            lines = new List<DialogueLine>
            {
                new DialogueLine
                {
                    voices =
                    {
                        { Voice.Alice, aliceLine0 },
                        { Voice.Bob, bobLine0 },
                    }
                },
                new DialogueLine
                {
                    voices =
                    {
                        { Voice.Carol, carolLine1 },
                        { Voice.Dave, daveLine1 },
                        { Voice.Eve, eveLine1 }
                    }
                },
                new DialogueLine
                {
                    voices =
                    {
                        { Voice.Alice, aliceLine2 },
                        { Voice.Bob, bobLine2 },
                    }
                },
                new DialogueLine
                {
                    voices =
                    {
                        { Voice.Carol, carolLine3 },
                        { Voice.Dave, daveLine3 },
                        { Voice.Eve, eveLine3 }
                    }
                }
            }
        };

        DialoguePlayer player = GetComponent<DialoguePlayer>();

        Voice playerVoice = Voice.Alice; // you could load this from your own PlayerSettings
        Voice npcVoice = Voice.Dave;

        // Play the dialogue lines with the relevant voices
        player.PlayLine(dialogue.lines[0], playerVoice);
        // ...later
        player.PlayLine(dialogue.lines[1], npcVoice);
        // ...later
        player.PlayLine(dialogue.lines[2], playerVoice);
        // ...later
        player.PlayLine(dialogue.lines[3], npcVoice);
    }
}