Portal 2 hints? New file found...

[saintaureus]

Vork

[tendoking48]

The people who don't believe this just weren't smart enough to beat portal and find out for themselves. :(

[gmodman999]

I believe there was a secret coop partnet called the bot ball (or ball bot). I was looking at the portal 2 files and i saw bot ball (in the coop_vox folder) I cant be Atlas, atlas' voice sounds alot muffled... And i also found some files that have gameshow in it... I believe it was a abandoned level that the bot ball used... If im wrong please tell me.

[77FrenchFries]

It probably is real. This is exactly what it said and how it sounded like, this must be the "beta" file before a robotic sound was added.

[MegaCynergy]

This is the announcer in Portal 2

[Kingdomfire551]

@MegaCynergy no.....its not

[caitlinatwood]

@MegaCynergy it does kinda sound like him!

[TheRealDutchOwner]

@MegaCynergy, Google for: AT&T Labs Natural Voices® Text-to-Speech Demo

Then select the AT&T mike voice. Hear it?

[terekevadexD]

ALL OF U GUYS WHO AINT BELIVING THIS

IT IS REAL

!!!!

[DontLetMeFail]

And you're lying that you found this...

[DontLetMeFail]

It's one of the AT&T Text-to-speech voices - Mike

[AKirill1942]

This is Party Escors says!

[TheMarioMan1]

I think it's the raw sound for the robot in the new ending. Becuase in one of the commentary things in Portal, it says that they use a text to speech program to make what the robot will say and then mix a real voice with this voice to make it sound robot-y.

[inr21sevier]

submission position submission position hmm that could be a funny rap or something nice @ultimategcs

[Ints12345]

PARTY ESCORD SUBMISSION POSITION DECISION NOT JUST POSITION :<

[Advisorbuggy]

..... That was microsoft voice

[tommyv2468]

how do i open music files in HL2 and portal and such?

[Asdd445]

Looks like this placeholder us about the ending I see!

[bartandAGK]

its not mike

[HKJeffer]

There's another party and another CaKE?!

[TheFXGuy]

I don't know anything about them removing this, but I know this is the voice of the robot in the new ending. I also read somewhere that the voice was edited in realtime.

[TheEdward4ever]

they call him beans and he is a box, try figuring that one out

[tosyalist]

@TheEdward4ever: He is a bean box? :p

[hiddenbutt]

i found sound files too! it wasnt on any custom map. or portal itself. or youtube. i put it in a video that i uploaded to youtube.

[VmKid]

Probably an early version of the Party Escort Bot.

[geckorus10]

I saw an ending that said in a male british voice (robotic) "thank you for assuming the correct party escort submission position" And then i heard the sownds of a robot moving. portal 2 could be based on this

[Robloxain1a42]

The line got changed, and computerized, THEN it was put in the new ending.

[SADXhacker]

Eh... No. This isn't the clip from the ending. The clip goes like "Thank you for assuming the party escort submission position" in an accent. It never says anything about the enrichment center.

[omegawaffle]

Err.... Its the original file for the "computized voice/robot thing" at the end where you get dragged off after the glados fight. Listen and you can hear "Thank you for assuming the Party Escort Submission Position."

[zaghy2zy]

**Spoiler Start**

This is actually a robotic voice added to th end cut scene. Instead of you just staying there, lying, you now get dragged by a robot (maybe) and this is the voice of that

** Spoiler End**

[kekec5551]

@zaghy2zy There was no sound when i was dragged by a robot, and i also didn't see the robot, but i was quite surprised because i really didn't expect something to move me xD

[zaghy2zy]

@kekec5551 I think I did upload the new ending... check my acocunt... I have uploaded the portal credits... just skip to the end to see the new ending... :P but yeah, something dragged you... it wasn't like that before...

[kekec5551]

@zaghy2zy I finished portal....

BTW i found a new file called PartyEscort in portals gcf file...

I think it's in /sounds/npc/

[npx190]

@kekec5551 I just looked and it was there as of June.

[SikGamer70]

I heard this sound right at the end of the game when I beat GLaDOS. At the part where you wake up and there's parts everywhere, a robot behind me says this and drags me (as happens at the end).

[ChaosBW]

microsoft mike.

real sound file sounds different.

Also he only says "thank you for assuming the party escort submission position."

[tommyballe]

"A) GLADos never says this at any point in the game"

Yes, she does. After the last test room when you save yourself from the fire.

[TheFXGuy]

For those of you who don't know, that's a file used in the new ending. It's changed (has a robotic effect), but still says the same thing.

[T3hEm0J0k3r]

On the side theres a video called "New portal ending" it has that clip near then end of the new ending

[TheEnglishHobo]

you know the hype about HL2E3 having a deaf character in it? the actual voice that says it sounds like it was recorded by a deaf person. (i should know, i have a deaf friend)

[Jordey24]

This is used in the new PC ending. The robot sound is rendered in real time.

[thatsafaceforradio]

From what I've seen for myself, the dialogue is from right at the end of the Portal 1 new ending, but the actual audio is a type-to-voice editor thing, not the actual voice from Portal 1.

[ThePlanetRobloxia]

its from the new ending!

[CheatEnginer]

Maybe these mysterious things are related on Half-Life 3 (or Episode 3) as something about the Borealis ship, which had something to do with Aperture Science

[ThePriami]

Umm... isn`t that the same voice that in the new ending, but without robotic voice?

[AkDudesProductions]

Its Microsoft MIKE

[supermansamuel]

Isn't that the voice from that text to speech movie maker game?

[syatica]

read the new gameinformer magazine....coming out this fall :D

[MofoMan2000]

Just beat the game again. You'll see what this is about.

[ChaosBW]

seems legit.

if you're a fucking retard.

[Bajungadustin]

this is legit actually.. the creators of portal updated portal one and changed the ending a little bit so it tied in more nicly with the new portal thats comming out this fall.

its all in game informer this month.. there is a 5 page overview on it that discusses new additions to the game like tractor beam and 2 player co-op..

so this is legit.

[Harpsy363]

@ therunningscout

no they havnt this sound track or wav file can be found in your steam portal folder its is part of the new update that is actualy the begining of portal2

[TheRunningScout]

@Harpsy363 yea i heard tht they removed the file because this was already in before the update then the update deleted it and added the new file which is the ending of the game when you get the transmission recived achivement on steam.

[TheRunningScout]

what they did is distort the audio in melodyne or what ever and added reverb

[Jordey24]

This is the robot you hear in the new March 3 ending. Also GLaDOS talks about a party escort near the ending of the game (during the escape levels)

[MatthewTheShortKid]

if you look on the new gameimformer it has robots that hold the emotion bots that you knock off of galdos at the end

[ieetmelon]

this is the robot in the new ending! i think he will be in portal 2!! :D

[Snowyjoe66]

the biggest question I have is why go into all this trouble to announce a new game? All you can do is just announce it somewhere and post concpet art all over the internet....

I think Valve is up to something even bigger. Something that will change the gaming industry.... for ever....

[Scorp471]

...lol

[ryandoesnotsmell]

its kinda like the new ending droid voice. My bet is that it's the recording before they edited it, much like GLaDOS's voice.

Then again, it could just be another piece in the big puzzle that is the portal updates... which were just a big publicity stunt; now we know it relates to portal 2 :D

[ZennouRyoku]

This isn't Microsoft anything, I'm pretty sure.

It's in the game. Play through Chamber 19/Escape again and see for yourself.

I thought the voice just sounded different in-game because of all the atmosphere in that scene, maybe not though.

[mathaeis]

Yeah, on a whim I just beat the game again last night, it's the last thing GLaDOS says right before it goes to the credits.

[lolawesomeness5]

I don't think that was GLaDOS, It might of been one of those personality cores that they talked about in game informer.

[mathaeis]

Definitely a good point there. I hadn't read that article until after playing again and posting this. I'm even more excited now. :D

[Bajungadustin]

i was reading in gameinformer and its not GLaDOS its someone else that pulls you away and puts you in stasis. GLaDOS is "technically" dead at the end of the game.

[wooterz]

This is microsoft mike...

[DeadWireProductions]

@wooterz this is real

[wooterz]

I never said it wasn't.

[Torchaan]

isnt this what they say in the new ending scene? but with a different voice x.x

[hogtheputer12]

Actually ultimategcs GLaDOS says "please lay down with your arms at your side and assume the party escort submission position"

[Undergroundoga]

my theory: Team fortress is added to the Half-life universe, and Chell and Alyx Vance(from half-life) are sisters.

[rerere284]

team fortress mixed with anything would be odd :O

no story, and very cartoony : /

[fatmoleman]

How long has Ep 3 been in development?? They said after Ep 1 that team would start on Ep 3 while a different team worked on Ep 2....  What a god damn fail.

Also what happened to the Episode that was supposed to be developed seperately from Valve? They should have just started on HL3 instead of these episodes that release once a half decade.

[nwaster]

Well valve said that Half Life came out in 1998 and Half Life 2 came out in 2004, thats a 6 year gap. They said if they were to create a totally new half life game and a physics, graphics engine etc it would take them 10+ year so they made episodes instead. Dont expect half life 3 till around 2020

[Pyroreddwarf]

This is not the new one. It says the same thing but with a different accent.

[fmjr10]

I will look forward to HL:E3 more then I will look forward to L4D3!

[mashafasha5]

The enrichment center thanks you for assuming the party, escort, submission, position,

[uberSPYCRAB]

it's no the same sound as in the game, actually!

The one in-game has a SLIGHT British ACCENT remember? :P

[P3RF3CTD3ATH]

Sounds more like a German accent at the end.

[sheogorath19]

niiiice :) even before the one with the german accent :XD

[stickmeister0]

It's from the new ending.

People suspect it's DOG's voice or something. Or the new AI Johnson's voice.

[WaRRioRTheFox]

Its not that one , even with editing to make it sound close to the one in new ending, it dosnt sound anything like that.

[swordzzzzz]

It's real guys, there's a new ending now on portal if you type on console map escape_02 and finish the game without exiting/using a continue.

[xXDrSean]

Yeap if you play portal to the end the ending has been changed and it does play this sound as something drags the main character away when she wakes up outside

[JoshJosh117]

There is an updated one in the march 3 update for the new ending.

[GAoctavio]

its real

[PixelSith64]

You shush, go play Portal through to the end.

[TehMatoking]

How to replicate this sound :

1. Go to public.research(dot)att(dot)co­m / ~ttsweb / tts / demo(dot)php (delete the spaces)

2. Select the voice "Mike"

3. Copy-paste this phrase exactly like this "The enrichment centre thanks you. for assuming, the party, escort, submission, position."

4. Click "Speak" Does it sound similar?

[TehMatoking]

I opened PESP .bsp map files with pakrat and found some .wav files. The pesp2.wav file in the first map contains the "Party Escort Submission Position" phrase, although it doesn't have brief pauses with the words as here and slightly lower pitch, otherwise the computer generated voice sounds the same.

[AlonTavor]

"Portal.PartyEscortAssociate"

{

"channel""CHAN_VOICE"

"volume""1.0"

"soundlevel""SNDLVL_NONE"

"wave""npc/PartyEscort.wav"

}

THIS IS REAL! THE REFFERNCE TO THE SOUND STILL EXISTS!

[Kingofhearts09]

its microsoft sam.

[stickmeister0]

Probably nothing. Valve places a lot of red herrings.

[Lediur]

This is the Dave voice from Loquendo's TTS.

[Lediur]

No, wait, it's Steven.

[movingpicture]

sounds like the character off of Portal Prelude.

[GarsinX]

lol@the last annotation

[iamafractal]

sounds like a typical computer generated voice.

[EPeters208]

It sounds like the actor from Jonathan Coulton's song, Sibling Rivalry.

[benporte]

It's not fake. It's part of the new files they've added for the secret transmittion achievment. Shit myself when I disintegrated the radio. It says get out of here fast arrrrreeghfhhh....

[MrEthanBrooke]

Its from MOD called PESP...

[zgcentrs]

Lol. more than 15k for this fake bullshit?

[Aleitheo]

Fake? Have you looked at the new files from the update?

[DeDaDoDu]

@zgcentrs It isnt fake.... I saw this file myself >_>

[RaggingDoll]

Is it Hugh Dillon?

[TehMatoking]

I think I've heard this before in a custom map called pesp... I can't find this in my .gcf portal content file but the new "dinosaur" sound files, yes.

[TehMatoking]

IT IS from a custom map called pesp. Good fake there.

[takashy87]

Well, actually everyone could do such a file with a PC.. :/

[thaCURSEDpie]

I think not. Try it with Speakonia (which is just a wrapper for the microsoft text-to-speech thing). Compare the quality.

You either need:

1. Very VERY good text-to-speech software, which is expensive.

2. A human voice and change it.

[s3an02]

is it just me, or has this sound file dissapeared now?

[s3an02]

@s3an02 from the sound files i mean, not youtube heh

[ThaGlenniator]

maybe's there an other AI on the borealis.

[SexyMelon]

It's a speech synthesis alright. Not an actor.

[Scottstimo]

IT'S A DOOD

[Dude902]

It's not Microsoft Sam, it's a different Microsoft narrator. I've definitely heard it several times before.

[jellyandme]

I was wrong, it starts "interior transmission" working on the rest now.

[TheMojopo]

It's "Cave" Johnson, reincarnated as a computer.

[ZeldaDD]

It does seem likely we'll get to meet Cave Johnson if there's a sequel, and this really makes a sequel seem way more likely (this recent update).

[capnazrael]

it's either the old pa from black mesa, or the guys from portal prelude lol

[lafingman0]

I dont see it - but then again the 2nd update came out a few minutes ago. Did they take it out? D:

[ultimategcs]

Looks that way, I just looked too. You're right, it's not there anymore.

[wemes]

The voice used here is AT&T's Mike.

[IMInfected86]

Anyone thinking that this sounds like Microsoft Sam is a fucking dumbass. Also, you know when you finish the last test? GLaDOS wants you to die in a fire, but since you're one persistent bitch, you don't GLaDOS then kindly asks you to 'lay on the floor and do the party escort submissive position'. And seeing that this guy thanks you for doing that position, MAYBE THERE'S A NEW ENDING OMGAOMG

[gustavio093]

Could it be? so soon?...

PORTAL 2!!??!?

[rindotheraven]

ITS HITLER GOD DAMN IT

[Fai27]

no.

[Femfikon]

My first, no doubt lame idea after hearing about this: Portal 2 features GLaDOS' back-up. He is very upset about what happened to his sister.

[taxmonkey123]

I hope all this hysteria just isn't some joke. It better be about Portal 2 or EP3.

[SCGod]

Sounds like the voice is from an old voice box used to announce weather alerts on very old televisions.

[SrsBsns]

Hey Microsoft Sam, you damn troll!

[ultimategcs]

Nope, check the GCF, you'll find it.

[sw174]

Sounds like Microsoft Sam.

[ahedoooo]

VALVE IS TROLLING!

[mybestfreindplank]

that's the sound from portal prelude

[Xenofreak]

This is definitely not microsoft sam

[Trakesh]

fake

[BreadBaron498]

You're welcome Enrichment Center!

[rpgplayer101]

Valve is trolling, valve is trolling so hard.

[d3mon776]

Holy shit :O

[rungun247]

MALE GLADOS? WAT

[Keybored6522]

I've heard this speech synthesizer everywhere. Isn't it in Vista or something?