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How to make a voice pack

Voice packs are the core gameplay of The Choicer Voicer — the judges, hosts, contestants and menu voices that players imitate. Making one requires no tools and no code: the developer's own pitch is that it's "as easy as dropping audio files into a folder". This guide walks through the whole thing, from cutting clips to publishing on GameBanana. If you want to make a video scene instead, that's Dub Mode — see the dub pack guide.

What a voice pack is made of

A voice pack is just a folder inside the game's packs_voice directory. The folder's name becomes the pack's name in-game, and the only required contents are audio clips — WAV, MP3 or OGG. Everything else (author credit, description, subtitles, images) is optional garnish. Want the packaging done for you? Our free Voice Pack Maker builds the ZIP in your browser — but it's worth reading the steps below anyway so you know what the game expects.

Step 1: Gather and cut your clips

Pick a theme people will actually search for — a show, a meme, a character — and cut one audio clip per line or sound. Audacity (free) is the standard tool for this. Two rules from the official guide matter more than any others:

• Keep clips short. The hard limit is 60 seconds, but the game's clip-length filter defaults to 0–5.5 seconds — so anything longer won't even show up for players on default settings. Aim for punchy one-to-five-second clips.
• Make them loud and clear. The game scores players by sampling the audio — quiet clips with small waveforms produce inaccurate scores and feel broken in play.

Step 2: Export with clear file names

Export each clip as WAV, MP3 or OGG. Avoid compressed WAV files — the engine can't handle them. One naming quirk to know: if two files share a name with different extensions, the game only recognizes one of them, prioritizing WAV over MP3 over OGG. Name clips so the clip list in-game reads well (intro-boasting.wav, evil-laugh.wav, …), because players browse that list when picking what to perform.

Step 3: Drop the folder into packs_voice

Create a new folder inside the game's packs_voice directory, name it after your pack, and move the clips in. Restart the game and your pack appears in the pack selection screen. That's genuinely the whole job — everything below is polish. (If the pack doesn't show up, it's almost always a double-nested folder — the troubleshooting guide covers every cause.)

Step 4: Optional extras

• Author credit: add a text file named _author.txt with your name.
• Pack description: add a _subtitle.txt file shown with the pack.
• Per-clip subtitles: a text file sharing the clip's name — evil-laugh.txt captions evil-laugh.wav.
• Per-clip images: a PNG, JPG or WEBP sharing the clip's name. To give every clip a default image at once, add a single _pack_filler_image file to the pack folder.
• Subgroups: nest folders inside the pack to organize clips — selecting the parent pack includes all child folders' clips, and each subgroup can carry its own author and description.

Step 5: Test it properly

Play a few rounds with your own pack. Check that every clip is audible over the room noise of a party, that subtitles and images land on the right clips, and that the pack selection list reads the way you intended. If the game won't record you while testing, that's the known engine bug, not your pack — see the microphone fix guide and the browser mic test.

Step 6: Share it on GameBanana

Zip the folder and upload it to GameBanana's Choicer Voicer section, in the category that matches the content (Judges, Hosts, Players, Menus, and so on). Write a title people will search — character or show name plus "voice pack" — add a screenshot, and credit the source material. Once it's listed, it shows up in this site's index automatically and joins the cast on our voice packs page.

Tips from the official guide and the community

• Less is more. Clip selection during play is uniform random, so a giant pack gets sampled disproportionately often. Keep packs tight unless every clip earns its place.
• Vary the images. _pack_filler_image is convenient, but per-clip images make the pack noticeably more fun to play.
• Mark NSFW honestly. If clips have explicit language, flag the pack on GameBanana — NSFW-flagged packs are excluded from this index, which keeps the site family-friendly.
• Graduating to video? Dub packs add an OGV scene and per-line timing on top of everything here. The dub pack guide picks up where this one ends, and community tools like GameBanana's Dub Pack Editor can automate the packaging.