Custom Hosts

Custom Hosts in The Choicer Voicer: What We Know About Host Packs

The host is the character who introduces you before a round and narrates the show — the emcee of every studio session. Host packs let you replace that character entirely, and while the developer hasn’t published a dedicated step-by-step guide for them yet (unlike voice, dub, contestant, judge, studio, and chatter packs, which all have official write-ups), there’s still a solid amount of confirmed detail worth knowing before you build or install one.

What the Host Actually Does

The host is the character who introduces contestants at the start of a show — contestant packs even include a configurable “introduction given by the host” line, which is read out in the host’s voice. The host is also the one who reacts to the outcome of a round, which is where the confirmed part of the host pack structure comes in.

What’s Officially Confirmed So Far

The clearest confirmed detail comes from the version 0.5.0 release notes, which mention that host packs use a dialog configuration with specific keys tied to game events. For example, when a player lands the rare “absolute” 6-out-of-5 score, the developer specifically noted you can add a score_6 key to your host pack’s dialog to give the host a unique line for that moment. This tells us hosts, like judges and contestants, have event-based dialog slots rather than a single generic voice clip.

Content packs to customize are also officially listed as covering: Voice packs, Menu, Judges, Studio, Host, and Contestant — confirming Host is treated as its own first-class content type, alongside everything covered in the other pack guides.

How Community Host Packs Are Typically Structured

Looking at host packs the community has actually released, a few consistent patterns show up:

  • A host pack is usually bundled as its own small download, separate from voice packs, judge packs, and player packs — reflecting that it’s its own content folder, in the same pattern as packs_player and packs_judges.
  • Released host packs are typically quite small in file size compared to voice packs, consistent with a host pack containing mostly a character image plus a set of short dialog lines rather than dozens of long audio clips.
  • Host packs are commonly paired with a matching judge pack, player pack, and menu theme as part of a themed set, since the host is one of the most visible characters in every studio session.

What to Expect If You Build One

Based on the confirmed dialog-key system and how every other pack type in the game is organized, a reasonable working approach is:

  1. Check the main menu for the folder that opens your host content directory, the same way packs_voice, packs_player, and packs_judges are opened.
  2. Give your host character image, following the same general conventions as judge and contestant images — PNG preferred for transparency, sized to fit the studio without needing to be scaled by the game.
  3. Record short dialog lines for the host’s key moments: introductions, round transitions, and event-specific reactions such as the confirmed score_6 “absolute” score line.
  4. Use the in-game Customization menu to check what naming and dialog options are exposed for hosts, the same way judge names and contestant names are edited there rather than through manual file renaming.

A Note on This Guide

Unlike the other content pack types in The Choicer Voicer, hosts don’t yet have a dedicated official walkthrough on the developer’s site as of this writing. If you’re building a host pack, it’s worth checking the developer’s custom content page periodically, since a full guide is likely to follow the same publishing pattern as the ones already released for voice, dub, contestant, studio, judge, and chatter packs. Until then, the in-game Customization menu is the most reliable place to see exactly which host options are actually exposed in your current game version.