How to Install Voice Packs

Your First Voice Pack: Getting The Choicer Voicer Ready to Actually Play

People buy this game expecting a roster of ready-made characters and clips, and then boot it up to something closer to a blank stage. That’s intentional. The developer built The Choicer Voicer as a framework for custom content rather than a finished show, which means your first real task isn’t playing a round — it’s stocking the place. Once you know where things go, it takes about five minutes.

A voice pack, at its simplest, is a folder of sound clips the game plays back for you to imitate. That’s the entire mechanic underneath the standard studio, Twitch Mode, and Dub Mode alike — the only difference is that Dub Mode needs a fancier version called a dub pack, which is its own separate topic.

Locating the Folder Without Digging Through Your Hard Drive

The game doesn’t store its content next to the .exe the way you might expect. It lives in your system’s local application data, tucked away in a spot most players wouldn’t think to check. Thankfully you don’t have to: open the main menu and look for the option that opens your content folder directly. From there, the subfolder you want is called packs_voice.

Before You Copy Anything In, Know the Limits

Three practical constraints govern what the game will actually accept as a valid clip:

  • File type has to be WAV, MP3, or OGG — nothing else is recognized.
  • Sixty seconds is the ceiling for length. Anything longer either gets rejected or misbehaves once the game tries to use it.
  • Volume matters more than people expect. The scoring engine reads waveforms, and a quiet clip gives it almost nothing to work with — normalize your audio before you finalize anything.

None of this gets checked when you’re just browsing your pack list, by the way. The game only actually validates a clip once it pulls it into an active round, so a broken or oversized file can sit there looking completely fine until it isn’t.

Putting a Pack in Place

With a pack in hand — whether you built it yourself or grabbed one from the community, which mostly circulates through the game’s itch.io page and various fan Discords — installation is just a few motions:

  1. Extract it first if it arrived zipped.
  2. Jump into the game, open the main menu, and use the shortcut to your content folder.
  3. Drop the whole pack folder inside packs_voice — the folder itself, not the loose files scattered outside it.
  4. Back in the game, reopen the selection screen. If your new pack isn’t there yet, closing and reopening the game usually fixes that.

Building One From Nothing

You don’t need any dedicated pack-making software. A folder holding a few valid audio files, sitting inside packs_voice, already counts as a working pack the moment the game detects it. Captions, images, tags — all of that comes later, and none of it is required to get something playable.

The Metadata Editor Nobody Reads About Until They Need It

Version 0.5.0 introduced a built-in tool for dressing up a pack after the fact, tucked under Extras > Edit Voice Packs & Clip Metadata on the main menu. It’s where the following live:

  • Individual clip images
  • Captions for each line
  • Tags players can filter by
  • Dub-related fields, if you’re planning to expand this pack for Dub Mode later
  • A pack icon, subtitle, and a display name that overrides the folder name
  • Author credit, which shows up in author-based search
  • A short readme or description

Not Every Clip Needs Its Own Image

Two shortcuts save time here. Name a file my_clip and an image also named my_clip pairs with it automatically — no manual assignment. And for everything you haven’t bothered to match individually, a file named _pack_filler_image becomes the default for the whole pack (an image called _icon does the same job if there’s no dedicated filler).

Low on Space? The Folder Won’t Move on Its Own

Because the game’s data folder is anchored to your system’s appdata location, there’s no in-game setting to point it at a different drive. Players dealing with limited space physically relocate the folder elsewhere and set up a symbolic link back to the original location, which the game treats as if nothing changed.

Sorting Out Two Different Kinds of “It’s Not Working”

These get confused constantly, so it’s worth separating them:

  • If the pack itself refuses to appear in your list, double-check that your files are actually WAV, MP3, or OGG, under a minute long, and sitting inside their own subfolder rather than loose at the top level of packs_voice.
  • If the pack loads just fine but your microphone won’t pick anything up, that’s an entirely separate, well-known issue tied to the game’s audio engine — no amount of pack troubleshooting touches it. Run the free demo first to confirm your mic actually works before assuming your pack is the culprit.