No, it's SEX that sets the voice.
But let's hear from the docs whether GENDER can be extended. And another thing. It seems to me that NONE values in the IDS files don't work as actual entries but switch on some of the other values. For example, NONE alignment isn't perceived, and so on. With GENDER, I've heard wrong sounds when targeting what I thought were genderless creatures. My spell used different sounds for MALE, FEMALE and a third option for monsters. So there is the answer to my original question; but the monsters with NONE were not only getting the neutral sound but also the MALE sound, until I changed the spell to target NIETHER instead.
The point: if NONE doesn't actually work for GENDER, what about SPECIFIC? Everybody is NONE there, by default, except the special creatures who get their own values. PCs are not going to become MAGIC, NO_MAGIC, NORMAL or SPIRIT. Now, people have messed around with SPECIFIC, but temporarily, I believe. After those changes and effects go away, PCs go back to being... NONE. No one has dared to alter their signatures permanently in that file. But if NONE here is just nothing, not used, then why not replace it with something permanent that would play a role?
Like age. Even Fallout had age, but none of the improvements and enhancements of the fantasy IE games have added that mechanic. It wasn't used, so it wasn't added; it wasn't added, so it wasn't used. A beautiful logic that could be carried away to its most satisfactory conclusion - a game that doesn't exist is the most harmonious. Meanwhile, though the game events don't take very long from Candlekeep to Watcher's Keep, there are mechanics that could and should age people - specters' touch, spells... Unlike GENDER, SPECIFIC can be extended as much as one likes. But it's not, unfortunately, shown anywhere on the screens.
I'm thinking of using effect 290, Change Title. Some of the fields could display the character's age instead.
Actually, never mind. Yes, it could be done. But, like with so many other things about these games, why bother?
Edited by temnix, 03 April 2018 - 12:58 PM.