Amid a lengthy contract negotiation with the video game industry, SAG-AFTRA has inked a deal with Replica Studios regarding the use of AI digital voice replicas in video games. The guild’s Na…
There are cool use cases for this such as having NPCs say player-picked names for their character (instead of saying a generic name/title like in current RPGs). I don’t know if it’s worth it though.
Are you suggesting replacing voice actors with a completely computer generated voice, for all voice lines? That hasn’t sounded good ever, especially in terms of intonation and emotions.
We are talking about a completely computer-generated voice. But for some reason we’re only talking about cases where it’s modeled as closely as possible on one specific human being.
Why would I want a fictional character to sound like a specific real person?
Or, framing the question differently: what actor plays Dave The Diver onscreen? Because the answer is what this technology will do for audio.
There are cool use cases for this such as having NPCs say player-picked names for their character (instead of saying a generic name/title like in current RPGs). I don’t know if it’s worth it though.
Again: why would the NPC saying that need to sound like a specific real person?
To make it sound like the rest of the character’s dialogue. They’re probably not going to train this on the VA’s “normal” voice, that sounds useless.
Again: why would an NPC’s dialog need to sound like any specific real person, doing a voice?
Are you suggesting replacing voice actors with a completely computer generated voice, for all voice lines? That hasn’t sounded good ever, especially in terms of intonation and emotions.
That’s what this already does.
We are talking about a completely computer-generated voice. But for some reason we’re only talking about cases where it’s modeled as closely as possible on one specific human being.