I'm guessing it's AI. There are a few of these mods, and they seem to mimic the voices done for other characters. Some of them sound more authentic than others.
It helps that Bethesda's voice acting is notoriously cheap and utterly shit, too. AI actually would unironically do it better, since Bethesda basically just hires no more than ten people to voice every single non-named NPC in the game, and a few of the named ones too.
That being said I'm curious if/when we'll see full AI integration into an RPG, but I'm betting currently AI chat models are too 'wild'.
There's a new "VoiceOver" mod for World of Warcraft that has AI voices for all NPCs. It's insane. Some of the voices are flawless, some could need some work (with accents, for instance). All in all, it's clear the future of video game will be a couple of voiced main parts and the vast majority of minor characters will be AI in the future.
If you go to the channel on the Odysee page they also replaced Bovriv the Russian dude in Diamond City and definitely it's a bad AI voice. I also "get" why it doesn't make sense 200 years after the war you'd still have people speaking like Russian immigrants right off the boat but I did like the guy as an NPC, it was some performance variety in a game franchise notorious for having little variety.
They should have replaced an NPC with a voice and speaking mannerism of Carl from Aqua Teen, that'd be great. And would fit the location lol.
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I'm guessing it's AI. There are a few of these mods, and they seem to mimic the voices done for other characters. Some of them sound more authentic than others.
It helps that Bethesda's voice acting is notoriously cheap and utterly shit, too. AI actually would unironically do it better, since Bethesda basically just hires no more than ten people to voice every single non-named NPC in the game, and a few of the named ones too.
That being said I'm curious if/when we'll see full AI integration into an RPG, but I'm betting currently AI chat models are too 'wild'.
There's a new "VoiceOver" mod for World of Warcraft that has AI voices for all NPCs. It's insane. Some of the voices are flawless, some could need some work (with accents, for instance). All in all, it's clear the future of video game will be a couple of voiced main parts and the vast majority of minor characters will be AI in the future.
If you go to the channel on the Odysee page they also replaced Bovriv the Russian dude in Diamond City and definitely it's a bad AI voice. I also "get" why it doesn't make sense 200 years after the war you'd still have people speaking like Russian immigrants right off the boat but I did like the guy as an NPC, it was some performance variety in a game franchise notorious for having little variety.
They should have replaced an NPC with a voice and speaking mannerism of Carl from Aqua Teen, that'd be great. And would fit the location lol.
If this is the project by American Krogan, than I remember him putting out requests for people to do voice lines.