He was the perfect specimen, Nikich340 explains: “an emotionless voice suits Geralt’s character.”
Nikich340, on the other hand, contacted CyberMind for specific voice lines from their existing Geralt voice. “From there I’d do what I could to upsample the audio in Audacity so it matched the quality of the real voice acting.” Jonx0r compared the output of several different speech synthesis repositories on GitHub such as Fast Tacotron and Real Time Voice Cloning before settling on the Nvidia Tacotron 2 repository as the closest emulation of Skyrim’s voice acting. “I think could lead to quest or companion mods with richer player character development, narratives, and choices.”īest of all, such tools seem numerous. “There are a lot of talented writers in the modding community,” Jonx0r says. Without having to resort to chopping up existing lines to portray a main character, creators are free to script as normal. “It was apparent that I couldn’t just slice some lines together to get the proper phrases required for the story,” he says. Nikich340, creator of The Witcher 3 mod A Night to Remember, opted to use CyberVoice’s impressively replicated Geralt voice for this very reason. While community voice actors for NPCs remain an option, having one consistent, distinctive voice for a protagonist like Geralt draws a sharp line between official and community content. “Therefore, the responsibility for driving the narrative forward in a quest mod rests mostly on the shoulders of the NPCs.”
“In most cases modders are limited to repurposing existing voice lines for player interactions with new NPCs,” Jonx0r explains. Voice acting has always been challenging for modders, who often work solo or in very small teams, and yet demand has soared as RPG games trend toward fully voiced casts. Jonx0r, creator of the Wyrmstooth mod for Skyrim, thinks these abilities will not only help modders achieve technical parity with triple-A games, but also unleash a new wave of creativity. These can help modders target core constraints like image quality with AI image enhancement, and voice acting with AI speech synthesis. Of all the recent applications, one of the most interesting is the employment of publicly available AI tools in modding communities. AI is already behind world-building tools for artists, voice filtering in multiplayer, more intelligent bots, image upscaling, and generating photorealistic graphics. Videogames are uniquely positioned to take advantage of AI at almost every stage of their production. We're already in the middle of this revolution. Whether or not you consider machine learning to strictly be AI, the acceleration in this field has game-changing ramifications. Developments in the field will likely represent the single largest technological advance in the coming decades, yet today we’ve seen only a miniscule portion of that revolution unfold. Artificial intelligence is in an interesting place in 2021.
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