No-one else, or at least as high profile, was doing AI voicework in their games. Embark were essentially the first with The Finals.
One successful game/studio doing it opens the door for other studios to start doing it.
Doing pure ai voicework yea sure but paying them to do ts is still much better than just straight replacing them and i honestly dont see much difference to the female tiktok tts voice that was on every other video
It’s better, yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Ideal would be them simply paying for a voice actor to record all the lines, which in the case of Arc Raiders they now thankfully appear to be doing.
They don’t seem to have gone about it in a bad way, but it still further opens the door to more icky practices.
So doing better than actual assholes opens the door to more icky practices?
No-one else, or at least as high profile, was doing AI voicework in their games. Embark were essentially the first with The Finals.
One successful game/studio doing it opens the door for other studios to start doing it.
I get your Point but I honestly think its fine if VAs were paid
In a vacuum, in this instance, I’m mostly inclined to agree.
It normalising the practice is what I dislike.
Doing pure ai voicework yea sure but paying them to do ts is still much better than just straight replacing them and i honestly dont see much difference to the female tiktok tts voice that was on every other video
It’s better, yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Ideal would be them simply paying for a voice actor to record all the lines, which in the case of Arc Raiders they now thankfully appear to be doing.