Voice options in character creation?

[Super Hayes.6890]

I mean, can we get James Earl Jones as an option 😃

[kharmin.7683]

50 minutes ago, Super Hayes.6890 said:

I mean, can we get James Earl Jones as an option 😃

Christopher Walken: "I can... outrun ... a centaur."

[Shaigat.8935]

The future of voice acting in games - (not so) simple solution.

Right now hiring actors, getting them to studio (and paying for it) is quite expensive (and time consuming).
I see no other option that to get to work combo voice synthesizer + neural network.

 

1. During character creation player get additional bunch of sliders for voice parameters;
1b. User can also record few phrases with own voice (optional, as not everybody likes own voice,
we sound weird to ourselves as we mainly hear own voice through skull);
2. With style transfer technique nn builds voice characteristics, which can be used for reading out loud anything;
3. When it comes to "acting" - style transfer can be also used for it, when we feed nn with enough samples;
This applies not only for dialogues (accents, expression, diction), but don't forget about short in-game phrases that play important
role in many games ("NO!" -> warrior's berserk mode ends in few seconds), this can be done too;

3b. We can of course hear other players with their own voices, as sending characteristics is not like streaming whole audio;
4. De Niro ("You talking to me, lousy revenant?"), James Earl Jones ("I'm your father, Logan") and Willis ("Yippee ki yay, Mordremoth") unlockable for 1k gems;
5. Profit.

 

If I remember correctly first time this technique was used in some Japan exhibition,
where long-ago-dead painter (Renoir?) reconstructed voice was used for making interactive
guide (and mentioning the events that occurred a long after his death).
 

[Xanadrine.4352]

I just want them to fix my necromancers emotes, neither my asura or my human voice emotes when minions rise or die. I really miss that. 

[Super Hayes.6890]

5 hours ago, kharmin.7683 said:

Christopher Walken: "I can... outrun ... a centaur."

Oh wow, that is playing on loop in my head now 🤣

[Rhywolver.8250]

Wouldn't it be possible to add small filters to the game client that change voices a bit? There are softwares out there that let your voice sound like Orcs or Dark Knights. Might be a better way than recording every player-character line in three languages.

[Tails.9372]

On 9/25/2021 at 11:49 PM, TheLadyOfTheRings.9148 said:

Do you think it's realistic to hope for voice options in GW2?

Not now but maybe when text to speech software is more advanced.