Mikey Jr.
Member
So I'm playing the JRPG Trails of Cold Steel 4 right now, and while I love the game, I realize that these games can't have huge budgets. They don't sell a lot, so putting money into lots of VO probably isn't a wise decision.
I would say only about 20% of the time, the main characters speak. Usually during important events. The rest is just text. Side characters
And while I love the characters a lot, no VO kinda sucks.
And then I stumbled on AI Voice. Its mainly just text to speech, but it tries to mimic real human voice.
Now I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that what they have right now is perfect. You can tell its a robot, but at its current point, its pretty damn good.
And it got me thinking. While big budget games can go with real actors, these smaller games can utilize AI. And so now every game in the series can have the same character voices between games. No "ohhh the actor wasn't available" or "we couldn't pay them enough" or "we only had enough budget for these lines".
The entire game could be completely voiced. Even NPC's on the side of the road could have their own voices.
Is this feasible right now? Nahhh. The voices aren't perfect yet. But in 10 years?
What do you guys think?
I would say only about 20% of the time, the main characters speak. Usually during important events. The rest is just text. Side characters
And while I love the characters a lot, no VO kinda sucks.
And then I stumbled on AI Voice. Its mainly just text to speech, but it tries to mimic real human voice.
Now I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that what they have right now is perfect. You can tell its a robot, but at its current point, its pretty damn good.
And it got me thinking. While big budget games can go with real actors, these smaller games can utilize AI. And so now every game in the series can have the same character voices between games. No "ohhh the actor wasn't available" or "we couldn't pay them enough" or "we only had enough budget for these lines".
The entire game could be completely voiced. Even NPC's on the side of the road could have their own voices.
Is this feasible right now? Nahhh. The voices aren't perfect yet. But in 10 years?
What do you guys think?