Aren’t s supposed to be super nitpicky about blurry graphics, fps stutters and so on.
But now that it’s poor quality AI gen voices, slapped on top of otherwise what seems like a very well made game, they’re gonna talk about how we’re just not ready for it?
I’m still unclear what the AI voices in it even are, going off what people have been saying about it. It sounds like the actual NPC dialogue was from voice actors, who were also hired to provide samples for a text-to-speech thing for player characters? Or that it’s doing a speech-to-text and then text-to-speech filter process on proximity VOIP? If it’s literally just “it’s using text-to-speech tech on dynamic text that players provide” that’s such a completely unobjectionable thing that I can only imagine the backlash is coming from people who see the buzzword “AI” and immediately think ChatGPT instead of “text-to-speech with a slightly higher quality than it used to have”.
you can do a ping in game that makes your character say: “i have a (insert game item here” or “let’s go to (insert game location here)”. from what i understand they trained ai off the hired voice actors, with consent, to voice these lines
See that doesn’t sound any different from just having them record a phonemic inventory for a traditional text-to-speech system, it’s just simplifying the process and making it so the text doesn’t need to have a corresponding pronunciation key, and presumably meshing it in a bit better.
It’s okay I guess. I just am not impressed by the quality. Do I think this impacts the game in a major way? Not really.
There’s definitely better sounding voice changers already, listened to a bit of people using them in-game and it’s not impressive, which makes me wonder why is the quality subpar, compared to other ones, like what vtubers use. Is it because they’re made in a different way or is it because you need so much samples of someone’s voice to make it sound good—that it’s not possible to actually pay someone, for the labor it takes to produce it, and they’d either have to consent to work for a really low hourly/for free or someone just takes it without offering anything in exchange/forces them to do it.
I’m not saying I’m against the technology, but I do think it’s not being used to it’s fullest potential or being misused, for various reasons.
But hey on the bright side, for the Game enjoyers, everyone will forget about this in a bit, but the publicity might end up letting more people to know about the game and hopefully that ends up helping everyone in the end.
Aren’t
s supposed to be super nitpicky about blurry graphics, fps stutters and so on.
But now that it’s poor quality AI gen voices, slapped on top of otherwise what seems like a very well made game, they’re gonna talk about how we’re just not ready for it?
I’m still unclear what the AI voices in it even are, going off what people have been saying about it. It sounds like the actual NPC dialogue was from voice actors, who were also hired to provide samples for a text-to-speech thing for player characters? Or that it’s doing a speech-to-text and then text-to-speech filter process on proximity VOIP? If it’s literally just “it’s using text-to-speech tech on dynamic text that players provide” that’s such a completely unobjectionable thing that I can only imagine the backlash is coming from people who see the buzzword “AI” and immediately think ChatGPT instead of “text-to-speech with a slightly higher quality than it used to have”.
you can do a ping in game that makes your character say: “i have a (insert game item here” or “let’s go to (insert game location here)”. from what i understand they trained ai off the hired voice actors, with consent, to voice these lines
See that doesn’t sound any different from just having them record a phonemic inventory for a traditional text-to-speech system, it’s just simplifying the process and making it so the text doesn’t need to have a corresponding pronunciation key, and presumably meshing it in a bit better.
The sudden use of AI for literally anything that uses some algorithm is annoying.
It flattens what is a very diverse field into “ChatBot Slop”. Kinda like suddenly calling every restaurant “Fast Food”
It’s okay I guess. I just am not impressed by the quality. Do I think this impacts the game in a major way? Not really.
There’s definitely better sounding voice changers already, listened to a bit of people using them in-game and it’s not impressive, which makes me wonder why is the quality subpar, compared to other ones, like what vtubers use. Is it because they’re made in a different way or is it because you need so much samples of someone’s voice to make it sound good—that it’s not possible to actually pay someone, for the labor it takes to produce it, and they’d either have to consent to work for a really low hourly/for free or someone just takes it without offering anything in exchange/forces them to do it.
I’m not saying I’m against the technology, but I do think it’s not being used to it’s fullest potential or being misused, for various reasons.
But hey on the bright side, for the Game enjoyers, everyone will forget about this in a bit, but the publicity might end up letting more people to know about the game and hopefully that ends up helping everyone in the end.