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'The Finals' Is Using AI Voicework And It Is Bad (www.forbes.com)
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As it turns out, developer Embark Studios is using AI for essentially all the voicework in The Finals.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not a generative model running on your graphics card coming up with novel speech to match the gamestate; it would never be fast enough (and you're also using that card to, you know, run the graphics). They're using machine learning to generate speech for their pre-written lines so that they can avoid hiring voice actors. I guess they didn't want to try the old way of having whoever isn't too busy in your office record the lines.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Depending on how many variables/contexts there are in the lines, that could still be a combinatorial nightmare to record.