If it is actual (local, in-engine) Text-to-Speech, I’d see that as more forgivable. Less space taken up by audio files, better for modding/user-generated content.
Though given the mention of AI and a AA/AAA game I highly suspect they aren’t going that route.
They still needed a human to process the files, and another human to provide the voice model.
I mean, the voice files are specifically for a robot, they could have not had a human voice involved at all and eliminated one human from the job pipeline regardless by using FM synthesis or something, which has been around since before the 1990s.
Read the post, the human still got the job and was paid for it, he was just saved the hassle of going back to read new lines every time they needed a new line while still getting paid.
Yeah but this is the case for pretty much all technology. Coding getting easier and quicker through new tech = fewer coders necessary. Motion capture = fewer animators, etc etc.
Thats generally not true in arts, the job just changes. Motion cap requires different technicians and artists post capture. Its just the artist drawing the original movement thats gone. No real net loss
No matter your stance on AI, it’s important to mention they are using ai to generate robot voices.
That’s still a job that previously would have gone to a human.
I mean, they supposedly used an algorithm that payed the voice actors for contributions to the training set and gives them royalties when it is used.
Maybe, there’s a lot of games that have computer made voices for robots and stuff before the AI boom.
Is using tech to speech programs unethical?
Me, using Moonbase Alpha to generate my NPC’s voice
How dare you! /s
If it is actual (local, in-engine) Text-to-Speech, I’d see that as more forgivable. Less space taken up by audio files, better for modding/user-generated content.
Though given the mention of AI and a AA/AAA game I highly suspect they aren’t going that route.
Sure. But that does not make it unethical.
They still needed a human to process the files, and another human to provide the voice model.
I mean, the voice files are specifically for a robot, they could have not had a human voice involved at all and eliminated one human from the job pipeline regardless by using FM synthesis or something, which has been around since before the 1990s.
I don’t like this but that’s probably the least bad it could be.
Read the post, the human still got the job and was paid for it, he was just saved the hassle of going back to read new lines every time they needed a new line while still getting paid.
Yeah but this is the case for pretty much all technology. Coding getting easier and quicker through new tech = fewer coders necessary. Motion capture = fewer animators, etc etc.
Thats generally not true in arts, the job just changes. Motion cap requires different technicians and artists post capture. Its just the artist drawing the original movement thats gone. No real net loss
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Which is why the robot voice actors should unionize. It’s a crime that human voice actors have been stealing their jobs for so long!
I probably would have given it to Microsoft Sam
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Microsoft Sam mod for stellaris
Sam has a nightmare: Paul* saying “You’re not perfect.”
*= Of DECtalk