Whether it’s a harbinger of doom for professional voice actors or just a fun way of customizing dialogue, the tool shows AI can have a powerful role in video game modding. The problem is that with so many mods, its difficult to find the best ones. Each and every new edition of Skyrim comes with new mods that improve on it.

Skyrim holds the record for the most mods created for it. Furthermore, with over +7000 unique voice lines, Inigo is by far the most. Anyway, using Stories and Laura and they work very well. Old players and new players alike have rekindled the interest in finding the best mods for the game, of which there have been plenty. You can drop him a tip for his work at the app’s Patreon. posted in Skyrim Mod Requests: Ive been playing skyrim and I wanted to. If you wanna try it out for yourself, Ruta’s produced a handy video guide for users and a more detailed text tutorial. The models used for each character are trained on in-game voice-acted lines.Īfter generating the audio from a text prompt, you can control the emotion and emphasis of the lines by adjusting the pitch and the duration of individual letters. It also means new vocabulary can be generated, outside of what the voice actors have already read out. The use of neural speech synthesis leads to natural sounding voices, something which is very difficult to do with more traditional methods involving concatenations of existing data.

The tool was created by software developer Dan Ruta, who said it’s powered by a field of deep learning called neural speech synthesis:

Others are using it for more quirky creations, like this mod that forces characters to compliment your naked body: YouTuber Adriac used it to produce a pretty impressive trailer - although the tone of voice sounds slightly artificial at times:

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