Neat. Now allow the AI to sample your own voice from a page of dialogue, then use it to voice the player character.
As is, I see the most benefit of this being for those who make mods, who can't get live voice actors to donate time.
This is a boon to modders and indie for sure, but AAA is still going to want to get a Hollywood actor in for the PR. Hell, gaming is making more money than cinema and TV combined so why not?
There have been spambots for quite a while that would copy a sentence or paragraph or some such from earlier in the thread, then add their dodgy links. That requires being able to parse the forum syntax, but no real intelligence. And that also allows them to have a reply that is mostly on topic if they're quoting someone else who was also on topic.
I missed your reply, indeed they have but they now seem to be far more sophisticated in what they say, I can't be sure but Chat AI is free and I think the spammers have found a way to use it.
There has already been some discussion about ways AI could advance game development in areas other than the traditional visual quality and here's one that goes right in the footsteps of the earlier ChatGPT discussion.
Skyrim, being such a rich playground for modders, just got its Dragonborn voice over mod, which adds AI generated voice to the previously silent protagonist. Here is a short sample (for now there is only female voice available):
You can play with this tool at their website, add whatever (English) text you want, select various voice presets and listen to the result. In future there could be all kinds of voice types, accents, tones, moods, etc., it will be interesting to watch how the system develops.
So now we can have quest texts generated by the AI and now also voiced by the AI. A few more steps and we'll probably be able to generate entire games using AI toolsets... But joking aside (or perhaps it's not a joke at all), we seem to be entering a new deep transformation in gaming (and much more, but that's not what this site is about).
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