Voice work as a career is dead. The genie is not going back in the bottle. Games can now have substantially more dialog, so the end product will be better and cheaper for the studios.
I don’t think it’s dead. As it is it is going to evolve, not die.
Primary roles will be acted, that won’t go away. It’s too noticeable when it’s not a real actor when you’re with your pal for 120 hours. Johnny Silverhand or Garrus Vikarian would be jarring not having a real human.
NPCs, however, I worry about. Those random interactions I see contracts changing, where actors will have to give rights to train on their voice, where some key moments may be spoken the the rest is regenerated.
AI isn’t magic, and there are some real pitfalls around it. It can get pretty close, but someone who is paying attention will always notice.
Cheaper? yes. better? No. LLMs produce the most derivative inane BS that it would just act as filler. In classic RPGs and adventure games a lot of the filler dialogue was one line per NPC to represent a microcosm within a location. There’s nothing to be gained from theoretically infinite NPCs with theoretically infinite lines of pointless dialogue.
Voice work as a career is dead. The genie is not going back in the bottle. Games can now have substantially more dialog, so the end product will be better and cheaper for the studios.
I don’t think it’s dead. As it is it is going to evolve, not die.
Primary roles will be acted, that won’t go away. It’s too noticeable when it’s not a real actor when you’re with your pal for 120 hours. Johnny Silverhand or Garrus Vikarian would be jarring not having a real human.
NPCs, however, I worry about. Those random interactions I see contracts changing, where actors will have to give rights to train on their voice, where some key moments may be spoken the the rest is regenerated.
AI isn’t magic, and there are some real pitfalls around it. It can get pretty close, but someone who is paying attention will always notice.
Cheaper? yes. better? No. LLMs produce the most derivative inane BS that it would just act as filler. In classic RPGs and adventure games a lot of the filler dialogue was one line per NPC to represent a microcosm within a location. There’s nothing to be gained from theoretically infinite NPCs with theoretically infinite lines of pointless dialogue.