Polish online game developer CD Projekt used AI know-how in its newest launch to recreate the voice of an actor who handed away, the corporate stated. From a report: The voice of the late Milogost Reczek, a preferred Polish voice actor who died in 2021, was reproduced by an AI algorithm for the Polish-language launch of Phantom Liberty, the brand new growth to CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077. In an announcement to Bloomberg, the corporate stated it obtained permission from Reczek’s household to do that and that it had thought-about changing him within the growth and rerecording his strains within the authentic sport however determined towards it.
“We did not like this strategy,” CD Projekt localization director Mikolaj Szwed stated within the assertion, as Reczek “was probably the greatest Polish voice skills” and his efficiency within the sport because the physician Viktor Vektor “was stellar.” As an alternative, CD Projekt employed a special voice actor to carry out new strains for the function after which used a Ukraine-based voice-cloning software program referred to as Respeecher to create an algorithm that will alter the dialogue to sound like Reczek. “This fashion we might hold his efficiency within the sport and pay tribute to his great efficiency as Viktor Vektor,” Szwed stated.
