Polish online game developer CD Projekt used AI expertise 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 a press release to Bloomberg, the corporate stated it acquired permission from Reczek’s household to do that and that it had thought of changing him within the growth and rerecording his traces within the authentic recreation however determined towards it.
“We did not like this strategy,” CD Projekt localization director Mikolaj Szwed stated within the assertion, as Reczek “was the most effective Polish voice abilities” and his efficiency within the recreation because the physician Viktor Vektor “was stellar.” As a substitute, CD Projekt employed a special voice actor to carry out new traces for the function after which used a Ukraine-based voice-cloning software program known as Respeecher to create an algorithm that will alter the dialogue to sound like Reczek. “This manner we might maintain his efficiency within the recreation and pay tribute to his fantastic efficiency as Viktor Vektor,” Szwed stated.
