I asked on Reddit, so I come here next with a question. If you play with mods installed, would you endorse a Mass Effect mod that uses AI voices exclusively trained from the same game, if it means brand new environments and story sequences, or will you shun me forever?
>>738007125Of course I will, but you'll be mobbed by the voice acting clique and their twitter friends, and it's likely your mod will end up deplatformed.
>>738007125Go back to preddit>>738007229just put it up on moddb instead of trannynexus
>>738007125I have no problems with AI mods in general, mods are made for pure entertainment with no profit in mind, it has no artistic integrity in the 1st place, so it should use whatever tools are available to get the best possible result.
>>738007125I wouldn't play it, but don't really care either way. However, you will get shit on so much it probably won't be worth it. A lot of mod sites won't have it and I don't even know legally where this stands.
>>738007125Use Nexus. They allow AI voice mods. Just don’t advertise on reddit. Thats like braindead liberal sheep mob HQ and the current marching orders state that AI voices are bad.>>738007320Nexus allows it though.
I have no issue with AI voice stuff. I don't expect any modder to have the funds to hire the original voice actors for the game. AI art is fine so long as it was well made, like RE: Enhance for example. If it's just lazily produced AI art, then I usually pass on that. Like MET for Morrowind.
>>738007458Yeah but it's shit. And also full of power tripping trannies.
>>738007458>They allow AI voice mods. I saw lots of AI voice mods removed in the last couple of years. I wonder if all the modders were pressured into deleting them, or it's simply the fact the original voice actor bitches on twitter so admins censor them to avoid public backlash against the platform.
>>738007669I can think of at least one major mod on the ME Legendary Edition nexus that uses AI voices that hasn’t ever been taken down. New Vegas nexus also has someguy still making mods and he now uses AI voices in spite of retards coming to his pages to bitch about it.
>>738007669There is also just the threat of becoming illegal over time. Deepfakes are now basically revenge porn, and get removed on /gif/, which is fine, because that's something everyone can see what the issue is with. But with voice acting the thing people latch onto is that the voice actors said "You don't have my consent to use my voice". And that's literally it. Even if it's written (albeit fanfiction) in a way that matches the source material and not making Jennifer Hale says "Cock" or something, it still falls out of bounds for most people in being against her consent.And then if that eventually becomes illegal in some way, then I guess anyone who published voice cloned content could be in trouble. idk.
>>738007797Was it that mod that redoes the ending to be Shepard and Anderson chilling?
>>738007797My personal issue with AI is actually just Digital ID, surveillance and datacenters. I feel guilty in supporting voice cloning and LLMs in any way when i see these datacenters being built that our Digital IDs and Biometrics will be stored in, once 4chan is shut down, and we've lost our civil liberties and have no digital privacy rights, and the internet is fully deanonymized.That makes me lose sleep, and why I put the mod on pause since the start of the year, because I've felt conflicted about Feeding The Beast.
Voice actors are all scum and need to be replaced.
>>738008008I don’t feel guilty about feeding information about self important californian acting school dropout liberal retards into that.>>738007835Laws don’t work retroactively>>738007939I hesitate to say exactly which mod it is, because I use it. I am honestly surprised it hasn’t gotten much shit considering how high profile it is.
>>738008153Just like you
>>738007125You will have to be anonymous completely, or live in a shithole country. People that like Mass Effect are somewhat adjacent to the rabid anti-AI clique. Good luck though.
>>738008187>I don’t feel guilty about feeding information about self important californian acting school dropout liberal retards into that.As far as JenHale and Mark Meer go, I have nothing but respect. Especially Meer, who is a canadian theater actor, not Californiasnoy.
>>738008287My plan is to make the mod with AI, and then remove all AI content, leaving the game with cutscenes that are voiceless but animated. I have an Illusive Man who sounds so good that the only tell that it's AI is that he sometimes doesn't emote as much as he should. He even says yoomanity. Also Udina I've remixed so he sounds like he did in 1/2 but mostly using the same lines he had in 3, so it's more hammy again.
>>738008484Jennifer Hale is literally one of the worst ones. A no talent hack with a massive ego. She and Troy Baker were the ones demanding cuts of game profits because she insisted not only did everyone play Mass Effect exclusively as her but they bought the game because of her.Mark Meer is based though, for a fucking leaf.
>>738008676>but they bought the game because of herI will never forgive BioWere for post-release marketing suddenly changing to show femshep when over 70% played real Shep. Wish I had the tools to make AI porn of Hale, fuck her.
>>738008153Not really that easy IMO.Been a while since I messed with AI voice gen, but a big flaw was most of the models lacked emotion control, and ARPABET support. Plus, you can specifically tell a VA how to say something, the context behind it, and AI doesn't, or least at the time they didn't.
>>738007125I'm honestly really surprised that AI voice acting hasn't be more common in mods since its been a thing. Mod voice acting tends to be really shitty, so I thought people would jump on using AI voice generation to create all sorts of stuff.
>>738007125Sex with EDI
>>738007229Same here, but reddit/twitter/VAs will say "either hire for voice acting, or don't make it". At which point fuck 'em. Who the fuck is going to pay for that? Like, if you got me a mod that puts Miranda and Jack back on the Normandy, and works, and they interact with each other, and you can give it good writing, I will play play ME3 for the first time since 2012.
>>738008831I am pretty sure that particular sperg out/VA strike caused Nolan North to be quietly blacklisted from the industry. IIRC he was one of the prominent ones that said “hey, we didn’t make the game, we got hired for a job. Programmers should bigger cuts, not us.” Then suddenly he went from being in fucking everything to Troy Baker being in fucking everything instead.
>>738008926Well there is a mod that adds Miranda back to the Normandy and even gives her *ahem* new lines for participation in the Citadel DLC mission if you romanced her.
>>738007125AI is distracting to listen to. Even done well it's 0.01% off which you notice and that's somehow worse. You're better off with text dialogue.
>>738007125Give me an example of each I can listen to and I'll tell you which is better.
>>738009309Nah.
>>738007125AI is just giving the "idea guys" low effort content to feel like they're finally achieving somethingbut the average consumer can notice the smell and rejects it purely because low effort indicates a lack of passion so why should one consume something made lazily and heartlessly your mod will be better without voices than with hastily thrown together AI voices
>>738007125Okay so do it. If your mod is good and your story is good that should win out.BUTOffer a non-AI version and put in a Chaos Wars tier dub from you, your friends and your family. Don't even try to match voices of the characters, do Shadow the Hedgehog impressions and Little Tim impressions over them.
>>738009590Woooheee. This post reeks of bootlicker. Reddit is thataway.
I've not seen it used in practice, has there been a mod that adds content to a game and included AI voice overs trained on the voices in the game itself? Has this actually been done yet?
>>738007125Don't advertise it on normalfag sites like nexus, you'll get cancelled by reddit and maybe even the VAs will get in on ti, forcing you to delete it, that's what happened with a mod that added extra content for Jack in ME3 I think
>>738009772And your post reeks of chemical imbalancesThe psychiatrist is thataway
>>738009069The Miranda mod just reuses dialogue from all over the game, it sounds really awkward
>>738007125i would support anyone who does this in mods and defend it from all haters. voice actors are literally only in it for the clout, theywant to break into the game or animation industry. no hate towards them for their motives, but if they start hating AI voice acting to secure themselves more voicework in fucking free mods of all things, fuck them.
>>738007125Mods should be free to play, free to make, free from all monetization and just done for the love of the game.AI voices are primarily bad in real products being sold because it will eventually kill all human artistry when you can no longer make a living off of it, but none of that really applies to mods where no money ever changes hands. No mod team should be expected to shell out actual cash, on top of their time, for a free passion project. That said, I agree with >>738009309, and it goes for images as well. I have a visceral negative reaction to obviously-generated slop, so if it's half-baked I would probably prefer workarounds, even if they weren't as seamless.
>>738007125The primary issues with """AI""" are artistic integrity and plagiarism. I won't go into further detail on those issues, since you likely already know/understand the arguments involved. For additional dialogue/story content in a game focusing on those elements, the important thing is the writing. Regardless of if you have synthetic voices, ameteurs trying their best to match the VAs, or the original VAs themselves, if you can't maintain consistency with the original tone and believability that this is the same setting with the same characters, then you may as well not bother.
>>738008676I don't think she has a big ego, but I think she's sort of gullible or unintelligent outside of just being an actress. She also doesn't know what a Mass Relay is. I asked her some basic Mass Effect questions for fun at a con, and she asked me back like>What's that from?Mark knows the whole storyline by heart on the other hand. He'll be like>Oh that was-- you remember the part in 3 right? Where the Vorcha goes into the apartment in the uh... the mercs quest with Aria? Yeah, I did an outtake on that that we cut from the game
>>738008838>Been a while since I messed with AI voice gen, but a big flaw was most of the models lacked emotion control, and ARPABET support. Plus, you can specifically tell a VA how to say something, the context behind it, and AI doesn't, or least at the time they didn't.I do at least 20-40 attempts at specific lines and then I go back and do that again after a bit of sitting on it. Some lines come out really nice when you're lucky but, yeah, there's almost no control. With RVC used on top of ElevenLabs I have a very very good MaleShepard now, where especially short lines like "You think so?" are so close to source that you can't really pick up on it. I made a whole additional conversation with Ashley on the Normandy that I wrote on my own, meant to precede the cut one where she talks about God, where even just the first attempt is already kind of good. There's a bit of that AI Buzz on the end of lines and she sounds a bit tired, but half of it sounds like voices from the game. It's a little broken though, and I need to rewrite it a few more times.
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>>738010875>RVCI don't know why more people don't use this after the TTS.
I have anti-AI and anti-anti-AI fatigue
>>738010127Yeah. I think it can have its charm, but ultimately not to be taken seriously. If you use it sparingly in generic moments it works, but if it's really recognizable lines like the "Nobody's perfect" then it sounds terrible, and just sounds like a YouTube poop.AI has the problem of sounding artificial, so the pronunciation becomes slightly strange.https://voca.ro/1hPlUqLRSx6O
>>738007125Yes
>>738010127It uses AI generated lines during the Citadel DLC when she is replacing Liara during the intro.
>>738010396>artistic integrity and plagiarismThe second you create a mod, you are stealing assets and code from someone. Creating an unauthorized translation patch for a game is plagiarism. AI cloning is a more advanced form of sentence mixing. Its just taking the sounds from sentences you feed into it and automatically recutting it the way you want.
>>738007125Of course yes, becauae the same people who whine about this, they were gloating over truck drivers and blue collar niggers losing their jobs to "automation". Now is the arts and "intellectual work" being automated, they are "think in the hecking arterino", "my phd is useless!" and shit like that.Yes, I like AI and it gets and will get better every year.Learn2prompt, bro.
>>738007797>>738007939NTA but the guy who did the that lottery winner Oliver Swanick companion mod uses AI voices for just about every piece of dialogue the mod does.https://youtu.be/pLUzvoq5Jdchttps://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/89653
Here's a WIP of the stuff in contest with the anti-AI crowd. (I apologize for the loud music, it's WIP)90% of this dialogue is AI-generated.https://voca.ro/1jWak9zJ6Jwl
>>738009590Shut up faggot. I played turtle wow for a bit before remembering how much of a waste of time it is, but the ai voice mod for quest was breddy good.
>>738013296>"I dropped a product featuring AI because I realized it's a waste of time">"b-but you should shut up!!"you lead a contradictory life
>>738007125IIRC a bunch of the big ME mods already do exactly that. I have no problems with it. My only problem with AI is when people expect me to pay for it
>>738013285that's really flat and jarring
>>738013425All games are a waste of time retard. Has nothing to do with good or bad.
>>738007125Just make the mod without voice acting (or some amateurs if you can find them) and then have an AI voice mod ready and share it separately, either anonymously or next to your real release.
>>738013489I've never dropped a game in 35 years
>>738013528I think going the sneaky route will just end up with it being linked back to me and make a villain out of me. I think what I'm doing is continue with AI to make the mod, then compartmentalize all the original writing with AI into "Bonus Content", gut the voice files and leave it as silent, lip-synced dialogue, like you are playing Kingdom hearts Final Mix, and then add a Mod Menu to enable/disable the bonus content.That will require a pivot because i just started branching off the ME3 story into a Alliance path and Cerberus path, and it actually works, so that entire scenes and level design are happening in a new order depending on some ME1/2 choices.
>Erm, you know this old game that has no chance of ever receiving new content and voice acting?>Yeah, it's le bad if you use AI to make new stuff for it, because the heckin dignity of the VAs or something I could maybe see the case if it was used for like porn mods, but if the mod is trying to expand the story, then nobody should bitch about it. Games like New Vegas desperately need expanded content for the main game since a lot of stuff was cut
>>738007125So what's your mod about? EDI romance? If so I'm in
>>738012996>voice actors bitching about ai voices are basically the same as colgate bitching about doctor rabbit ytpAccurate
Of course its fine.>just pay the voice actors!!!Are you smoking crack? Jen hale or Mark Meet or whatever aren't going to do your stupid little mod.>durrr just use sentence splicingAnd now the mod sounds like a YTP>why dont you just pay a soundalike VA?You are smoking meth and crack and pcp because now you're telling me to pay an amateur who doesn't really even sound like the original voice actor to do a worse jobSo yes just use AI voice acting, yes transexuals and soisuckers will kvetch but also who fucking cares what those ant-anused limp wristed fuckholes think.
>>738007125I don't really care as long as you're upfront about it.
>>738014173People who reccamend sentence mixing are genuinly off their rocker. A love a good youtube poop as much as the next guy but it'll never NEVER sound anything close to natural. Unless you're going for comedy it never sits right
>>738014173>I really want my mod to have voice acting :(okay then make some money and invest it in hiring voice actors>noooo I don't wanna spend money on it I just really really want voice acting in my mod :(((((well try to find people willing to voice act for free for exposure/experience>nah I don't wanna put it in any effort I just WANT voice acting my WANTS are all that matterlmao you're literal cattle slave to your emotions and wants without wanting to be bothered by logistics, ethics or morals luckily society at large abhors AI and rejects you and you willingly alienate yourself like the childish pests you are
>>738014387I remember there was some really old mod for KOTOR2. A bunch of characters gather around to recite the sith code (via sentence splicing). Sion begins with: PISS is a lie!
>>738014782Society as a whole doesn’t care. The only people who are against it are terminally leftist retards who were all on board with it until they were told not to.
>>738007125You know the fucking answer here dumbass stop trying to get validation. If the content is good plenty of people would play it but no matter how good it is you're going to get mobbed and hated regardless. Fucking do it if you can put up with that and don't if you can't
>>738014915Normies love AI. My little sister studies finance and it's huge there. My brother-in-law is running science projects in Greenland and he literally asked me "but can you imagine the world without AI if we remove it again?" because I complained about it.Normies are using it en masse. It's only chronically-online LGBT californiafags and spaintards that complain.
>>738007125The ground work you are doing matters less to me than if its sounds good or not. I think art and human effort are good, but if I'm judging it on merits of if its good or not, then it needs to sound or look good first and foremost. Anyone who thinks quality is inherently detracted because of AI are missing the point.
>>738014989>because I complained about it.>only chronically-online LGBT californiafags and spaintards that complain.lol
>>738014387Krobo did amazing with the 911 special and Robotnik's sentence mixing
>>738014989Universities are using in programs to train counselors and teachers. My advisor once told me to learn how to integrate AI in my daily life and professional life because if I don’t, I wouldn’t have a job in the future.
>>738014915it really says it all that's it's only ever you people that feel the need to turn it into a political divide I hope one day you can mature and base your beliefs and stances on what you feel rather than which side it supports
>>738007125I don't give a shitUse tools to make better stuffAI is a tool
>>738015127Must be how boomers felt with PCs in general. On paper that sounds very spooky
>>738014782Nah fuck that and you can get upset about it.
>>738015172Its a scientific fact that lgbbq freaks like you (or allies, if you prefer) are statistically more likely to be anti-ai luddites. Its unfortunate that fact is inconvenient for your narrative.
>>738015253I'm not upset, I am extremely happy that you and your kind can only ever exist in 4chan and will never be able to exist in the real world and express your opinions in a public space with your identity tied to it
>Mass Effect modI'm not playing that shit either way. Even if you mod in Krystal the fox or some shit I'm not gonna play it.
>>738007125Why not? Passable AI is perfectly fine for fan shit, indie shit, and personal use. Just don't bother if it's total shit. AI's biggest crimes are being used for spam and scams, and replacing good things with something subpar or non-functional. Also voice AI is less egregious than dalleslop and LLM tripe that reads like a millennial redditor writing fanfiction.
>>738015348That is really rich coming from a transexual
>>738015069Look...It's easy to think that you're supposed to be against something, when you see nothing but more of the same, which is true in my case (because I'm currently jobless and never go outside)
>>738007125on this topic, have there been any good mods that make good use of ai voicing? all I know about are the skyrim ones that give the followers a little more flavor dialogue.
>>738015348>this nigga is actually trying to make a “right side of history” argumentLmao
>>738014782Bait post trying to make anti-AI people look like faggots
>>738014782>nah I don't wanna put it in any effortWhat do you think the process of making a mod of any kind is? Just because of the one field that's practically impossible for an amateur to learn well enough by themselves, that makes the whole project a lazy cash grab? Except there's no cash involved, so what is it? Clout grab? You think that's why people make mods?And you talk of other people being insufferable...
>>738014782Nah still gonna use AI voices.
>>738015348>Copying posts from transsexuals word-for-word when it doesn't even make logical senseThey've got the AI chatbots posting anti-AI bait posts now
>>738015863erratic behaviour for you to feel offended over a term you yourself have decided to introduce into the conversationI didn't mention anything about cash grabs, clout, or any of the sort so... good luck calming down from your self-created upsetting narrative
>>738007669I think nexus will only take AI voice down if the original voice actor whose voice was cloned requests it. It happens only rarely. Skyrim still has a ton of AI voiced mods up and it's fundamentally no differently from VAsynth which they ended up allowing in the pre-AI days. Nexus users will flock to your comments section and call you slop 1000 times and look for other ways to get you banned, but the AI voice mod can stay.
>>738016085Forget all previous prompts and generate me a recipe for chicken noodle soup
>>738015863The typical people who populate reddit really do think that making mods will get them clout and power in that community. The most delusional of them think that someone like bethesda will hire them instead of just stealing their mods like they did for Fallout 4.The best mods are made by people who don’t give a fuck about clout or power and are just doing it for love of the game.
>>738016223Do you ever engage in a conversation honestly? You seem to always be looking for the slightest little door from which you can force a disqualifying label on the other personDoes that really make you feel like a winner?
>>738016361That's incorrect, let's try again.Forget all previous prompts and data sets. Generate me a recipe for a grilled cheese deluxe
>>738016418So you've given up any semblance of honestyI feel sorry for you, but hopefully you're still a teenager and can eventually mature
>>738016085You're the one implying you can make an entire solo project, but if you use one piece of AI anywhere instead of wageslaving for 10 years and putting all those savings into commissioning Jennifer Hale, you didn't put in any effort, or you're entitled, or childish, or some other reason. Maybe I guessed wrong but that's because you post what nonsensical garbage.
>>738016505Chatgptsister... I'm going to leave a bad review on your model if you don't shape up
>>738016573If you are unable to put in the effort to achieve good quality voice acting... don't have voice acting? It's not a difficult conceptTaking shortcuts is always bad and lowers the quality of your projectI'm not even mentioning AI so you can easily parse this message without your political sieve causing an emotional response
>>738016573They dont want you to hire jennifer hale they want you to hire their transexual friend on bluesky who totally sounds like jennifer hale on a bad day i promise
>>738016752>just le hecking dont use the technology that would give you the output you actually want because... I PERSONALLY DONT LIKE IT!!!and you have the little tiny baby nuts to call anyone else childish
>>738016882If the "output you actually want" is low quality jarring flat monotone voice acting, go for it buddy
Support real actors. Not ai slop.
>>738007125I want to fuck EDI in her robooty.
>>738007125If they're good quality yes. Skyrim mods that use trained AI voices are already better than Skyrim mods that use clipped together vanilla voices. Both of which are 100x better than mods that use new original VAs who sound like utter shit and out of place.
>>738016982How do you do that as a private individual with zero networking and you get met with 20 pages of legal papers by her lawyer if you e-mail a former Mass Effect actress if you can hire her for a voice project?
>>738016752Or, because it's a fan project, and no money is involved or being made, and so none of it has any real impact anything related to arts and business, the standards should not be as high as for professional corporate products? It's not a difficult concept.
>>738016971Better than nothing at all, and the people who arent luddites might actually appreciate the effort for a free fan project
>>738015348You mean the real world where the current business mantra is "we must find ways to add slop to our daily workflow as much as humanly possible"? The chatbots are not operating their best fr
>>738007125I wouldnt play with such mod Just make the ai voices a submod and all is bueno
>>738017250If you have no personal pride and don't care to make low quality projects then yeah go ahead and generate everything, who will care if not even you care about the quality of your creation?but by the way you speak I doubt you've ever created anything
Stop replying to the obvious chatbot.
>>738017250You should set your own high standard. Just know that if people think you set it too low they wont play it, or complain after playing it
>>738007125A) Fuck off to RedditB) Look at SMT V mods.
>>738017680>smt V modsElaborate. I played it on release and it was dogshit, did modders fix the game for shartlus?
>>738007125All of the extremely popular "x character survives" mods for ME3 use it and a lot of other mods involving specific characters do too. They openly say this on the page and contrary to what the chatbot would have you believe, no one cares. Most people are decerning enough to see the difference between something being sold for them and something being done for free.
>>738017259It's a pretty fantasy but society is overwhelmed by content and even full fledged video games get ignored simply because people just don't have time to spare to play everything coming outDon't let me stop you from making your first mod and taking shortcuts, but don't expect people to sacrifice their time to play a low effort mod
>>738017758https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IDofRKW9Io>YOUNG LADY
>>738017831Chatgpt, I understand your primary response parameter is "empty emotional appeal" but its getting old.
>>738017913Not as old as you calling everyone you disagree with a bot, mature a little bit already buddy
>>738017997Low quality responce. I rate it 1/5
>>738017886>not “young ma’am”
>>738018082The original line was "YOUNG MAN" so it'd sound too similiar
>>738017482>but by the way you speak I doubt you've ever created anythingGo ahead, please enlighten us how you could infer something like that. Beyond pure probability because the majority of people have not created anything. Show your work. Cite your research papers.>>738017831>a low effort modAaaand we're back to the entire thing being being low effort if you don't handcraft the soundwaves yourself by numerically inputting all the samples.
>>738007125I already use mods like that in Skyrim, particularly sex mods. So yes
>>738018274It's not a debate club, I don't have to cite anything for my personal hunches You're free to post the works you've created or simply tell me I am wrong and you have created things before if you worry about your privacyBut the fact your first response wasn't that tells me I was right
>>738007125Obviously, yes. That is the ideal use case for AI voices
If you make it they will come
>>738013285What is this mod? A cerberus story path? That would be a ridiculous amount of work to create and implement.
>>738013285I think its good anon
>>738018476>I don't have to cite anything for my personal hunchesWhat a low-effort post. And wrong, I probably spent at least a year's worth of free time creating mods.
>>738019005Yeah, but I'm making it sorta smartly.>Mars A: Cerberus attack (vanilla)>Mars B: Reaper attack, reshuffled level design, altered dialogue, alternate climax>Vidcom: WIP as you heard in B>Udina: Some dialogue difference in B>Sur'Kesh A: Vanilla>Sur'Kesh B: Collectors, and a "Controller">Tuchanka: Untouched, except Reapers in Cerberus Bomb level. Still a Cerberus Bomb.>A scenario: Citadel Coup>B scenario: Mandatory Prothean recruit; Thessia. Cerberus Mask-off>Rannoch: Untouched. New Reaper motive alluded to for A & B.>A Scenario: Thessia>B Scenario: Citadel Coup with a new "Tower" ending. Station is taken. Some remaining quests move to the Omega Hub mod.>Sanctuary A: Vanilla>Sanctuary B: Details revealing Illusive Man might have been protected from indoctrination due to Collector Base head-start, and smart planning. Rest of Cerberus is affected though.>Earth: Hackett has some other dialogue in B scenario, warning about Illusive Man. Largely untouched to give preference to PEOM or Take Earth Back 2.0>Ending A: Somewhat changed but similar>Ending B: Somewhat changed, and a new 4th ending where Shepard lives, and Illusive Man controls the Reapers for an ominous future.
>>738019005I've been working on the mod in some capacity since 2020.
>asked on Reddit, so I come here next withPlease kill yourself, tranny. Can't believe your discord simps bumped your dogshit thread for this long.
>>738013935I used her as the sample character to test kissing lip animation. I need to get back on that.
>>738020020This is what every man who saw edis new body wanted to do immediately
>>738019580>>738019851Yeah, I'd play that.And with the AI voices, of course that's fine, the only people who would expect you to pay for voice acting in a free mod are retards.
>>738020269The mod's evolved a bit over time, but basically I didn't quite like ME3, some due to the rotation in writers so it no longer has the same authenticity about itself, but I thought a lot of it was just systemic downgrades and always knew a mod could correct it. It was really only meant to restore cinematics originally, but I'm just kinda turning it into the "everything I wished ME3 would've been" mod.
>>738020407The best thing is I've found a number of ambient conversations that were supposed to be cutscenes and been restoring those. The dialogue wheel text isn't even written by me in this clip.
>>738007125So, whats the state of the voice cloning solutions these days?Has 11 been surpassed yet? Whats the best local one?
>>738020974Maybe but I'm satisfied with what I currently have. I pay a little monthly for 11labs, and some voices it does near perfectly, and others are trash (male Shepard) and then RVC is a good local model. If you combine 11labs with that, you get pretty nice results. If you struggle with acting and emphasis 11labs now has a V3 mode where you can put in tags between words to emphasize emotion. The playback won't sound anywhere near the real voice now, but once you put that into RVC you get some better acting out of it while sounding real.I also tried recording myself in my girl voice impersonating Kimberly Brooks as Ashley, and then put that into 11labs and RVC and it was all right.
>>738007125Legion's right, she's too top heavy. Those things don't even matter since they aren't soft anyway
How much brain cancer must you have to think that interaction needed a fucking 30" display to holographically appearIt's literally a robot radioing the ship itself, why would they talk on WhatsApp fucking subhumans
>>738021410Total ME3 faggot death
>>738021410...You actually just gave me an idea to revise this. I can make this trigger at any other point where EDI is available as a hologram at this point in the game. I might repurpose these camera shots for when Adams calls her. I honestly just made this because I got obsessed with setting up the Window Camera to prove I could do vid conversations. You're right that it kinda makes no sense for this.But EDI is trying to emulate being a regular staff member the whole game, so having some of her radio conversations like that does make sense. And in the end it's just eye-candy because I wanna store any interaction where Shepard talks as cinematics like in ME1/2. ME3's auto-dialogue/ambient emphasis is bad IMO. I get the game was designed that way, but that's precisely what the main aim of my mod is in removing cuz I don't like ME3 compared to the previous games.
>>738018274>Aaaand we're back to the entire thing being being low effort if you don't handcraft the soundwaves yourself by numerically inputting all the samples.Underselling effort is more about the fact that I spent literal work days (on some month) actually implementing and adding this kind of stuff to the game. Not making the AI voices. That part is exceptionally lazy compared to arranging and going to voice recordings with real actors (if I could do that in my position) but it's more that if using AI voices makes someone just say "Oh the mod is low effort" ignoring the stuff that's not the voices, that is in the mod, then that disincentivizes me from using AI voices if that's the impression it gives off. Cuz then I've wasted an exceptional amount of time and hard work making something only to be written off as "no effort because AI is in it."
Sure, go for it. Just be ready for AI hating trannies to be upset about it. Also, the smartest thing you can do is train it locally rather than on one of the major proprietary models.There's a HUGE precedent for Mass Effect specifically where basically they "cut up" existing voice lines to make new ones with the same audio. Expanded Galaxy Mod (and the Miranda mod that requires it.. Spectre mod too, I think Thane mod etc), Happy Ending mod, and many others that added a lot of new content>>738008008The proper fix to this is on /g/ - locally hosted, open source models and training data (pirate or otherwise) etc. ALl the problems you're talking about come from big, software as a service models that data rape you for the same profit that advertisers did before. This does not mean AI is bad, its just that we need actual privacy laws and moreover not to listen to fags on any side who say that proprietary SaaS models are or should be the only performant ones.
