With the Say My Name mod, players can be called as they please, even the most Khajiit or Orcish names. Skyrim is well known for its character customization, but no matter the player’s race and name, most NPCs always called you Dragonborn or variations of it. Sometimes, the difference will be so subtle that it’s hard to notice there’s anything amiss due to NPCs maintaining their voice and tones almost equal to the original.

The mod isn’t perfect, but it sounds way better than expected-even when you use odd names like xX_dragon_killer_420_69_Xx, the first example Ruta showed in the video. I do plan on returning to some the voices already released to improve them with further/re-training.'īetween this and that other AI speech tool 15.ai-which is also planning to add voices from Bethesda games-I feel like we're in for an interesting year in Skyrim modding.A video showing the software changing the voice lines of some NPCs as they talk to the player character surfaced earlier this week on Ruta’s YouTube channel, as spotted by PC Gamer. They also sound just a bit off to me, but again, extremely neat! To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Īs for future plans for the tool, Ruta says 'generally the plan is to keep going down the fairly long list of voices remaining, in Bethesda's games. It's already been used for this mod that has Skyrim characters compliment you if you're walking around in the nude. It could also be used to create additional lines for existing quests or characters. It could be used to create voice lines for Skyrim companion mods. Once you generate the audio from your text prompt, you can adjust the pitch and durations using the editor.'Īs Ruta points out, there are quite a few possible uses for the application. The strengths of this model are in the artistic control over the generated audio. Ruta explains the technical side of SKVA Synth on the application's Nexus Mods page, saying that it 'wraps around FastPitch models trained on datasets compiled from in-game voice acted lines.

To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Some of the lines created for this fan made Skyrim trailer sound a bit artificial in pacing and pronunciation, but a few are quite convincing. Ruta published a couple different versions of the application for different Bethesda RPGs.

The voice lines are created with an application called SKVA Synth by Dan Ruta which outputs speech based on voice samples from Bethesda games. It's already inspired a trailer with AI-only voice acting and a new mod that gives Skyrim characters lines to compliment your dragonborn's naked figure. The magic of AI-powered text to speech continues as Skyrim modders get their hands on an application that generates speech from text based on voice samples from Bethesda games.

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