Speaking during an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Embark Studios CEO, Patrick Söderlund, has revealed that Arc Raiders has now started replacing the AI-generated voice lines with human recorded dialogue, which he admits is “better” overall
“We re-recorded some of the lines post-launch and made them with real voices,” he said, who made it clear they don’t want to “replace” real voice actors.
There is a quality difference. A real professional actor is better than AI; that’s just how it is. We look at [AI] first and foremost as a production tool. We can test things internally. We can test 15 different lines without recording them, and then we know what to record. It’s also a way for us to work, not replace actors. We don’t necessarily believe in replacing humans with AI all the time.
Back in November, Junghun Lee, CEO of Nexon, who is the publisher for Arc Raiders, said that it’s “important to assume every game company” is now utilising AI tools, following news at the time that Arc Raiders itself made use of “procedural and AI-based tools to assist with content creation.”
Söderlund added that Embark Studios pays its actors for “all time spent” in the recording studio for their work and continues to “bring many of them back as we carry on updating the game.” Furthermore, Embark pays actors for “approval to license their voices through text-to-speech” in “select” situations, specifically for audio lines that aren’t as “essential to the immersion of the experience.”
[Source – GamesIndustry.biz via Kotaku]
