News Uncovered EA patent would use AI to replace professional voice actors with (fake) you

[Admin]

Electronic Arts has filed a patent intent on allowing gamers to insert their AI-approximated voice into the main character of a gaming experience.

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[randyh121]

Why can't I just speak to the character? I'm all for AI in games in every way possible but this seems pointless

 

[vanadiel007]

I remember years ago Everquest Next was going to have dynamic NPC's that would be able to interact differently based on player input.

Lot's of speculation on how that would work, and in the end it all fizzled out into nothingness.

This will be another one of those ideas. It's just a Company trying to sell their technology to a gaming company.

 

[-Fran-]

I guess it's cheaper than paying** for a good voice actor.

I also hope it is opt-out, since I don't want EA forcing a EULA down my throat where I give them rights over my voice phonetics.

Regards.

 

[hotaru251]

its just a way for them to get users to agree to having their voice stolen legally.

its stupid & scummy.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Is this a feature you actually want to play a video game with?

If it's done well? Yes. There's plenty of games which don't translate the speaking voice into other languages, have a vast number of speaking NPCs that just recycle the same few spoken lines, or even have spoken languages at all, but it'd have to sound natural and not like Alexa/Siri/Google Voice Assistant.

First, though, they need to develop AI that syncs lip movements to the language spoken

 

[JTWrenn]

It's EA. I almost guarantee this comes with some data collection bs that let's them add your voice to a library they will move in the future. The company is pretty gross.

 

[ekio]

How can they get a patent for an idea thousands of people already had because it’s so basic ??

The patent system in the US is really f$$ked up.