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I think AI generated voice "acting" will be great. Someone made an addon for world of Warcraft maybe a year ago that gives NPCs voices when giving you a quest. While not all of the voices exactly match the character, the voices themselves seem pretty incredible.

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Yeah it’s a cheap way to add voices. I think X4 does this with its (many hundreds of) side NPCs.

But Oblivion voiced a couple hundred characters with the same 9 voice actors and that’s a well loved game.

I’m not sure AI would add anything, but it’d make it cheaper since you don’t need to hire voice actors for side characters.

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