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Skyrim modders are getting creative with this AI text to speech toolFus Roh Dear
Fus Roh Dear
The magic of AI-powered text to speech continues asThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimmodders get their hands on an application that generates speech from text based on voice samples from Bethesda games. It’s already inspired a trailer with AI-only voice acting and a new mod that givesSkyrimcharacters lines to compliment your dragonborn’s naked figure. Oh, the things modders will do.
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Ruta explains the technical side of SKVA Synth on the application’s Nexus Mods page, saying that it “wraps around FastPitch [1] models trained on datasets compiled from in-game voice acted lines. The strengths of this model are in the artistic control over the generated audio. Once you generate the audio from your text prompt, you can adjust the pitch and durations using the editor.”
As Ruta points out, there are quite a few possible uses for the application. It could be used to create voice lines for Skyrim companion mods. It could also be used to create additional lines for existing quests or characters. It’s already been used forthis modthat has Skyrim characters compliment you if you’re walking around in the nude. They also sound just a bit off to me, but again, extremely neat!
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As 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. I do plan on returning to some the voices already released to improve them with further/re-training.”
Between this andthat 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.
