Video Game Cyberpunk 2077 Uses AI To Replace Deceased Voice Actor

Polish video game developer CD Projekt used AI technology in its latest release to recreate the voice of an actor who passed away, the company said. From a report: The voice of the late Milogost Reczek, a popular Polish voice actor who died in 2021, was reproduced by an AI algorithm for the Polish-language release of Phantom Liberty, the new expansion to CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077. In a statement to Bloomberg, the company said it received permission from Reczek's family to do this and that it had considered replacing him in the expansion and rerecording his lines in the original game but decided against it. "We didn't like this approach," CD Projekt localization director Mikolaj Szwed said in the statement, as Reczek "was one of the best Polish voice talents" and his performance in the game as the doctor Viktor Vektor "was stellar." Instead, CD Projekt hired a different voice actor to perform new lines for the role and then used a Ukraine-based voice-cloning software called Respeecher to create an algorithm that would alter the dialogue to sound like Reczek. "This way we could keep his performance in the game and pay tribute to his wonderful performance as Viktor Vektor," Szwed said.

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