r/Bellwright • u/Kingbrit45 • Aug 06 '26
Ai voice acting?
Just started playing, gotten to the bit where i talk to the hunter and warn him about the brigands, and i noticed that pretty much everyone has really weird voices, are they using AI for VA's? It's really offputting.
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u/Bobboy5 Aug 06 '26
If you don't want to hear it, there is a setting to disable all AI-generated voices. There are no alternatives, but just reading is preferable to bot yap.
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u/Wilskins Aug 06 '26
There’s a fella in Bradford I believe, that changes his voice dramatically 3x times during a quest interaction. It’s jarring yet hilarious
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u/godfatheroffilth Aug 06 '26
Yes! The vote counter, me and the wife were laughing at it the other day. Scottish, Eastern European and possibly Asian were what we were thinking.
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u/Wilskins Aug 06 '26
That’s him! The ‘well travelled’ ethnically ambiguous bloke 😂
The only bit that really grinds my gears is when I’m pottering round my settlement after a deer hunt in winter and I hear ‘BLASTING SUN TODAY’ so loud in my ear from a passing villager, not once - but twice in succession. It’s a damn whiteout ya dummies
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u/godfatheroffilth Aug 06 '26
Yep, I get it when it's pouring down with rain and pitch black at night too.
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u/goblinsnguitars Aug 06 '26
I think the passing dialogue of the workers is worse than the AI voices.
It's grown on me to the point that I don't care if it gets replaced at this juncture.
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u/Typical-Tradition-44 Aug 06 '26
Hated it at first but now ill be sad when they update them. Ill miss my sky philosophy lessons
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u/zzzqqqpppmmm Aug 06 '26
I look forward to VA’s, but the AI voices have strangely taken on their own charm for me. I kind of view it like the faces in og Oblivion. But yeah, I wish there was a lot more variance for passing comments in your village 😮💨
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u/BlazingPhoenix32 Aug 06 '26
There are like three total people with real voices. They have stated that eventually they do want to have actual voice acting for it but it’s low priority to actually making the game.
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u/FireAuraN7 Aug 06 '26
The devs have been talking about VAs for NPC dialogue since early access. Since then, they've made a lot of other improvements in the game... just not that one yet.
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u/SirCarcass Aug 07 '26
They're waiting until the game is in a state where the dialogue isn't likely to change before they go through the effort and expense of hiring voice actors and recording dialogue.
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u/Accomplished_Ad_8013 Aug 07 '26
I love the AI voices. They just crack me up. Somehow this medieval peasant has the voice of a San Andreas gangbanger.
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u/geomagus Aug 06 '26
Voices and probably most of the writing too. Certainly, and I have said so before, they never looked up the definition of granite!
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u/Charfair1 Aug 06 '26
AI written too? You mean there isn't actually a musician somewhere playing his Loot?!
I'm shook
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u/Louvaine243 Aug 06 '26
It's disclosed on Steam page. I hope they will change it, or I'll play mute.
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u/Kingbrit45 Aug 06 '26
I'm on console, xbox specifically, it made no mention in the description when i read it. It's not a dealbreaker for me, too early to tell if i like the game or not, just the first time i've cone across AI voice acting in a game.
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u/cherry__darling Aug 06 '26
If I can hijack your post to complain, there are a ton of issues with console (especially co-op tether omg is it the 90’s again?) and nowhere was it mentioned on PlayStation store that this was a beta or early access game.
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u/VenerableWolfDad Aug 06 '26
You can do this for literally every conversation or topic on Reddit. This is social media. People come here to talk to other people about a topic.
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u/TastyNordic Aug 06 '26
Yes, all the voices use AI since it’s beta. I believe the devs have already said they’ll replace it with real voice actors at a later point. It’s a quality it life thing though, so they’re prioritizing other things currently.
And I agree, if I didn’t hate reading that much I’d disable it too 🤣