Would you object the idea of CBU3 using Ai voice to voice player character?

[Zadood]

They could probably just get actual voice actors... But if they did it, they'd have to redo quite a bit of the game as we have quite a lot of cutscenes in the game.

While certainly is an ethical choice, I just can't see them hire VA to voice all of WoL's dialogue choice line in both economical and efficency sense,

the most realistical thing CBU3 could do is pay some VAs for their voice sample, use AI temper it, then distribute it across the playable race.

But then, SQEX might start getting greedy and cut the VA budget for FFXIV MSQ development.

Quite a can of worm out there if I say so

[HeyMcFly]

Reject AI - I'd rather a real person to voice my character, so I'm happy with how it is

Seriously screw AI

[DiaDeem]

Yes, yes I would object.

Forced overdubs with AI sound lifeless and very uncanny. I've tried them before in other games.

So, no thanks.

[DPZ2]

I would reject AI voicing my character. My own imagination is sufficient, thank you very much.

I would reject AI voicing any character in a video game because "it's less expensive than a voice actor".

[Boblawblah]

There's two issues here, AI and main character voice acting.

On AI:
I'm okay with AI being used in projects that allow solo/small groups to do things they couldn't possibly do without AI (animation help, voice acting for small projects that can't afford it, etc).

I'm not okay with AI being used by big companies to cut corners and pay humans less/not at all.

On main character voice acting:

I'm torn on this. I actually enjoyed having a voice in Fallout 4/Mass Effect/Guild Wars 2. It connected me to the world more, and I felt like I HAD a real voice. That said, I do not want a voice for my WoL. The years I've spent with Shara have been awesome, and I'm not sure any voice could do justice to who she is imo. The DRK questline is the very most I would allow, and while I loved it, I know others really didn't like it, as their WoL wasn't thinking those same thoughts and it felt like a violation.

Combine those two thoughts with my lack of faith in SE using AI in a way that wasn't lazy and cheap, and no, I don't want AI to be used to voice my player character in FFXIV.

[Limecat]

It would be cool if they used it on the NPCs in realtime to pronounce your character name instead of it being glossed over in voiced sections.

[TheOperator3712]

It's going to happen eventually whether people like it or not. The game has already had VAs die for two characters, with AI those characters can keep that VA even after their death. This is the future and you can't stop it anymore than the horse and buggy unions could stop the Ford Model T.

[ovIm]

Personally, I prefer imagining what/how my WoL speaks.

The only bit of AI in voice acting that I would accept is if they managed to let the NPCs actually say the WoL's name in a cutscene instead of something else.
(Obviously, this would need to be contractually locked down rather hard so the VA's voice cannot be used for anything but forename/surname of the characters, as well as making sure no player gets to abuse that feature.)

[PercibelTheren]

Yes. I would like them to hire actual voice actors instead. While we're at it, also get the MSQ voiced. This game has more reading than a visual novel.

[Ardeth]

I want AI to voice unvoiced cutscenes. I absolutely hate when we get cinematic craned in shots to have to read because they didn't want to pay a voice acter. Use the AI to voice the characters and pay the original voice actors' likeness rights. Little things like that. I don't want my PC voiced.