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Arc Raiders Developers Defend Use of AI Voice Acting Amid Fair Criticism from Players

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Arc Raiders Developers Defend Use of AI Voice Acting Amid Fair Criticism from Players

Arc Raiders devs say that using generative AI voice acting was necessary as actors "would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

Eurogamer

Arc Raiders devs say that using generative AI voice acting was necessary as actors "would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

Developers at Embark Studios, the company behind Arc Raiders, have spoken on the use of generative AI voice acting in the extraction shooter. It's argued that the initial use of generative AI line...

Arc Raiders had to use AI voices, dev insists, because real voice actors "would just go crazy if they had to read all of that" and get paid for doing it

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Arc Raiders had to use AI voices, dev insists, because real voice actors "would just go crazy if they had to read all of that" and get paid for doing it

Arc Raiders' audio director argues in favor of its AI text-to-speech, saying that "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that."Arc Raiders came under fire last year by using AI...

ARC Raiders Studio Acknowledges "Really Fair Criticism" About Generative AI Usage

GamingBolt

ARC Raiders Studio Acknowledges "Really Fair Criticism" About Generative AI Usage

Embark Studios has been open about using generative AI to create many of the voice lines in ARC Raiders. In a new episode of its behind-the-scenes series about its evolutions, the studio...

Arc Raiders Developers Try To Rationalize Using AI Voice Actors In Peculiar New Video

Kotaku

Arc Raiders Developers Try To Rationalize Using AI Voice Actors In Peculiar New Video

'The actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that!'

Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

Rock Paper Shotgun

Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

Despite taking the voice performances of actors and feeding them into machines to spurt out AI-generated mimicry, Embark CCO Stefan Strandberg insists that "we are not in the industry of replacing...

'There was some really fair criticism': Arc Raiders' devs understand why players were so upset about its AI use but say that it was 'too impractical to record' every voice line

PC Gamer

'There was some really fair criticism': Arc Raiders' devs understand why players were so upset about its AI use but say that it was 'too impractical to record' every voice line

Embark has since re-recorded lines to inject more real human voices to the game.

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