A new EA patent is hoping to let players provide the voices for in-game characters themselves.
The new patent outlines a system, which you can see visually below, that sees players input speech into a synthesizer that goes through a converter and vocoder to the game.
“A computer-implemented method of generating speech audio in a video game is provided. The method includes inputting, into a synthesizer module, input data that represents speech content,” the patent’s abstract reads.
“Source acoustic features for the speech content in the voice of a source speaker are generated and are input, along with a speaker embedding associated with a player of the video game into an acoustic feature encoder of a voice convertor. The target acoustic features are processed with one or more modules, to generate speech audio in the voice of the player.”
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In addition to recording their own voice, this feature would allow text input. Â This would let players type the dialogue they want their character to say.
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