AI Voiced Morrowind is Here (and it's kinda insane)

[@CoffeeNutGaming]

How heavily do you think AI will be utilized in development of Elder Scrolls 6? Is AI hitting the point that something like Daggerfall could be pulled off at scale? Interesting to think about!

[@erisk.1707]

I hooe not at all, voiceacting is such an undervalued and sadly already underpayes labor of absolute passion as is, all voiceactors I ever experienced in Interviews or things like critical role are just genuinely awesome and down to earth nerds with a passion for acting, some of who really had issues to perform as an actor and where really extatic to find a Profession where they not only can follow their passion as actors without being put on the spot, since they weren't able to get into movies or Stage Performance due to social anxiety and stage fright, but where also able to act in the things they already love, videogames. And as with all things which are now exploited by some ai bros, like AI "Art" and now voiceacting, there is no passion involved, nothing real and no matter how far it advances it always feels off, not only that but it also only works by pulling from already existing art/voicework, which means that it can't work if it really takes a Foothold as industry practice, because then there isn't any new Material to steal from so it becomes repetative. The worst thing is that there is so so many menotinous tasks which algorythms like this can do to just make life easier, but instead we use it for artforms, which we humans are not only able to do ourselves, but which brings some color and enjoyment into our lives. So should we really go on with replacing creative outleds with machine learning "created" aka Stolen stuff? Until nothing remains but the gray, boring, lifedraining day to day life? Please, I know making the game more acccesible like this is a really tempting prospect, and it may seem like a crime without any victim, maybe even the people involved may have genuine and good intentions, but the harm mods like this can do longterm by promoting an "easy way" to create "Art" for free is really really serious, and I know from your other content you are a genuine and good Guy, so I please ask you to not use your Platform to promote deeply harmful trends like this, because as soon as game companies like bethesda use this like you suggested with this question an entire artform will be dead. I don't want you to take the video down or anything like that, I don't have any right to do so even if this is what I meant, but we need people making strong stands against this type of mod now. Because it is this very idea of simplifing creativity for more accesibility that is at fault for brilliant writers like Michael Kirkbride leaving bethesda, making Morrowind a one of a kind game which magic bethesda has not been able to recreate since. I would ask that you at the very least just consider what I said.

[@TheRevan1337]

@@erisk.1707 voice actors are going to have to adjust to the existance of AI voices, and should offer (or choose not to offer) the use of their voice for an in-house AI program as part of their contract

[@erisk.1707]

​@@TheRevan1337and for what goal exactly? To allow big companies to underpay their voiceactors even more? So that they can Chose to only höre voiceactors who are willing to fuel their lobrary of voice samples silencing voiceactors who chose to not allow some company to use their vocie for whatever they see fit? This would literally benefit noone except rich ceos who want to be even richer than they already are and only hurt the creative process, AI voices don't have to be included to any extend at all, voice actors don't have to adjust to a deeply sickening practice at all, just because some Crypto bros want to make Dagoth Ur videos where he says some racist s*it without any consideration for the original voiceactors right to his own voice. The only course of action moving forward is for people to come to their senses and for Unions to push for outlawing developers and movie Studios from using this garbage entirely.

[@VarenvelDarakus]

@@erisk.1707 as much as i know the pain , genie is out of the box my dude , you cant put it back , even if all goverments worldwide would ban it , countries like russia and china would keep using it , and its technology you cant be "behind others" as otherwise these countries would dominate "erverything" , this is not another gimick , this is breathru who will change history , like invention of steam revolutionised industry , neural AI will revolutionise world , question is if in good or bad way but you cant stop it now , i mean you can try but i dont think it will be time well spent.

[@emmw7794]

That's EXACTLY why TES 6 is taking so long. I started playing Daggerfall recently and it hit. Todd wants a game with the quality of StarField as Massive as Daggerfall. That procedural tech they are using for StarField, yep. They've been developing it for TES 6. I can bet Tes 6 will have that same size map and have all of Tamriel in it. That's what they are building. A real living and breathing full scale Tamriel.

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

This mod is perfect, because the AI model is just flawed and robotic enough to make it sound like genuine Bethesda voice acting.

[@DanRelayer_Ukraine]

THIS

[@ZebraOnYourNose]

Todd's vision has truly been realized

[@Nakisey]

IT JUST WORKS

[@IonutzLOL]

😂😂😂

[@stuckupcurlyguy]

It's honestly better than a lot of the Oblivion and Skyrim voices

[@TKsh1]

I was amazed when I heard Fargoth's AI voice, it's so accurate yet with an Oblivion-like cheesy tone.

[@CoffeeNutGaming]

Some of them are scarily close to the real thing. Crazy tech!

[@DeltaNovum]

He sounds a bit like that far right dude with the short black hair that's always in the news. Forgot his name tho.

[@awesomeprograms4433]

​@@DeltaNovumBen Shapiro?

[@DeltaNovum]

@@awesomeprograms4433 yeah indeed! But a much friendlier version.

[@IlIlllIIIllIIlIIlII]

feels just like when I read the Harry Potter books and then saw the movies, Daniel Radcliffe replaced my mental image of Harry Potter. Fargoth has always sounded like this... I read all his lines in this voice 20 years ago

[@justsomedude5727]

Morrowind is old enough where the AI "feel" somehow doesnt feel out of place

[@nobodyyouknow1065]

Caius has been living the shirtless dream since 2002 and I’m very happy for him.

[@CoffeeNutGaming]

An inspiration to us all

[@f-man3274]

We gonna make it, n'wahs

[@cachorrosovietico8398]

It's so strange hearing voiced dialogues from random npcs in Morrowind, it feels like something that came from Sheogorath's plane of Oblivion

[@YggLart]

Quem diria que um cachorro soviético seria fã de morrowind

[@cachorrosovietico8398]

@@YggLart Barbas soviético

[@Fadeproof312]

Pretty cool. Now lets here them say "Arkngthunch-Sturdumz"

[@panokostouros7609]

Bless you

[@nephatrine]

Or literally any daedric ruin name or ashlander tribe names.

[@Potatoflesh]

I'm blown away by how well the AI captures natural intonation from the text of the lines.

[@FunboyMacphallush]

I've played Morrowind for over a decade. They did a great job with the voices and it's not weird for me at all.

[@martinsch]

I have just finished Morrowind for the first time today and I couldn't imagine playing it with fully voiced dialogue. There is WAY too much text for that and it would drag at some point. But this mod will get more players into this fantastic game, which is awesome.

[@DingleBerry-jb4gj]

@@martinsch Would be nice if you can toggle it on or off at will.

[@kingklipo]

(You can toggle it on n off)

[@MadGlad-Dummy]

Holy moly when Arrille was talking about popular potions and scrolls I somehow learned a lot more then just reading then again I'm also dyslexic this mod would help me understand

[@AlphaGarg]

Same! I'm not dyslexic, but I do have severe memory problems, and after reading it for my first playthrough, a year or two on I now found myself with no memory of what he said there. It's like my brain just ignored the text assuming it already knew the contents even though it had forgotten them. Very excited to play with this mod in my next TES3MP playthrough with friends.

[@big_digo]

Fargoth sounds like ben shapiro lmao

[@CoffeeNutGaming]

I'll never unhear this lol

[@tythomason6228]

This mod is great. I installed it near the end of my first playthrough. Don't get me wrong I love reading and all, but it was just awesome putting a voice to the faces I had seen for HOURS and the AI does a crazy good job. ps god bless you coffee for your vids, helped me a ton when I started playing

[@bobgrimes8618]

This needs to come to OpenMW due to its superior engine and stability.

[@augustheat]

why cant it now? all mods work the same

[@bobgrimes8618]

@@augustheat It depends on MWSE which does not work yOpenMW.

[@aftonstjarna4530]

​@@augustheatOpenMW lua scripting is not complete yet and the mod requires MWSE

[@Spurgtjoe]

Have we gotten it yet??

[@sayuas4293]

This will be great for future modding projects for all games

[@Xegethra]

I always wanted Neverwinter Nights to be fully voiced as well.

[@micromints1735]

I can't tell the difference because most Oblivion voice acting already sounded like this

[@dingdong8842]

Uncle Caius is the best character in Morrowind.

[@wormypotato]

I have really bad dyslexia, this mod is perfect for me

[@MagicHjalti]

Me to dude😅

[@exigm]

this is so insane.. I'm so fired up seeing this. The future is now!!

[@bendaniels9716]

Amazing work as usual coffee! Its so cool to have a channel like this you can come and share in a love of a 20+ yo game. Keep killing it king.

[@bobgrimes8618]

Since watching this 6 months ago, a patch for OpenMW has been developed and now this great mod is compatible with! I am now using it on OpenMW and it’s great!

[@sp10sn]

Cauis ought to have been in the style of someone iconic like John Wayne or what have you. Amazing, regardless. Hoping it comes to OpenMW. The mod developer has committed to supporting the port once their LUA implementation can support it.

[@Sk00maPipe]

I've never sounded better! Thanks for the visit!

[@over7532]

By optimizing the audio sample & messing with the settings, you can get virtually flawlessly naturalistic results.

[@alanwatkins3900]

I'd say in a few years you'll start seeing people craft unique voices and selling them like you would any other game asset.

[@ao1778]

Why would anyone "craft unique voices" when you can literally use AI to replicate existing ones ..?

[@cryingcrane8173]

​@@ao1778if the right to use someone's voice in an AI program becomes legally significant (which it seems it's going to be/is in certain contexts), then custom voices or voice actors with a specific license to be used in AI generation is an intuitive market feature

[@doublejesusful]

I've been playing through skyrim again since I havent played it since release and I have to say I really appreciate how much work goes into the voice lines. I'm constantly just blown away by how much work goes into and even more mind blown at all the stuff I know I'll never hear.

[@Amaryllia]

Ever used a calm spell on the champion of boethiah? Theres some cool voice lines on a hostile NPC almost nobody will ever hear.

[@egorshavlev4924]

*Happy "Dagoth Ur memes about nwah and mongrel dogs of the Empire" sounds*

[@Sirricardo6]

That is Soooo good. Super impressed.

[@CoffeeNutGaming]

Agreed. The future is now

[@stephenleewheeldon74]

Eleven Labs is without a doubt revolutionary piece of software but the only drawback is the fact the application uses Quota and once that’s ran out you need to either wait a whole month for it to reset or need to upgrade to a more expensive subscription model apart from that it’s amazing

[@TheSacredCowtipper88]

Finally it's time to go back to Morrowind for the first time in 20 years!

[@CoffeeNutGaming]

Welcome back!

[@avalancherok574]

So you didnt like the game that much if you stopped playing it 20 years ago near when it was released.

[@mr.pumpkin8891]

i dont think bethesda will be using ai on elder scrolls 6 but im sure modders will

[@vilxxblack2472]

It would b n sane not 2

[@frostreaper1607]

That's pretty incredible, hopefully it'll be on OpenMW.

[@benhawk4214]

Somebody recently made a mod that makes it somewhat compatible

[@youssefblehcen4157]

im on my first playthrou with this mod and tamriel rebuilt so far im 150 hours into the game

[@Skaal10912]

Great video! I started playing Morrowind back in '05, and have to admit this is WILD to hear. I'll still play Morrowind with text only chat for now, but I'm very excited to see how the modding community incorporates this new tool into exciting new projects (hopefully with consent of those whose voices are used where possible). There will definitely need to be some restraint used by community especially as it pertains to adult-themed mods.

[@seinfan9]

This really breathes new life into an old game like this.

[@sacredxgeometry]

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen or heard. I have waited 20 years for this. I first played Morrowind with my older brother when I was 5 or 6. I am a grown adult now that is still invested in this community and world space…somehow. After many years contributing to the UESP website I can only see this as being what lays the future groundwork for an immersive experience like what I had 10-20 years ago with this game. It has admittedly lost some of its luster since I know everything about every character and quest, but THIS is just something else entirely new and refreshing. It makes Morrowind come alive. With OpenMW this will literally make it the greatest game already ever made.

[@kdynce8637]

I feel like this is interesting for older games such as Morrowind, but it's kind of a dangerous step toward allowing big corporations to use someone's voice, which should be their property, in new games without paying the person because they haven't actually recorded any lines themselves. Hopefully we see some kind of limitation on what is and isnt allowed for AI voicing soon to discourage the kind of voice theft I'm worried about.

[@phohecks6046]

You can't own specific voice tones, else people who can mimic voices would get sued left and right.

[@kdynce8637]

@@phohecks6046 You own your own voice though, and Coffee clearly showed a Michael Caine voice from the program.

[@TheRhalf]

@@kdynce8637 the program mimicked the voice, which gets you back to the previous comment

[@phohecks6046]

@@kdynce8637 I don't really own my voice, what can I do to stop someone to mimicking it? I can't sue them, even if I did I cannot remove their ability to mimic it again(Which is different from thing that I actually own, since I can take it back and they don't have it anymore), I could cut their tongue off but I think that'd be too much for so little. Anyway, you don't own your own voice, nobody does, you can't own vibrations.

[@acemaster3339]

​@@phohecks6046Can you confirm that? Or is that just just an assumption?

[@filiphedman4392]

I expected google translate. But this sounds incredible. Almost indistinguishable from real voices! I need to try this sometime.

[@pavloburyanov5842]

This mod need an option to disable pause in dialogs playing mouth animation. Another idea - make cinematic dialogs voicing player character as well and changing cameras

[@AvoozlPlays]

With AI voicing even custom NPC's for Oblivion can be given voices, hell even more diverse voicing can be done for Oblivion.

[@spatrk6634]

i think AI voicing will be stuff of the future games. i think it will be cheaper for developers to use AI to voice all the dialogue in games. and just pay bunch of writers to write in depth dialogues, because you can go nuts with dialogue if you dont need to have in mind that you need to pay someone to voice everything

[@KopperNeoman]

You mean more varied. You can make it Diverse by making everyone use Redguard voices.

[@sacredxgeometry]

1. A lot of the voice actors from Morrowind are also the ones used for Oblivion. They sound familiar because of this. 2. I rather like the demarcation of any and all Morrowind NPCs not delivering voiced lines for the generic dialogue; the reason is because all of these really only serve as “Tooltips”, things that help you remember things, and help you do things easier, or gain access to something or someone. It’s a lot better to let these remain as things you can simply read if you need them, while the characters have unique dialogue serves for the purpose of the gaming experience.

[@FatheredPuma81]

As someone who hasn't played Morrowind it's really easy to get yanked out of your immersion because you're expecting more out of the game because of this mod. The dialogue its self is jarring especially the part where Caius suddenly starts speaking like a marketer saying you can do whatever you want in an unrealistically positive tone. The only part that was missing was "And remember. HAVE FUN!"

[@proild]

I remember some 10 years ago there was a mod that read the written dialogue in a similar manner. Except it was generated by a text-to-speech program in real time rather than being generated by AI in advance. Sounded a lot more robotic, especially for male characters. Now, that mod was in Russian. Not sure if it exists in English version. But the notable thing about it was that it did implement lack of an in-game pause during dialogue windows (and even made NPCs' lips move in sync with the generated speech), as well as various menus like inventory. Some people used the mod just for that lack of game pause feature, while toggling the text-to-speech feature off. EDIT: I found the mod! It's called Talky Morrowind, and there is in fact the English version!

[@gaigeriel]

It's very interesting to see ai used for modding in this context but I very much dread the age of ai we're in. People are having their art chewed up and spit out by ai and being sold for profit, and I am very much against ai replacing peoples jobs like art and voice acting. It's an interesting tool that can be used to help artists and developers. But as it currently stands, so many artists and having their work straight up stolen by prompters who use ai to make "art" and as an artist I really depise that side of it. I sincerely hope ai voice acting is never brought into the industry, it'll fuck over so many voice actors who are already not paid well enough

[@KopperNeoman]

Meh. AI will never replace human artists. There'll always be a market for human art. It'll only replace the obnoxious socialist kind. And since they don't believe in free trade anyway, it's only fair that they meet the business end.

[@christophertaylor9100]

Well that definitely is not the voice I heard Fargoth speaking with but it works okay

[@DolphLundgrensDolphinDungeon]

You have 8.9k subscribers and you made a second channel? That's bold

[@bragiodinsen4604]

how can you make this video and not do dark elf male, the most iconic voice acting of morrowind?

[@Subhuti.]

Future is now

[@acrock21]

now in June 2024 this mod is about 65% complete. thats like 70,000 voice lines =o if anyone has money to give and loves the idea of this project the creator is taking donations.

[@doominator-117]

Good Dagoth, when this mod is completed, is gonna be one of the top downloads for the game, kinda like those unofficial patch or some Quality of Life mods. Pretty much almost all of the voices sounds very natural, and that is both fantastic and unnerving, this AI stuff is mind blowing sometimes.

[@Edward135i]

Being Dyslexic this is a god send I can't wait to actually play this game for the first time in my life.

[@3therspark63]

Arille feels like thats what I used to hear in my mind playing this as a teen. amazing fr

[@ZebraOnYourNose]

Imagine if this could generate voice lines on the fly so it COULD say your character's race and name and even custom class. Now that would be wild

[@KopperNeoman]

You wouldn't need on-the-fly generation. Just pre-generate it on character creation and save the lines.

[@Demirbaykus]

That's amazing

[@nope7806]

Woooooooow 😮 thx coffee! Without you i would not know we got that beautiful mod available for us now 😭❤️☺️

[@WtfRobocop]

I think main characters should still be voiced by VA but for secondary characters AI is amazing.

[@lucasramey6427]

I don't if the game's an rpg where you make a custom character it takes you out of perspective when it's someone else speaking for you and in the case of fallout 4 speaking for you, not telling you what they'll say, and not having a way to even modulate the voice so it's exactly the same each playthrough

[@Boarbatrice]

⁠@@lucasramey6427I think they mean main NPCs, not the player character

[@cloudsora]

I have such a mixed opinion on ai voices; I think Devs using them is fucking disgusting but modders it can definitely be ok especially for older properties like Morrowind. It's just a fine line to tread between the ability to have so many characters voiced and stealing the creative soul and actual jobs of people. I do like this mod and think there is a place for AI in modding but again, fine lines to walk.

[@hideakiakio6698]

I've been thinking the same thing where I'm fine with modders doing this but I'm sure some companies will abuse it.

[@cloudsora]

@@hideakiakio6698 yeah so actually it's already happening. Google "Smite AI Voice" Companies are already trying to replace creativity with talentless ai. AI can be used for good but... the rich want to get richer.

[@ZebraOnYourNose]

Have companies and devs started using this kind of technology yet? Specifically with voices they don't have permission to use? Actually asking here

[@cloudsora]

@@ZebraOnYourNose Now yes

[@ZebraOnYourNose]

@@cloudsora Well that sucks. Can you give some examples? I wanna know how bad it's really gotten

[@hulkamania5071]

back in like 2007 when i played morrowind i hated having to read everything, but it was so good i read everything and beat the game

[@thefudgems]

The natural inflection and breaths are literally freaking me out

[@MrBrankilla]

When I was little, my first impression of Morrowind was: This is the greatest game of all time. I still hold that opinion

[@oneplusseventh1260]

Listening Fargoth I just realized that I had voices in my head for every character I spoke in the game since 2005... They have always been with me...

[@icbarefoot]

Michael needs more cockney inflection.

[@KenronTheGamer]

You should have showed off Dagoth Ur's voice to honor The 6th House and The Tribe Unmourned.

[@theothertonydutch]

You can use your own voice or the voices of your friends if you feel bad about the ethics.

[@TerrorZelle]

I have no problem with voice actors getting a real job

[@zachlewis9751]

Someone should use voice AI to put Todd Howard’s Oblivion voice acting as every character in every Bethesda game. Give me monotone Todd Howard as Farengar.

[@zakuguriin4521]

Ra'Virr's voice is 🔥

[@girththeogre]

This is quite impressive! Thank you for the link! I was introduced to TES when Oblivion came out. I'll be playing Morrowwind for the first time now. Would you recommend playing with this mod? Or should I wait?

[@johnt5875]

I have dyslexia. This is awesome!

[@josephpowers7155]

i love this classic- odd that ive never beaten its main storyline

[@brandondanforth8342]

If this thing ever becomes available for OpenMW then im going to give it a shot but as it is, the performance I can get out of OpenMW vs the og game with MGE XE is night and day difference, for obvious reasons. I still prefer the look of MGE XE vs anything ive done to OpenMW and if not for the performance differences would be using it and probably this mod now but alas....

[@aftonstjarna4530]

Mod page says the author is willing once OpenMW lua is finished

[@user-yi3eb2uj3u]

Guessing there might be some complaints when we get to Anhaedra

[@moonbasebroadcasting8447]

Hrisskar with that hard F on F*tcher, WOW

[@CoffeeNutGaming]

CANCELED

[@joetheman74]

It wasn't that Bethesda wasn't thinking about accessibility with Morrowind. The reason why they couldn't fully voice act the entire game is that they couldn't fit all the dialog on the disc which would have caused an issue for the console version. If the game had been PC only like in previous games they could have spread it over multiple discs and it would be installed to a hard drive with no issues. This was not feasible on the OG Xbox.

[@goodlookinouthomie1757]

Holy Moly I just got to the part where you show Fargoth talking and I straight up would not even think it was an AI if I didn't know. I have never played this game and have been thinking about doing so - it's a no brainer for me if this mod is fully functional.

[@krystofantonin29]

Caius is a father figure allright :D teaches hand-to-hand, speechcraft and unarmored, like a true father should :D

[@dersey9469]

5pm cant come sooner!!!

[@first-thoughtgiver-of-will2456]

I can't wait till large language models are used that have a character defining pretext for every character.

[@braveherogreenleaf6256]

Loving that subtle bit of hatchet reppin'.

[@deama15]

version 2 of the ai voice is out, sounds even better!

[@TheMoinomedian]

Dagoth led the wave to a new ERA!

[@itsdare1493]

they shoud have given him a deep black voice XD

[@ringadingbaby4332]

That’s exactly what fargoth sounded like in my head. Krillan

[@sassmara8376]

I just started a new playthrough after getting the "I heart vanilla" setup on OpenMW going, I NEED to get this! Edit: after looking into the mod, it will not work on OpenMW for now :(

[@Rustyshackleford1911]

It does now someone made a patch for it

[@Masher8559]

That's actually way better sounding than i expected.

[@RyanYoxo]

Arilles AI sounds so good

[@CoffeeNutGaming]

Some of them are suuuper convincing

[@B_dev]

aye not bad! i might have to do a playthrough

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

Whoah ts2 brings back memories

[@Fancypants117]

it is cool to hear more voice lines in the game, unfortunately after hearing enough of these I'm starting to hear the standardized cadence the AI puts on things, also feels really flat after listening to enough of them you hear the slight tinge of emotion but it's not much, it's still very artificial sounding Also being AI makes me nervous about it's use

[@Stywel]

Microsoft Sam really has gone places.

[@Zephirah]

The first thing I would do i hearing my beloved Dunmer voices, the rough ones ❤️

[@Amp5150]

14:53 folks

[@BaronR]

You should look papa Caius in the eye when you show him your package 🤣

[@dennisgordon7767]

he was our father figure.. 100

[@daledozerx2920]

morrowind the best game ever. finally voiced.

[@zyxyuv1650]

To take this over the top, it needs a mod to stop the game world from freezing when you're in chat dialog, combined with a mouth animation mod so that you can see the NPCs speaking.

[@TerrorZelle]

I would even play it If thats done. the curse of having experienced oblivion first

[@mackowens7234]

Some of these voices are just from Oblivion voice actors.

[@Metaltrippin2]

Sky wind should keep original voice acting but also use this

[@Malentor]

This is amazing, I knew it was on the horizon as soon as the Dagoth Ur memes took off

[@GeorgeL909]

I can imagine. A.i. voice and VR on Morrowind. I'm so close to never having to leave my house again. If they add a fine tuned gpt like with the matrix demo, then it's over. Goodbye Boston, hello vvardenfell forever

[@TheGoombaslayer]

This is really cool , but with the amount of text in this game id rather just read.

[@ROGALLYWORLD]

then read it nobody forcing you old man