I've fixed the part around 4:40 where Dagoth Ur says "Invented" rather than "Invested" in the latest version of the mod. I think the uesp page has the wrong dialogue for some reason? I probably should've extracted the dialogue myself.
All the mistakes I've found: 2:59 "touch each soul in Vvardenfell" "touch each soul on Vvardenfell" 3:30 "is to enter even-more-deeply" "is to enter ever-more-deeply" 4:13 "Enlightenment cannot grow back without the risk" "Enlightenment cannot grow without the risk" 4:40 "Kagrenac's lore was invented in his tools" "Kagrenac's lore was invested in his tools"
A couple of months and we will have the full game with voiced dialogue. For sure EDIT: AS 05/02/2023 project "Kezyma's Voices" aim to do exactly what I've said. Their currently at 1.2% Npc dialogues completed. Literally a couple of months
@@LordVader1094 it would certainly serve a lot of purposes but it would not fit in certain characters to have such an inexpressive and neutral tone. This is an amazing new feature but generated dialogue still has its limits
The terrifying part is: A) The sentence structure sounds natural to hear. There isn't weird pausing, chopping, etc. You can hear the nostalgia when he says "Brothers in arms..." B) You can hear the "Voice" taking in breaths in between lines.
Yeah, it's really fantastic AI. The company that produces ElevenLabs the AI software to make this work is developing a full audio workshop that is going to let you directly control the speech even further and edit the voice profile to make each character somewhat unique. I hope someone with the ambition and know-how for modding and audio production takes the time to fully voice Morrowind.
he also reads some anger into his response when challenged on his motivations and when discussing war. It really adds to the overall strength of the voice. Incredible stuff
He was your friend, to anyone else he could sound like a demon, to you, even after thousands of years, even in a different body, he is still your friend, that all you can hear.
@@kakkakokkkd6230 they probably couldn't code it right and just rolled with it, it's early game dev days so you had a lot of stuff that just remained unpolished. Kinda has a charm to it.
@@zynosgd9982 I really believe they could have coded it right. There are hundreds of npcs who won't attack you until you attack them. I am quite sure that Dagoth Ur only in that moment really does believe that you are Nerevar, you have come to kill him, and that there is a real possibility of his defeat. And of course out of fear he attempts to get the drop on you and kill you.
So I checked out Elevenlabs thinking it would be another awkward, stuttery AI voice and WOW. It sounds so freakishly natural. If you just heard it randomly, you would never know it was AI. Easily the best AI voice I've ever heard.
@@vadimdude It actually doesn't, I've seen examples where Dagoth Ur does code-switching lmao. Misinterpretation on tone and delivery is really the kind of problem any voice acting session has, and that's largely been solved as far as a sound engineer is concerned - just do more takes and splice up the best ones
Yeah same. When I first heard this AI someone sent me a video on discord of Caesar from Fallout New Vegas talking about how he brought civilization to Detroit. I totally thought it was in the game and I just never heard it before up until he said the n-word
@@ililillillillilil stable diffusion doesn't seem like it can ever be bad, really wish there was a way to have local unmoderated chatgpt but I bet those piles are like a petabyte
@@DagothsCollection If they offered it I'd hit Amazon for hard drives and buy them out ASAP, local unmoderated chatgpt sounds super interesting to play around with
This really drives home how much of an articulate, smart gentleman Dagoth Ur was. Of all the antagonists and villains in media, he's the one I would really consider joining.
I'd also throw in Emet-Selch from final fantasy 14. He makes a very good case for why he believes his methods are right despite the destruction they have created and how you could serve to gain from them too. He had the advantage of being voiced from the get-go though!
Dagoth makes a good case but I likely wouldn't join him. Kerghan from Arcanum on the other hand. That, for me, remains the single most convincing villain justification for destroying the entire world I've yet seen. "The afterlife is peace and serenity, the world of the living is suffering and death and as long as the possibility exists to bring the dead back to life or to control their souls, the dead can have no justice. No peace." Makes it even better when you realize the magics that can control the souls of the dead or bring them back to life were invented by him.
Nah you can't upscale polygons to look better even with raytracing, because it's still flat polygons. You still gotta rewrite the game, AI can only do so much with limited meta data.
@@dra6o0n Game looks great anyway. It's from before the era of "realistic graphics" that age terribly. Look at Halo CE and it's remaster, remaster looks horrid while the regular game still looks kino.
Some people are complaining that it doesn't sound right, but to me, it's almost perfect specially when you consider how little source you had to train the A.I, the inflection and intonation is eerily realistic, had you told people you asked the original voice actor to voice these lines, 99,9% of people would believe it and the 0,1% are just skeptical at everything. I worry for the future of voice acting and employment in general. We are on the verge of a massive revolution and we need to seriously start considering the future role of AI in our society.
I do agree that AI needs to be kept under control and be considered more for the sake of human society, and I do agree the voice is very impressive. However, I think Dagoth Ur already had a very strange, emotionally stagnant voice. Not that he couldn't be angered (or scared) and have emotion in his voice, but the way in which he speaks is that of someone clearly not normal or in the right mind. So the AI benefits from that. I'm honestly incredibly impressed but I can detect places where it feels stunted and could be much better. AI can generate art and it can get close, and in rare cases it can be almost spot on. But it's always "almost". I think Voice Actors, valued for their ability to give a good take in few tries, voice control, etc, at the end of the day it comes down to how they can act. Acting is an incredibly hard thing to even explain to someone, let alone teach an AI. You can use numbers and sliders and feed it more and more information on how to get "close" but I'm not convinced you can ever really take it far enough to replace the human experience and ability for the human to feel genuine emotion and convey a role in your own unique way. Anyway, I don't want to start an argument. Feel free to reply and by the way your milk is delicious.
@@ParappatheRapper And fun, voice acting is one of the most fun things I have ever done. I will say, I feel like my dream career won't be taken away from me and from many young voice actors who are trying to make it into the industry. It's a hard grind and it is not as easy as what people think. Voice acting is acting, it's not easy but the rewards are so satisfying internally when you've given your damndest to an opportunity and you'll only improve more as you move forward in the career. Also the milk IS amazing.
@@pantslessthefoolio You'll be fine. Hone your craft. There will always be people to appreciate a real voice even if it's not discernible from AI somehow. I also VA (unprofessionally mind you), and more than anything people have always liked my ability to give them the performance they're looking for and I've brought ideas about how to do the role that an AI might not have the ability to do.
@@ParappatheRapper There isn’t enough evidence of its allowed proficiency yet to convince you? I myself am more than convinced and I didn’t even know about Eleven Labs until about 30 minutes ago….Give a logical thought experiment on the juxtaposition of evolution and technological advancement, consider God in the equation and stay confused or become convinced. A.I will either lift up humanity through technological symbiosis or utterly destroy it due to the sin of human error.
A world where I could create stories, not limited to mere words and the attention span of a modern audience. I could have created fully voiced audio books with this. I could lend image to my words with the power of AI, but I am sick, and will be dead before I can even hope to use such tools. I don't fear for voice actors. Or artists. Or any guild. This power liberates the individual artist to create freely. So many new and interesting works, unburdened by the shackles of paying teams and studios; bowing to corporate interest. But I will be dead. Even if this killed every talent on the planet, every human even, I can't feel pity. None was spared for me.
I always loved how Ur comes off like he wants to forgive Nerevar and just be buds again. "I considered sharing a beer with you in the heart chamber, but all that drama a thousand years ago made me think twice."
@@Willzb-xk4ew the tribunal are deeply flawed and selfish people, though have good intentions, or least had. Vivec used the heart to brook an armistice with the empire, but it isn't too far of a stretch for me to think he'd use it more forcefully to keep Morrowind independent. Sotha Sil slowly went mad from Lorkhan's insights and went retreated into his clockwork hermetic world, and Amalexia - well, we all know what happened there in Mournhold. I do not balance the scales of the two parties, nor do I set one side fully weighted either. Sera, you can judge for yourself.
Game modding, fanfiction, and the entire indy scene just underwent a massive evolution in terms of what is possible now with voiceovers, text-to-speech scripts, radio dramas, and other similar works. They can try and clamp down on it for the sake of 'copyright,' but Hollywood and the music industry hasn't been able to stop people from downloading music, shows, and movies for decades now. They'll never be able to stop this, when it only needs a few quality samples to work. This is a new era.
The real problem with this, morally, is not the copyright -- but rather how it puts a *lot* of people out of work. Our society is not yet built to handle that.
@@Marx_D._Soul The people getting "put out of work" are the exact same people who were making fun of truckers and coal miners two years ago saying they were going to lose their jobs to robots and that they should learn to code. I have zero sympathy. If a robot can draw better than you, if you have nothing to offer, not even the ability to train unique bots in your style or voice, then go learn to drive a truck or mine coal.
This would help Skywind/Skyblivion release faster since they were having trouble finding voice actors for all the dialogue and weren't willing to use AI for years cuz it was too rudimentary. Seems like this would be perfect just for general questing.
@@azyjmexcuseokstop924 That's silly though, most of the OG voice actors would never commit to a fanmade project anyway. Unless you're speaking about the voice actors volunteering to help both mods, which they'd probably be glad to not have to do 10 different roles for since they're not being paid for their work.
@@semperk1482 volunteers agreeing to make a voicebank to generate lines seems like the way to go. Particularly useful to generate voicelines for repeated lines like rumors and topics.
It could, for sure, but I doubt they will, or can, use AI. The reason why Skyblivion and that Fallout 4 Capital Wasteland mod have to make all new recordings despite Oblivion and Fallout 3 already being fully voice acted is because they cannot use the OG voice actors without Bethesda lawyers shutting down their project. Using an A.I. to skirt around that probably isn't worth the legal heat to them.
@@Sk4llik They don't have to AI clone the OG voice actors, it could also be clones from any other volunteer or generic voices from Elven Labs. And it would expedite the process tenfold if volunteers created test samples mimicking the OG voice actors with their own voices to easily record lines. One paragraph of dialogue can take the typical voice actor depending on their proficiency from 10 minutes to an hour to complete perfectly. Now imagine the use of AI to streamline that process into just a few seconds. They are losing valuable time that could be spent on other aspects of the mod by not incorporating AI voice actors for at-least generic NPCs outside of the main story characters.
God damn now imagine a mod with full voice acting and upscaled models/textures for Morrowind. That's as close to a remaster as we could potentially get. I'm salivating at the mere thought. And how many existing mods for say Skyrim can finally get actual dialogue instead of spliced voicelines which barely make sense? Truly the future is bright for the modding scene
Have you heard of Skywind? It's a fan-made Morrowind remake using the Skyrim engine. It's as you've described: they're remodeling and re texturing every game asset, and are aiming for full voice acting. They've mainly struggled with sourcing professional-quality voice actors (especially for classic Dunmer accents), so these AI voice lines might well be a blessing them.
@@timbred8532 I have heard of it, but is it out/close to completion yet? Because I've heard of it like half a decade ago and it seemed nowhere close to release as I followed it. I commend the guys who work on it but I'm really concerned that this is just too ambitious and might never see the light of day
@@Assault_Butter_Knife Probably still a few years away, but the end's in site. Their sister project, Skyblivion (the equivelent remake of Oblivion) recently got a release date: 2025 at the latest. Skywind could be soon after, given a fair chunk of the Skyblivion devs might well migrate over.
It sounds so REAL. It even pronounced Akulakhan correctly! And he sounded sad, angry, and even took breaths after long sentences. It's almost scary how real this sounds.
ehh. Anything good here is simply an echo of the strengths of the original voice actor. He's a god amongst mortals talking to the reincarnation of his long lost friend, his long lost brother in peace and war. And he sounds like he's reading off a grocery list to his wife.
The voice fits perfectly and it is amazing for what AI can do and sound like ! I'm left with a big smile on my face after watching this and hearing Dagoth Ur's full dialogue !
I work at a studio making narrative-driven games and I just want to say thank you for sharing this! It gave me and my team ideas on how to iterate on VO faster using AI
@Garrett Chandler That is just transhumanist fantasy. It wouldn't be "us" either, but a computer program which just does its best to fool everybody that it is us.
Wow, this is really incredible. As far as I can tell, Dagoth Ur has ~2 minutes of actual voiced dialogue to train off of, a lot of which is repetitive. The read at 4:00 is AMAZING. He's so insulted. How does it manage the context so well?
using these programs, it's adaptive to how you structure your sentences. the AI tries to simulate connotation based on the grammer and capitalization, so you can create moments like these where it feels like the voice actor was re-employed. truly amazing
I’ve noticed that for voices with more samples to draw from it usually sounds worse than ones with less, like dagoth and duke nukem sound great but like a politician sounds like Microsoft Sam
I just want to say that although quality AI Voice Work like this is definitely going to change how mods are developed, I also want to shed a tear for the era of modding with 15-year-olds with $10 walmart microphones trying to be 40-year-old drill instructors and quiet-yelling the lines so they don't disturb anyone in the house and cause someone to investigate what they're up to. I doubt we'll ever get that real "homebrewed" feeling again (unless something is specifically made to harken back to that style, versus something earnestly amateur and "making the best of the little knowledge and zero resources I have"), the same way we'll never get that "pre-2012 TH-cam" feeling again. This new era is undoubtedly beautiful, but I do shed a tear for what has been lost.
@@associatelordgodfrey $5 a month isn't that bad for the entry level version of this system. Kids these days spend that on lootboxes all the time. :P Also it's a website that does this, not something you run on your own computer, so your specs don't matter in this situation. Just wanted to clarify.
This would replace people doing crap impersonations of existing characters. People would still be doing original voices. But that said, not everyone is going to use it, whether they can or not.
Absolutely beautiful. Well done and thank you. B it this makes me wonder: Who else wants to see AI Dagoth voice his manifesto from Vivec’a Sermon 15? I BRING LIGHT.
I like this, sure A.I can be scary and unusual but for now it's harmless. No voice actors are being replaced and no artists are being made obsolete. As much as A.I is advanced you can never remove a human soul. At least that would be the case if it wouldn't be completely wrong in like 6 years
@unoriginal person I dunno, we're already seeing artists put out of work by it. Netflix Japan has been using it to compensate for "labour shortages" and draw the backgrounds of one of their upcoming releases. It really is totally harmless in applications like this, though. Amazing how many things only go wrong once you get profit involved.
@@unoriginalperson72 Like all technologies its a double-edged sword, its great for entertainment but imagine how much fake evidence could be fabricated in Courts with this level of proficiency not only that but every image and recording you hear; even real ones. Can now be scrutinized as fabrications of AI. The ability to tell fact from fiction will grow ever more thin.
@@unoriginalperson72 I think he means this can be used by bad actors for nefarious purposes like fabricationg evidence and using it to manipulate politics. The government has already had this technology for years probably wonder how many things we've seen are completely fake
I would be more scared of AI for worldly concerns if I were an atheist. Art is the ultimate obvious proof of the Human Soul. Even the best AI art still always feels as if some spark is missing; it ALWAYS seems at least a tiny bit uncanny. If you actually want to create Beauty, well anyway in history, true artists were always often underappreciated, or even persecuted. AI is no threat to creativity.
This is fan-fucking-tastic. You made sure all the pronunciations of the strange nouns of the world were said correctly, good cadence on the speach, good emotion. You put a lot of effort into this and I love it.
As soon as i've heard about this tech when it first came out, i immediately knew that it would be HUGE for modding games. Glad to see it finally getting implemented in practice!
The day will come when a team of only a handful of people will be able to create a Morrowind sized experience with the quality of modern AAA games. That will truly be a great day
This is fantastic. Mind-blowing, that we can get more of this memorable voice. Dagoth Ur looks or behaves nothing like he sounds. This is a voice of a noble, conceited man.
Cool see that you added a bit of echo to make the voice more imposing. I used another voice service a few years earlier for a flightsim app i created (Crew comms) , and the one i used sounds robotic and stale in comparison to this. This is a really nice development!
The change in tone when asked about surrendering the tools sealed the deal for me. Good Job. I'll give this the highest praise i think anyone can gove a mod. It sounds Vanilla
I watch this video once a day. The writing is great and I'm glad you brought this scene to life. I like your other videos too. Why did you stop posting them? Hope all is well FurbyZone.
I can hardly believe how good this is. _Relatively speaking_ compared to how abysmal some AI voices can sound, but still. This sounds perfectly acceptable. I desperately hope this inspires someone to spruce up that one Kvatch Rebuilt mod for Oblivion. That was one of my favorite mods, but the voices made it impossible to hold on to. It would also be really cool to see that mod restored before the Skyblivion project is completed.
this kind of technology is used in german Gothic mods for a while now, but it often still sounds robotic. This is next level, it sounds like an actual voice actor
Binge watching a.i. Dagoth Ur vids i forgot that none of this is voiced in Morrowind. I sense a new mod on the horizon. A great feat in such trying times.
As much as I find Dagoth Ur's lines to be funny memes, his voice just sounds like... some guy. Like they realized they forgot to record lines for the final boss and grabbed the guy with a deep voice DM'd their office D&D game.
@@furbyzones3777 He has unused voice files in the data files but never used in-game, maybe grab those and do his whole dialog with that voice, could be pretty cool.
I earlier said I could not take a main character AI voiced seriously but this just works. Maybe its because its a villain monologue. Or maybe its because his voice is meant to sound inhuman. He's a god. How can you kill a god? 🙃
Think of the implications of this. Any game with partial voice acting can now be modded with an AI to have full support. You could probably use this to add voices to games without them. It's kind of surreal
I'm guessing that, within in a year, we're going to have a fully voiced and fully dynamic Large Language Model powered OpenMW. NPC dialog and actions generated in real-time.
I saw people trying to implement chat AI into Bannerlord 2, but this is amazing! I love how people are using Morrowind to try and integrate this tech into an actual rpg
Wait, so exactly how close are we to a totally voiced Morrowind? It's been one of the few things holding me back from a replay. Hell I don't even care if all the characters have the same voice.
RIP Voice Acting. If it sounds this good now, it wont be long until voice actors will be brought in to say like a few lines then be used for an AI voice.
This is pretty amazing. What does it take to script these sounds into the dialogues? I understand that there has to be a fair amount of manual manipulation of stress, tones, and pronunciation to get this effect, so it isn't perfectly automated, but this is a really worthy project to tackle bit by bit for the whole game. Otherwise, if the scripting is relatively easy in-game, it shouldn't be too hard to get together a community effort to produce good quality tuned voice lines for all dialogue. I've been wanting to get my fiance into this game, but the intense amount of reading has been off-putting to me, especially as English isn't her native language (she can read it just fine, but with the amount of text in this game, I can forsee her getting a headache).
There are only two settings, and only one of them matters; There is a slider where you decide on more spirited(but prone to instabilities) speech or more stable(but more monotone) speech. The more samples you provide to train the model the more spirited you can let it be without errors. All there is to it is to find the sweet spot for that particular voice, input your text copy, and let it run. It may surprise you just how easy it is now, I suggest you try it out since your first month is free at the $5/month subscription (30,000 words and up to 10 voice profiles).
@@Sk4llik that sounds wonderful, and I probably will mess with it, but the part I'm worried about is how to actually script them into the in-game dialogues for Morrowind. I fear it would have to be done bit by bit for each dialogue option. Any insight on that?
@@michaelrusso9809 Sorry, I haven't opened the Construction Set for Morrowind in probably over 20 years lol. I'd reach out to the folks on the Morrowind Nexus that are starting up projects like this, you can probably find people such as OP there that are already doing this and you could ask how you can help. I'd imagine the bottleneck for the modders is just the monthly character budget, so offering to use your 30,000 for the cause would be a huge help in that case.
I've fixed the part around 4:40 where Dagoth Ur says "Invented" rather than "Invested" in the latest version of the mod. I think the uesp page has the wrong dialogue for some reason? I probably should've extracted the dialogue myself.
"FINE! I'LL DO IT MYSELF" moment
Aaah I was wondering about that. Almost made it seem as if someone was just doing an impression reading it and misspoke
All the mistakes I've found:
2:59
"touch each soul in Vvardenfell"
"touch each soul on Vvardenfell"
3:30
"is to enter even-more-deeply"
"is to enter ever-more-deeply"
4:13
"Enlightenment cannot grow back without the risk"
"Enlightenment cannot grow without the risk"
4:40
"Kagrenac's lore was invented in his tools"
"Kagrenac's lore was invested in his tools"
How do I find his voice on elevenlabs? Do I add it somehow?
4:13 He says "Enlightenment cannot grow *back* without the risk of upsetting the traitor-bound and complacent herd."
A new era in modding is upon us.
A couple of months and we will have the full game with voiced dialogue. For sure
EDIT: AS 05/02/2023
project "Kezyma's Voices" aim to do exactly what I've said. Their currently at 1.2% Npc dialogues completed. Literally a couple of months
@@21pope It woundn't be VOICED though, it would be generated, printed, fake.
@@D0P3NA5TY So what? It's still functionally voiced, and actually sounds good.
Some would say... among us
@@LordVader1094 it would certainly serve a lot of purposes but it would not fit in certain characters to have such an inexpressive and neutral tone. This is an amazing new feature but generated dialogue still has its limits
The terrifying part is:
A) The sentence structure sounds natural to hear. There isn't weird pausing, chopping, etc. You can hear the nostalgia when he says "Brothers in arms..."
B) You can hear the "Voice" taking in breaths in between lines.
Yeah, it's really fantastic AI. The company that produces ElevenLabs the AI software to make this work is developing a full audio workshop that is going to let you directly control the speech even further and edit the voice profile to make each character somewhat unique. I hope someone with the ambition and know-how for modding and audio production takes the time to fully voice Morrowind.
Truly magnificent.
I wish to see where this tech goes, hopefully more awesome things!
he also reads some anger into his response when challenged on his motivations and when discussing war. It really adds to the overall strength of the voice. Incredible stuff
@@hermeticinstrumentalist6804 Magnificent and kinda freaky!
The beautiful thing
Dagoth Ur comes across even more sympathetic and well spoken when voiced.
He was your friend, to anyone else he could sound like a demon, to you, even after thousands of years, even in a different body, he is still your friend, that all you can hear.
Calling the imperials mongrols comes off as kinda racist.
Dagoth Ur, like 5 times: "to you goes the first blow"
also Dagoth Ur: *hits you first*
The first blow was nerevar breaking his heart 😢
@@Shovelchicken And everyone knows the first cut is the deepest DX
I always wondered is he lying or is it a bug?
@@kakkakokkkd6230 they probably couldn't code it right and just rolled with it, it's early game dev days so you had a lot of stuff that just remained unpolished. Kinda has a charm to it.
@@zynosgd9982 I really believe they could have coded it right. There are hundreds of npcs who won't attack you until you attack them. I am quite sure that Dagoth Ur only in that moment really does believe that you are Nerevar, you have come to kill him, and that there is a real possibility of his defeat. And of course out of fear he attempts to get the drop on you and kill you.
So I checked out Elevenlabs thinking it would be another awkward, stuttery AI voice and WOW. It sounds so freakishly natural. If you just heard it randomly, you would never know it was AI. Easily the best AI voice I've ever heard.
Yeah, it's crazy that you can train it to do other voices like this one as well. I was already impressed enough with the voices they provided
@@vadimdude its just the configuration. th-cam.com/video/Vxb-4G7rYl0/w-d-xo.html
this one has emotions in the tone
@@meo8258 God damn
@@vadimdude It actually doesn't, I've seen examples where Dagoth Ur does code-switching lmao. Misinterpretation on tone and delivery is really the kind of problem any voice acting session has, and that's largely been solved as far as a sound engineer is concerned - just do more takes and splice up the best ones
Yeah same. When I first heard this AI someone sent me a video on discord of Caesar from Fallout New Vegas talking about how he brought civilization to Detroit. I totally thought it was in the game and I just never heard it before up until he said the n-word
WE'RE DOING IT!?!?!
FULLY VOICED MORROWIND GUYS WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING IT
Yeaaah! If this happens I'll release better bodies and better faces and better movements to the masses hehehe.
guh, please no.
@@CoralCopperHead why no?
@@soft-and-wet9788 gatekeeping oldhead losers not wanting their precious nostalgia touched lol
@@CoralCopperHead
The option is always there to play without.
this is really amazing. i didn't know such a good voice ai was available yet. sounds so real like wow all the inflections are perfect
It came out like a week ago and will probably be ruined by the devs that made it like every other AI soon enough
@@ililillillillilil stable diffusion doesn't seem like it can ever be bad, really wish there was a way to have local unmoderated chatgpt but I bet those piles are like a petabyte
@@ililillillillilil In what way?
@@DagothsCollection If they offered it I'd hit Amazon for hard drives and buy them out ASAP, local unmoderated chatgpt sounds super interesting to play around with
@@johnmartinez7440 By putting up a "bias warning" lmao
“If you are my enemy, I cannot trust you. Even you are not my enemy, I cannot let you live.” Voiced or not, that breaks my heart.
This really drives home how much of an articulate, smart gentleman Dagoth Ur was. Of all the antagonists and villains in media, he's the one I would really consider joining.
I'd also throw in Emet-Selch from final fantasy 14. He makes a very good case for why he believes his methods are right despite the destruction they have created and how you could serve to gain from them too.
He had the advantage of being voiced from the get-go though!
Dagoth makes a good case but I likely wouldn't join him. Kerghan from Arcanum on the other hand. That, for me, remains the single most convincing villain justification for destroying the entire world I've yet seen. "The afterlife is peace and serenity, the world of the living is suffering and death and as long as the possibility exists to bring the dead back to life or to control their souls, the dead can have no justice. No peace." Makes it even better when you realize the magics that can control the souls of the dead or bring them back to life were invented by him.
I've seen you on a couple dagoth ur video comments lol
But I wanted to say cute profile picture ^^ I don't use my sona on my youtube account
General Zod
His ambitions seem reasonable to me.
Between these AI voices and Nvidia AI upscaling this old masterpiece could be remade into a truly modern game for a whole new generation.
@@jmw1500 and it would actually be good, instead of all these hit and miss remakes and remasters we get these days
Not just a new generation, but many. The tools we have now will pave a path to preserving Morrowind for future generations to come!
Nah you can't upscale polygons to look better even with raytracing, because it's still flat polygons. You still gotta rewrite the game, AI can only do so much with limited meta data.
@@dra6o0n Game looks great anyway. It's from before the era of "realistic graphics" that age terribly. Look at Halo CE and it's remaster, remaster looks horrid while the regular game still looks kino.
Now add some (a lot) animation for the dodges in combat xD
0:40 My god, it even emotes. You can sense the wistfulness to his words.
It's the most impressive "line read" of the bunch, better than what you typically get from actual human performances in Bethesda RPGs.
His dialogue is too good. Amazing!
Just yesterday I was thinking about somebody making such a mod. Great job!! I always wanted more voice lines from him.
It's weird to me now to hear Dagoth saying his normal dialogue instead of talking about League of Legends.
Some people are complaining that it doesn't sound right, but to me, it's almost perfect specially when you consider how little source you had to train the A.I, the inflection and intonation is eerily realistic, had you told people you asked the original voice actor to voice these lines, 99,9% of people would believe it and the 0,1% are just skeptical at everything.
I worry for the future of voice acting and employment in general. We are on the verge of a massive revolution and we need to seriously start considering the future role of AI in our society.
I do agree that AI needs to be kept under control and be considered more for the sake of human society, and I do agree the voice is very impressive.
However, I think Dagoth Ur already had a very strange, emotionally stagnant voice. Not that he couldn't be angered (or scared) and have emotion in his voice, but the way in which he speaks is that of someone clearly not normal or in the right mind. So the AI benefits from that. I'm honestly incredibly impressed but I can detect places where it feels stunted and could be much better.
AI can generate art and it can get close, and in rare cases it can be almost spot on. But it's always "almost". I think Voice Actors, valued for their ability to give a good take in few tries, voice control, etc, at the end of the day it comes down to how they can act. Acting is an incredibly hard thing to even explain to someone, let alone teach an AI. You can use numbers and sliders and feed it more and more information on how to get "close" but I'm not convinced you can ever really take it far enough to replace the human experience and ability for the human to feel genuine emotion and convey a role in your own unique way.
Anyway, I don't want to start an argument. Feel free to reply and by the way your milk is delicious.
@@ParappatheRapper And fun, voice acting is one of the most fun things I have ever done. I will say, I feel like my dream career won't be taken away from me and from many young voice actors who are trying to make it into the industry. It's a hard grind and it is not as easy as what people think. Voice acting is acting, it's not easy but the rewards are so satisfying internally when you've given your damndest to an opportunity and you'll only improve more as you move forward in the career.
Also the milk IS amazing.
@@pantslessthefoolio You'll be fine. Hone your craft. There will always be people to appreciate a real voice even if it's not discernible from AI somehow.
I also VA (unprofessionally mind you), and more than anything people have always liked my ability to give them the performance they're looking for and I've brought ideas about how to do the role that an AI might not have the ability to do.
@@ParappatheRapper There isn’t enough evidence of its allowed proficiency yet to convince you? I myself am more than convinced and I didn’t even know about Eleven Labs until about 30 minutes ago….Give a logical thought experiment on the juxtaposition of evolution and technological advancement, consider God in the equation and stay confused or become convinced. A.I will either lift up humanity through technological symbiosis or utterly destroy it due to the sin of human error.
A world where I could create stories, not limited to mere words and the attention span of a modern audience. I could have created fully voiced audio books with this. I could lend image to my words with the power of AI, but I am sick, and will be dead before I can even hope to use such tools. I don't fear for voice actors. Or artists. Or any guild. This power liberates the individual artist to create freely. So many new and interesting works, unburdened by the shackles of paying teams and studios; bowing to corporate interest. But I will be dead. Even if this killed every talent on the planet, every human even, I can't feel pity. None was spared for me.
I always loved how Ur comes off like he wants to forgive Nerevar and just be buds again. "I considered sharing a beer with you in the heart chamber, but all that drama a thousand years ago made me think twice."
People say that dagoth is nothing but a madman but reading his dialogue says otherwise
he is only as evil and mad as the tribunal are good and wise
I don’t know, spreading “the divine” through “blight winds” still says “crazy” to me, but I will admit that he is rather eloquent for a madman.
@@iaminterface0101 so hes not evil and mad then?
@@Willzb-xk4ew the tribunal are deeply flawed and selfish people, though have good intentions, or least had. Vivec used the heart to brook an armistice with the empire, but it isn't too far of a stretch for me to think he'd use it more forcefully to keep Morrowind independent. Sotha Sil slowly went mad from Lorkhan's insights and went retreated into his clockwork hermetic world, and Amalexia - well, we all know what happened there in Mournhold. I do not balance the scales of the two parties, nor do I set one side fully weighted either. Sera, you can judge for yourself.
@@iaminterface0101 thing is the tribunal betrayed the nerevarine so they arent just flawed and selfish, they're down right evil
Game modding, fanfiction, and the entire indy scene just underwent a massive evolution in terms of what is possible now with voiceovers, text-to-speech scripts, radio dramas, and other similar works. They can try and clamp down on it for the sake of 'copyright,' but Hollywood and the music industry hasn't been able to stop people from downloading music, shows, and movies for decades now. They'll never be able to stop this, when it only needs a few quality samples to work. This is a new era.
The real problem with this, morally, is not the copyright -- but rather how it puts a *lot* of people out of work. Our society is not yet built to handle that.
@@Marx_D._Soul No one, not even a group of people. was ever going to be hired to voice the entirety of Morrowind.
@@Marx_D._Soul The people getting "put out of work" are the exact same people who were making fun of truckers and coal miners two years ago saying they were going to lose their jobs to robots and that they should learn to code. I have zero sympathy. If a robot can draw better than you, if you have nothing to offer, not even the ability to train unique bots in your style or voice, then go learn to drive a truck or mine coal.
@@LordRaine Please, by all means, show me how the majority of voice actors spoke out against truckers and coal miners circa February 2021.
@@LordRaine think that might be a bit of an over-generalisation?
Dagothwave is finally going to get fresh again!
The strain in his voice when he says "Brothers in arms" is really good
scary good
This would help Skywind/Skyblivion release faster since they were having trouble finding voice actors for all the dialogue and weren't willing to use AI for years cuz it was too rudimentary. Seems like this would be perfect just for general questing.
They dont want to use ai cuz it is unethical to the og voice actors
@@azyjmexcuseokstop924 That's silly though, most of the OG voice actors would never commit to a fanmade project anyway. Unless you're speaking about the voice actors volunteering to help both mods, which they'd probably be glad to not have to do 10 different roles for since they're not being paid for their work.
@@semperk1482 volunteers agreeing to make a voicebank to generate lines seems like the way to go. Particularly useful to generate voicelines for repeated lines like rumors and topics.
It could, for sure, but I doubt they will, or can, use AI. The reason why Skyblivion and that Fallout 4 Capital Wasteland mod have to make all new recordings despite Oblivion and Fallout 3 already being fully voice acted is because they cannot use the OG voice actors without Bethesda lawyers shutting down their project. Using an A.I. to skirt around that probably isn't worth the legal heat to them.
@@Sk4llik They don't have to AI clone the OG voice actors, it could also be clones from any other volunteer or generic voices from Elven Labs. And it would expedite the process tenfold if volunteers created test samples mimicking the OG voice actors with their own voices to easily record lines. One paragraph of dialogue can take the typical voice actor depending on their proficiency from 10 minutes to an hour to complete perfectly. Now imagine the use of AI to streamline that process into just a few seconds. They are losing valuable time that could be spent on other aspects of the mod by not incorporating AI voice actors for at-least generic NPCs outside of the main story characters.
God damn now imagine a mod with full voice acting and upscaled models/textures for Morrowind. That's as close to a remaster as we could potentially get. I'm salivating at the mere thought. And how many existing mods for say Skyrim can finally get actual dialogue instead of spliced voicelines which barely make sense? Truly the future is bright for the modding scene
Have you heard of Skywind? It's a fan-made Morrowind remake using the Skyrim engine. It's as you've described: they're remodeling and re texturing every game asset, and are aiming for full voice acting. They've mainly struggled with sourcing professional-quality voice actors (especially for classic Dunmer accents), so these AI voice lines might well be a blessing them.
I'm against the voicing. Don't be copying the dudes/ladies voices just because none of y'all can shell out to actually do it.
@@timbred8532 I have heard of it, but is it out/close to completion yet? Because I've heard of it like half a decade ago and it seemed nowhere close to release as I followed it. I commend the guys who work on it but I'm really concerned that this is just too ambitious and might never see the light of day
@@Assault_Butter_Knife Probably still a few years away, but the end's in site. Their sister project, Skyblivion (the equivelent remake of Oblivion) recently got a release date: 2025 at the latest. Skywind could be soon after, given a fair chunk of the Skyblivion devs might well migrate over.
@@MrStone125 Shifts occur in industries all the time. Just look at how different the most relevant jobs are now when compared to those 100 years ago.
Wow... Just wow! Thank you for uploading this mod to Nexus!
It sounds so REAL. It even pronounced Akulakhan correctly! And he sounded sad, angry, and even took breaths after long sentences. It's almost scary how real this sounds.
ehh. Anything good here is simply an echo of the strengths of the original voice actor. He's a god amongst mortals talking to the reincarnation of his long lost friend, his long lost brother in peace and war. And he sounds like he's reading off a grocery list to his wife.
@@Mr_Spaghetti dont try to downplay how impressive ai is
@@daroth7127 I’m sure I’ll be properly impressed whenever AI actually comes around. But we’re not there yet, and likely won’t be in the near future
Okay, now do this but use Fargoth's voice.
Fargoth: I will be FAMOUS!
This is genuinely phenomenal
The voice fits perfectly and it is amazing for what AI can do and sound like !
I'm left with a big smile on my face after watching this and hearing Dagoth Ur's full dialogue !
This is a good thing that will also be used for a huge amount of evil deeds
Facts. The almost-unanimous excitement for this tech is unnerving
I work at a studio making narrative-driven games and I just want to say thank you for sharing this! It gave me and my team ideas on how to iterate on VO faster using AI
The future of voice acting:
"Say something to mic"
"H-h-hello?"
"Perfect"
And the AI handles the rest.
It's whatever
In the future we will all be wires and chips connected to a global mesh with no bodies.
@Garrett Chandler
That is just transhumanist fantasy. It wouldn't be "us" either, but a computer program which just does its best to fool everybody that it is us.
@@garrettchandler1948 omnissiah approves
@sgfhk321 Big companies will actually have an incentive to hire actors rather than rely on AI since big name actors bring in viewers
This is actually revolutionary holy shit
Good work! Just needs reverb. Very easy to do with Audacity.
Wow, this is really incredible. As far as I can tell, Dagoth Ur has ~2 minutes of actual voiced dialogue to train off of, a lot of which is repetitive.
The read at 4:00 is AMAZING. He's so insulted. How does it manage the context so well?
he sounded angry didn't he...
using these programs, it's adaptive to how you structure your sentences. the AI tries to simulate connotation based on the grammer and capitalization, so you can create moments like these where it feels like the voice actor was re-employed. truly amazing
I’ve noticed that for voices with more samples to draw from it usually sounds worse than ones with less, like dagoth and duke nukem sound great but like a politician sounds like Microsoft Sam
2:40 God this slaps so hard. The music was just perfect timing.
The opportunities this opens up for modders is unreal.
I just want to say that although quality AI Voice Work like this is definitely going to change how mods are developed, I also want to shed a tear for the era of modding with 15-year-olds with $10 walmart microphones trying to be 40-year-old drill instructors and quiet-yelling the lines so they don't disturb anyone in the house and cause someone to investigate what they're up to.
I doubt we'll ever get that real "homebrewed" feeling again (unless something is specifically made to harken back to that style, versus something earnestly amateur and "making the best of the little knowledge and zero resources I have"), the same way we'll never get that "pre-2012 TH-cam" feeling again.
This new era is undoubtedly beautiful, but I do shed a tear for what has been lost.
you'll still get that because it will cost money to use these tools lmao, and it can't be done on most people's computers.
@@associatelordgodfrey $5 a month isn't that bad for the entry level version of this system. Kids these days spend that on lootboxes all the time. :P
Also it's a website that does this, not something you run on your own computer, so your specs don't matter in this situation.
Just wanted to clarify.
I appreciate that era as well ,though looking back at Fallout 3 mods I will say that I'm ready for the future lol.
Frankly, I will not shed a tear for them. The pain of their voices still bothers me today.
This would replace people doing crap impersonations of existing characters. People would still be doing original voices. But that said, not everyone is going to use it, whether they can or not.
Absolutely beautiful. Well done and thank you. B it this makes me wonder: Who else wants to see AI Dagoth voice his manifesto from Vivec’a Sermon 15?
I BRING LIGHT.
Ive actually done that, without changing formatting at all and it works surprisingly well.
@@viscera_atrocity Damn. You have it upload anywhere?
@@vandeheyeric oh yeah, just uploaded it to my channel. H9786Qg5aHk is the video ID.
This AI is just too accurate and scary at the same time.
I like this, sure A.I can be scary and unusual but for now it's harmless. No voice actors are being replaced and no artists are being made obsolete. As much as A.I is advanced you can never remove a human soul. At least that would be the case if it wouldn't be completely wrong in like 6 years
@unoriginal person I dunno, we're already seeing artists put out of work by it. Netflix Japan has been using it to compensate for "labour shortages" and draw the backgrounds of one of their upcoming releases.
It really is totally harmless in applications like this, though. Amazing how many things only go wrong once you get profit involved.
@@unoriginalperson72 Like all technologies its a double-edged sword, its great for entertainment but imagine how much fake evidence could be fabricated in Courts with this level of proficiency not only that but every image and recording you hear; even real ones. Can now be scrutinized as fabrications of AI. The ability to tell fact from fiction will grow ever more thin.
@@unoriginalperson72 I think he means this can be used by bad actors for nefarious purposes like fabricationg evidence and using it to manipulate politics. The government has already had this technology for years probably wonder how many things we've seen are completely fake
I would be more scared of AI for worldly concerns if I were an atheist. Art is the ultimate obvious proof of the Human Soul. Even the best AI art still always feels as if some spark is missing; it ALWAYS seems at least a tiny bit uncanny. If you actually want to create Beauty, well anyway in history, true artists were always often underappreciated, or even persecuted. AI is no threat to creativity.
It's awesome, hope one day morrowind have a fully voiced game
This is fan-fucking-tastic. You made sure all the pronunciations of the strange nouns of the world were said correctly, good cadence on the speach, good emotion. You put a lot of effort into this and I love it.
I added some custom voices for a the female wood elf and attached them to a personal librarian in a house mod. Makes NPCs really stand out
As soon as i've heard about this tech when it first came out, i immediately knew that it would be HUGE for modding games. Glad to see it finally getting implemented in practice!
The day will come when a team of only a handful of people will be able to create a Morrowind sized experience with the quality of modern AAA games. That will truly be a great day
the voice even has plosives, pops and voice articulation.
Right now Todd is thinking how he can update Morrowind in order to break this mod.
This is fantastic. Mind-blowing, that we can get more of this memorable voice. Dagoth Ur looks or behaves nothing like he sounds. This is a voice of a noble, conceited man.
Hearing this fully voiced is like a childhood fantasy come true.
I was just thinking about this the other day while watching dagoth ur ai voice memes. This is fucking awesome.
Hes so polite. I miss villains like this.
only highlights how out of touch with reality he is
hearing the music as he talks that reminds me of earlier RPGs with talking, real talking. This is very good.
Man. If you combine this with the 6th house Morrowind mod… it’d be perfect
Holy hell this is amazing!! Quest adventure mods now possible !!
If the rest of the npc voices get A.I-ised we could have all dialogue be voiced or even restoring the oblivion original Dunmer voice.
YES! YESSS!, seriously it made the Dunmer unique,
Cool see that you added a bit of echo to make the voice more imposing. I used another voice service a few years earlier for a flightsim app i created (Crew comms) , and the one i used sounds robotic and stale in comparison to this. This is a really nice development!
This is really cool! Would love to see the whole game fully voiced like this
The change in tone when asked about surrendering the tools sealed the deal for me. Good Job. I'll give this the highest praise i think anyone can gove a mod. It sounds Vanilla
I watch this video once a day. The writing is great and I'm glad you brought this scene to life. I like your other videos too. Why did you stop posting them? Hope all is well FurbyZone.
This mod implemented to every character could encourage the entire dyslexic community to play this game
I can hardly believe how good this is. _Relatively speaking_ compared to how abysmal some AI voices can sound, but still. This sounds perfectly acceptable.
I desperately hope this inspires someone to spruce up that one Kvatch Rebuilt mod for Oblivion. That was one of my favorite mods, but the voices made it impossible to hold on to. It would also be really cool to see that mod restored before the Skyblivion project is completed.
this kind of technology is used in german Gothic mods for a while now, but it often still sounds robotic. This is next level, it sounds like an actual voice actor
Binge watching a.i. Dagoth Ur vids i forgot that none of this is voiced in Morrowind. I sense a new mod on the horizon. A great feat in such trying times.
My god this... This is so amazing and well done. Well freaking done!
As much as I find Dagoth Ur's lines to be funny memes, his voice just sounds like... some guy. Like they realized they forgot to record lines for the final boss and grabbed the guy with a deep voice DM'd their office D&D game.
This, THIS is actually what i've been waiting for
Fantastic work. This sounds amazing.
A NEW ERA IS APON US MY FRIENDS BLESSINGS OF THE HEART BE APON YOU
What... this is using AI? This is ridiculously good!
Absolutely amazing work!
Now someone needs to mod in the "special dialogue" if the Player Character is an Argonian
This is amazing! are you planning on doing other conversation's? or no? either way Thank you and keep up the excellent work!
I was considering doing Vivec with his ESO voice, but I need to figure out the exact audio effects used on his voice there so I can replicate it.
@@furbyzones3777 He has unused voice files in the data files but never used in-game, maybe grab those and do his whole dialog with that voice, could be pretty cool.
@@furbyzones3777 Make life easier for yourself. Do Vivec with the voice of JC Denton.
@@afivey He never asked for that
This is truly amazing. Such an iconic voice
This is one of the coolest applications of AI I've seen yet. This is awesome.
Ran some dialog from No Man's Sky in that AI and it's crazy how well it works
If I were a voice actor, I would be very....very afraid right now.
I earlier said I could not take a main character AI voiced seriously but this just works. Maybe its because its a villain monologue. Or maybe its because his voice is meant to sound inhuman.
He's a god. How can you kill a god? 🙃
Think of the implications of this. Any game with partial voice acting can now be modded with an AI to have full support. You could probably use this to add voices to games without them. It's kind of surreal
Well uh… I think this is the beginning of the end for all artistic pursuits. Guess it was fun while it lasted.
I'm guessing that, within in a year, we're going to have a fully voiced and fully dynamic Large Language Model powered OpenMW. NPC dialog and actions generated in real-time.
Gigga based. I used the same AI for a bit of my audio drama. Looking forward to see this for other Morrowind Characters.
I saw people trying to implement chat AI into Bannerlord 2, but this is amazing!
I love how people are using Morrowind to try and integrate this tech into an actual rpg
Imagine in the future when AI in video games becomes so advanced that you can have infinite open ended conversations with NPCs throughout the world.
I always felt Dagoth Ur's voice sounded a little like a US Army General. He *especially* sounds like that with this generated-voice.
I would like "I offer you no deals" to be more emphasized like the mod that used another voice actor. "I offer you NO DEALS"
This is so nice it gives him a Skyrim feel talkin such its really cool to hear him out such a noble an stern person
Damn. I want a full voiced Morrowind
The potential for this is insane, some games will really benefit from it like Planescape Torment.
The inflection is what has me tripping. It doesn't miss a beat.
Wow, just wow, this is incredible, the future is going to be insane
the hardest enemy i ever faced in Morrowind was Dyslexia. Mods like this will make a replay that much more enjoyable
Git gud
Just one thing, he says invented when he should say invested when you ask about the dwemer, otherwise, this is amazing.
Oh wow. I bet we're going to see games fully voiced by AI in the future.
Ok, I'm convinced now, AI is the future and it's arriving sooner than expected.
A new dawn has emerged on mods and videos
I hope there will be a mod project which uses AI to dub the whole morrowind dialogues. That would be amazing
Wait, so exactly how close are we to a totally voiced Morrowind? It's been one of the few things holding me back from a replay. Hell I don't even care if all the characters have the same voice.
RIP Voice Acting.
If it sounds this good now, it wont be long until voice actors will be brought in to say like a few lines then be used for an AI voice.
And even since the Day,TH-cam suggested me this video, I fell down the rabbit hole of Dagoth Ur voice skits
This is pretty amazing. What does it take to script these sounds into the dialogues? I understand that there has to be a fair amount of manual manipulation of stress, tones, and pronunciation to get this effect, so it isn't perfectly automated, but this is a really worthy project to tackle bit by bit for the whole game. Otherwise, if the scripting is relatively easy in-game, it shouldn't be too hard to get together a community effort to produce good quality tuned voice lines for all dialogue.
I've been wanting to get my fiance into this game, but the intense amount of reading has been off-putting to me, especially as English isn't her native language (she can read it just fine, but with the amount of text in this game, I can forsee her getting a headache).
There are only two settings, and only one of them matters; There is a slider where you decide on more spirited(but prone to instabilities) speech or more stable(but more monotone) speech. The more samples you provide to train the model the more spirited you can let it be without errors. All there is to it is to find the sweet spot for that particular voice, input your text copy, and let it run. It may surprise you just how easy it is now, I suggest you try it out since your first month is free at the $5/month subscription (30,000 words and up to 10 voice profiles).
@@Sk4llik that sounds wonderful, and I probably will mess with it, but the part I'm worried about is how to actually script them into the in-game dialogues for Morrowind. I fear it would have to be done bit by bit for each dialogue option. Any insight on that?
@@michaelrusso9809 Sorry, I haven't opened the Construction Set for Morrowind in probably over 20 years lol. I'd reach out to the folks on the Morrowind Nexus that are starting up projects like this, you can probably find people such as OP there that are already doing this and you could ask how you can help. I'd imagine the bottleneck for the modders is just the monthly character budget, so offering to use your 30,000 for the cause would be a huge help in that case.
Would love to hear/see Yagrum Bagarn with a fitting voice for his insanely cool dialogue.