As part of its arena battle style, it includes voiceover from two commentators, but these have been developed with AI drawing criticism from voice actors and designers alike.did the voiceovers," said Almström."We use AI with a few exceptions. So all the contestant voices like the barks, both of our commentators are AI text-to-speech.
Now that the beta is available, clips from the game have been shared including the AI voiceovers. Voice actor Gianni Matragrano shared one such clip, criticising the use of AI and highlighting the MTM podcast. I’m both a game developer and voice actor, here’s my take on this. I’d like to again encourage devs to reconsider the use of voice in their games as simply an “asset” in the pipeline of agile development. Ethically and artistically, TTS *does* have its place in development…Gearbox narrative designer Sam Winkler said:"Shipping content with AI VO is bad, flat out.