What an incredibly godawful, dumbass idea.

Look, I'm going to skip over issues of voice actors, quality, etc, and go directly to:

Your voice doesn't sound to you like it sounds to other people. Almost everyone hates playback of their voice. This is a great way to get people to haaaaaate playing your game.

Setting the shittiness aside, once again a horseshit patent award. This is not a novel or innovative idea. It's a stupid fucking limitation on others if entertained.

We already fucking hate hearing our own voices on recordings or in Discord with feedback. Why does anybody think this is a good idea?

Not to dismiss people who are fine listening to their own voice but this feels like mega narcissistic at the very least and just plain weird to everybody else.

One, FUCK software patents.

Two, this is what AI means for voice acting: there won't be any voice acting. Nobody has to get cloned. There doesn't need to be an original performance to modify. We have the technology for artists to make up how a character sounds, the same way artists can make up how a character looks. Like how nobody plays a cartoon. There's still live-action, and mocap, and there will still be people's real voices behind imaginary faces. But that is now optional.

Three, nobody wants to hear their own voice. Morgan Freeman probably thinks he sounds weird and nasal onscreen.

That could be quite cool if done well.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The patent itself spends a considerable amount of time documenting the technical features of how input data is processed, but I'll be focusing on the game design implications here since they're more interesting.

Inworld Origins hinges around the player roleplaying as a detective and asking AI NPC characters questions, with answers generated on-the-spot based on that input.

It's so possible that recently, official English anime voice actors were openly speculating that they had been dubbed over with AI by Namco Bandai in the latest Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm game.

Most video game playable characters already function primarily as self-inserts from a narrative perspective, but making that connection literal seems like a quick way to break immersion.

Considering the sheer scope of Electronic Arts and the funding available to them, I think they should just stick to hiring actual people for video game voiceover, especially for plot-critical characters.

Adopting technology like this seems like a pretty sharp step backward from an industry that's been selling video games to us with face-scanned screen actors for the better part of the past decade.

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