Fable Doesn’t Use Arc Raiders-Style Text-To-Speech AI For Its 1,000+ Voiced NPCs

The Fable reboot has more than 1,000 NPCs that players can interact with . Given this scale, and the fact that they all speak, people are naturally wondering how developer Playground was able to pull this off, and if some kind of artificial intelligence system was used. During a recent group Q&A attended by GameSpot at Summer Game Fest, Playground confirmed that there is "no generation involved in it" after being asked if the studio used an Arc Raiders-style text-to-speech AI system. "We've got a really fantastic cast of actors who have come in and recorded tons and tons of dialogue, which is what you've heard today voicing our NPCs," the developer said. "All of our NPCs are fully voiced. We cast around 100 actors to voice our Living Population alone," the developer explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzwz7KZNBzY&feature=youtu.be The text-to-speech system in Arc Raiders was controversial because developer Embark used AI to simulate all manner of different things that the in-game characters could say. After the game became a huge hit, Embark brought the actors back to record more lines, and now Arc Raiders has more human-voiced lines than it did at launch . The Fable reboot has a so-called "Living Population" of NPCs that players can interact with on their journey through Albion. "As you play the game, you get to know the names of the individual NPCs. You get to know what they like, what they’re looking for in a partner, where they live, where they work, all that kind of cool stuff. It’s an extra dimension to traditional NPCs," game director Ralph Fulton said in Janua