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This project started as a personal passion project I made for myself and not to be shared, but when so many requested that I make it live so everyone could use it, I expanded the project into what it is now. After 7 long months, the project is finally live!
All voices were generated and recreated by AI using combinations of licensed voices.
No voice actor was cloned in this project.
All voices used in this project have been used with consent. I make it a point that the base of each voice is the phrase “I give arc the right to use this voice for XIV voices and nothing but XIV voices” , although many were generous to extend to “and future projects”, every base voice can be turned into 8 different voices by changing the pitch, so by using 10 base voices I would have 80 voices, and by mixing those I can have a couple hundred voices. Most of the voices were taken by close friends, family, and discord friends, many of them are not even English. As for the public domain materials, they were gathered from sources like citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov
Please watch the previous video for a more technical explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYUgaJaDF6s
Free free to watch my Twitch VODS to see how XIV fares now. Also you’re welcome to join my streams and hangout!
https://twitch.tv/arcsidian
Links:
Website: https://arcsidian.com
XIVV: https://arcsidian.com/xivv
Discord: https://arcsidian.com/discord
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/arcsidian
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Glad to be lifetime member of your project!
Been following XIV Voices for a while now, and with each update, I'm more amazed by the dedication and innovation behind this project. It's fascinating to see how it evolves and enriches the FFXIV experience. Huge props to everyone involved for their hard work and creativity!
This is amazing! Thank you so much for working on this!
Omg omg omg!
wait up this is actually bonkers! Would it be possible to make a volume slider for the npc voices?
Not sure how the voice actors will like their voices warped and put behind paywalls, it's going to get a lot of hate because of it, so be prepared, they've already come out to dismiss their voices being used in this way, gl though
Dang. Just listening to all this work so far I'm getting chills.
I like how this fills in the gaps to make the new player experience a little nicer (assuming they find this anyway). Its just a shame there is not an easy way to include variations, for example Preach's somewhat notorious version of Tataru.
how do voices handle player names? normally voiced cutscenes just refer to you as "my friend" or just he/her to sidestep saying your name, but text only cutscenes dont have that problem so theyll just say your name most of the time, would the AI try to pronounce it anyway? or does it work the same as a normal cutscene where it sidesteps saying it?
I would love this. My husband has dyslexia and has a hard time at times with the walls of text. I have taken to reading the text outloud to help him or summarizing the information.
this is amazing and i would love to use something like this—but again, be careful using someone else’s work and monetizing it, even if it is AI generated, without getting consent of ALL voice actors, i’m not sure how this would last. i would highly recommend getting funded through patreon or some other means.
I try to go to the website but Malwarebytes says that it detects malware as I attempt to load the web page. :/
Also, a monthly fee? I really love the idea of this and I know it must have taken a ton of work but, like others have said, it does feel strange to put this behind a pay wall. I think it's important that people get compensated for the work they put in, but fan projects like this usually don't have charges attached to them to avoid any complications with the devs by not financially competing with their project. Donation models work a lot better to build good will with the playerbase and may end up making more money in the long run anyway if the project gets enough traction which I believe this project has potential for. I think a lot of people are going to be turned off by the monthly fee though. :/
This sounds like a good way to get attacked by Square Enix
Brother iam so glad that you enabled me to fanboy even more over Emet, Elidibus and Thancreddaddy not gonna lie, this looks awesome and that you worked on it solo is so impressive i hope you go viral!
very great project, but did you realize that for example Cid's voice doesnt match his real ingame voice? ^^ no front, i like it a lot but Raubahns voice needs also an update asap xD
Your effort is not gonna go unnoticed. This is absolutely really amazing and impressive that you went this far to do something like this for us. I really hope the word gets spread around. This is the project that is being worked on and that more people will come to you and offer their helpfor some, this could be the thing that gets people through the great filter of a rail reborn
Have anyone tried the program and how do you feel about it?
I love this.
If you ever find yourself in need of an additional VA, don't hesitate to hit me up. I would love to help however I can.
How far along is this? From the fotage, it seems like it's Arr and HW. Is that right?
this is really cool!
It's a good idea but monetizing ai generated stuff based off of real actors…. man.