If an irradiated wasteland filled with murderous monsters isn't bad enough on its own, now you can add AI Joe Rogan to it
If you've ever thought to yourself that what the gently crackling quiet of Fallout: New Vegas really needs is the endless nattering of a credulous media personality, then I might have just the mod for you: The Joe Rogan Experience(opens in new tab), in which the bafflingly popular presenter gives voice to eight sponsor messages and nine interviews with various high-profile characters.
Of course, it's not actually Joe Rogan's voice: The mod uses AI-powered voice synthesis to recreate Rogan in the game. The big giveaway is that it doesn't really sound like him, particularly during the interview with Caesar in the first part of the trailer. Rogan has a distinctive voice, which I've grown passingly familiar with through UFC broadcasts and the occasional brief clip from his podcast that's passed around on social media, and the voice in the trailer is far enough off the mark that it just doesn't click for me.
(What I do find amusingly on the nose is the way mod-Rogan insists on talking about the Burned Man as if he's real, repeatedly contradicting Caesar's statement that the Burned Man is just a myth.)
The voice sounds closer to the real thing in the second segment, during a promo for the Crimson Caravan. I still can't say for sure that I'd guess it as a Joe Rogan impersonation unprompted, but it's close enough to be passable—and, to be fair, my hearing is not what it once was.
The mod page doesn't say exactly how Rogan's voice is recreated, but mod maker IIncidious explained in an email that they used «AI speech software» ElevenLabs(opens in new tab) to create all the clips in the mod.
«In terms of training the voice, the process with ElevenLabs is relatively simple,» IIncidious said. «The AI is amazing in the aspect that it
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