Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Has A Character That's Voiced By A Text-To-Speech Program
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The issue should be fixed by late January or early February.
By Luis Joshua Gutierrez on
Ubisoft's Metroidvania platformer Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown currently has a character that's being voiced by a text-to-speech (TTS). And no one seems to know why.
Thanks to an IGN report, we know that an in-game character named Kalux was voiced using TTS, a popular program amongst steamers. In a video posted by IGN, you can hear the voice for yourself whenever the main character travels anywhere on the map.
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When Side UK, the production studio, was asked about who's responsible for the usage of the TTS voicing a character, the studio had this to say:
«SIDE London provides casting, production management, voice direction, voice recording, and post-production in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, for which we work with a talented cast of professional actors. As a production company, we did not have visibility of any other voice design plans, TTS or otherwise, Ubisoft had for the game.»
The IGN report goes on to explain that after Side UK denied approving using TTS to voice a character, Ubisoft committed to the matter and stated:
«During the development process of a game, some teams use multiple placeholder assets, including text-to-speech voiceover, until final dubbing is delivered. The English version of these 8
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