It's Going To Be Harder To Add Quests Naturally, since every NPC has 100% voiced dialog Options

[RobRendell]

A lot of mods that added quests to Morrowind would add additional dialog options to existing NPCs in the game, providing hooks into the new content.

It just struck me: with every line of dialog voiced by voice-actors, we're going to find it hard to put any additional works into existing NPCs' mouths. It'll be a bit jarring if your extra dialog is not voiced, but not as jarring as it'll be when the NPC's voice changes when they say your lines...

Is there any software out there that allows you to readily synthesise new speech for a given voice, if you can feed it enough samples of the voice you want mimiced?

[RobRendell]

Actually, you don't have to even go that far afield to find NPCs with mixed voices. If you come in to the Imperial City Merchant District from outside (likely, given where you emerge above ground), one of the first NPCs you meet is an old woman beggar. When asking you fora coin or saying farewell, she has a querrelous old woman's voice, but if you get her talking about rumours or try persuading her, her voice suddenly gets much younger.

Oh well, it's unfortunate, but not a game wrecker. I'd still have preferred it if they could have done speech synthesis with each NPC having a bunch of parameters to determine their tone of voice etc., but I have very little idea how difficult that would have been.

This post has been edited by RobRendell: Mar 27 2006, 06:20 AM