Morrowind Gains New Life Thanks to AI Reading Dialogues
A mod has been created for Morrowind that adds full voice over for the character Dagoth Ur. The whole thing was created using artificial intelligence.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is now more than 20 years old and still has a large group of fans who regularly revisit the title. As a result, new mods for the game are constantly being developed. In recent days, there has been a kind of breakthrough, driven by the boom in the use of artificial intelligence - in this case for imitating voices and reading text.
In Morrowind this boom has led to the creation of the project Fully Voiced Dagoth Ur, which, as the name of the mod suggests, adds full voicing for Dagoth Ur, or the resident "main bad guy." For this purpose, the ElevenAI tool was used. Using the voice samples of Jeff Baker (the actor who originally played the character) available in the game, the author "taught" the artificial intelligence to imitate him and instructed it to read all the dialogues of the leader of the Sixth House.
You can download the mod using the link below.
Fully Voiced Dagoth Ur on Nexus Mods
In turn, in the video below you will see a sample of how the project performs in action. Of course be aware of possible spoilers - the conversation with Dagoth Ur takes place in the finale of the main story line.
As a reminder: Morrowind features an enormous amount of dialogue text, and character voice overs are residual; NPCs only speak in a few situations. Adding all the missing dialogue is therefore an impressive achievement - and one that will unfortunately be difficult to replicate for the other NPCs; many of them do not have enough voice samples for AI to learn.
