Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown will launch next week, but players will encounter a fun bug when playing through the game, . One of the game’s NPCs is voiced by a text-to-speech app, complete with the somewhat robotic tones we’ve come to associate with these services.
It’s not quite Siri or Alexa, but it’s close, and it certainly doesn’t match the game’s Persian-inspired setting. The NPC-in-question is a tree spirit named Kalux, who appears to be voiced by the TTS program. and is commonly used by broadcasters.
It’s not an “AI is coming to do your job” kind of thing, it’s Ubisoft’s fault because every NPC is connected to a voice actor. IGN notes that Kalukh does not have a voice actor in the credits. Besides, Kalux only has a few lines, so assigning an actor to deliver this dialogue wouldn’t be a difficult solution. Ubisoft released a one-day patch, but it won’t fix the Kalux issue. Look for another patch in late January or early February that replaces the bot with a human.
Ubisoft confirmed the error, saying that “the English version of this eight-line text for this character was not implemented correctly,” noting that the game has more than 12,000 lines of dialogue in several languages. Game developers often use TTS services. and artificial intelligence voices to create placeholder dialogue, eventually replacing him with human actors. The company simply forgot to control this character.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown It releases on January 15th for almost every platform, including Nintendo Switch and PC. This is the first franchise fee since the 2010s Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. It’s a Metroidvania style platformer Reviews are mostly positive, with many praising it for delivering a true AAA Metroidvania experience.
However, just because this particular example is wrong doesn’t mean that AI-enhanced TTS services won’t revolutionize the industry. CD Projekt Red recently used AI in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and SAG-AFTRA making it easier for actors to license their voices as digital replicas for use in games.
