Adriel

I’m going to cover this once, because I’d rather spend my time building this thing than debating it. Yes, there are AI voices in my project. They’re placeholders, and I’m not apologizing for them. Placeholder voices are used everywhere in game development. You just don’t know it, because you never hear them in the finished game. I’m one person adding features Halo never had, like squad orders, ambushes where your marines wait for your shot, and calling in dropships. The original game has no lines for any of that. So I perform every line myself and convert it to a voice clone, and the marines sound like themselves in every new moment. It’s the best way to hear what this would sound like if the original actors voiced it. I also have a moonshot idea. With Asha Sharma running Xbox and Xbox Labs exploring new ideas, if this project does well enough, there’s no reason it couldn’t get real talent like Steve Downes (Master Chief), Jen Taylor (Cortana), David Scully (Sgt. Johnson) and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates (Foe Hammer). That’s what we like to call a pipe dream. As for AI hesitancy: a lot of it is just gatekeeping. It shuts out people who were never going to hire anyone in the first place. Nobody is losing work here. I’m not a company cutting actors out of a budget. I’m a guy who loves Halo, building the game I dreamed about as a kid.