September>December 2024: Nuclear winter has struck, leaving room for the N5

Nah, the AI voice isn't it. CB has two very loved brand ambassadors, Bostria and Hoopoe, as well as Koni, who is very efficient with community interaction. I feel like these should be done by a real person.

Also, we have way better AI voice generators than what is used in those clips

 

Way to long.
Way to boring.

Is there a Summery anywhere?

 

True. As I mentioned, CB is a company "with human face" and some connection with community. At least as many of us see them, I hope)
And AI voice is a step away of it...

 

While I agree human voices would be ideal, I love the concept of these videos. I hope the AI backlash in the comments does not kill this initiative. I am a strong proponent of don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

 

Saw this comment in YouTube from bostria himself about AI voiceover. (Video about N5 from The Dice Gods channel)

 

Well, he has a point there.

OTOH, as a Haqq and Corregidor player I'm feeling I'm obligated to be as hard as possible on any AI, and make Sybilla cry a river :P

 

I'm PanO, praise our new AI overlords!

I couldn't even tell the voice was AI, but I've always had some trouble with voices. I'll give them this, it's definitely very clear English, almost documentary style.

 

I didn't realised it was AI either.
As far as it's easy to understand I'm OK with it.
Not being native speaker I can struggle with accents sometime.

 

then dont use McMurrough, he is an AI user

 

It's a voice i've been hearing a lot lately on Youtube. One thing nice about it it is that you can use it for multiple languages. I think I liked the one that had the female speaker. It sounded a little more natural.

 

Like @SpectralOwl I too am PanO and support our new AI overlords.

For those that don’t, I refer you to…

 

I never really liked the other english voice that did the english simulated battle report things either, so it's not a big step for me.

But honestly, CB can just send me a script and I'll say whatever they want. :)

 

I see why Bostria uses the AI voice and I understand his use-case. He has a lot to do before N5 drops. This said, what CB uses now is rather dated. There are way better AI generators, with much more life-like voice, and many of them are at extremely affordable costs. To give you an idea, Play.ht has commercial use licenses for $30/month and can produce stuff like this https://voca.ro/12jXh1uvRGyK. Uberduck is, I believe, $10 and is hardly worse than Play.*



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*I'm not in any way, shape or form connected to Play.ht or Uberduck. I'm just using them as an example of commercial use generators. The example is also one run of the model, unedited, since I don't want to use a basic account to generate voice files of copyrighted content.

 

"The guy in the office" was Tom Schadle from the Podcast Mayacast. He was for a while an employee of CB (I think North American Sales manager or something) but I think that had ended when he was doing the voice over work.

 

AI voice is a tool, like everything else, I have no issue been used and the reasoning behind it is logical.

 

I have opted just to google for still images…the videos really do not provide any new info and the AI voices are not good at all…many better out there. If I were new to the hobby, these would not pull me in…CB should take that into consideration imho.

 

In reality there isn’t so much of a summary to be done.

While it’s an enjoyable talk to listen to, there’s just no real information / spoiler. It’s mainly 3 guys talking about infinity.

The only thing worth mentioning is something we already know:

- N5 isn’t going to revolutionise the ruleset. It’s mainly about streamlining some convoluted mechanics.
- Reinforcements are going to be better integrated in the rules and won’t be abandoned

And that’s it…

The rest is people sharing ideas on how CodeOne wasn’t a good way to introduce the game to new players. About metal needing to stay for infantry etc…