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It would be nice to have deeper / more gruff voices for male characters. Especially for half orcs. You would expect an Elder Scrolls Orc voice, but instead you get Harry Potter. Sounds kind of goofy.

I'll have to second that. The 4 male voices give only the illusion of choice; they all sound as if coming from the same person with a different pitch. Neither has distinct personality.

I second this. It was the first thing I thought. My Dragonborn Fighter sounds like he's reading Shakespeare. It just seems wrong. LOL

I agree that the male voices on the whole sound too similar and posh. And I'm English so if they sound very similar to me then I'm sure that's even more so for others who are possibly less attuned to differences in English accents. And we definitely could do with a gruffer, tougher voice.

The female voices to me sound more distinctive and I think I'll be okay with the voices for all my planned female characters. I'm not quite sure why we don't have a similar variation for the males.

I could be wrong, but the female voice while they sound fine...

There is only 1 female voice that would fit an Orc, or a Brutish (grunt grunt) kinda of character. The 3 others, or seem similar in tone.

In old BG2, I remember...(and even in NWN2), you had some sort of difference...

Like Slutry, and Idealist voice....and such.

+ 1 to this.

Definitley, a much wider range is needed for immersion.

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With the female voices, I tend to use voice 2 for my working class heroes from Baldur's Gate such as urchins and others who have perhaps come from the Lower City, voice 4 is to my ears posher and a bit naive-sounding (a sort of Idealist voice, perhaps!), so I tend to use it for some of my good, Upper City type characters. Voice 6 is the one I think best fits my rougher, tougher female characters such as half-orcs, barbarians and some fighters, and voice 8 is somewhere inbetween voices 2 and 4 when it comes to poshness, but also seems to fit evil and neutral characters better than voice 2.

That's just my subjective impression, of course!

Oh, I just mean, back in those games (BG2 and NWN) games, it was...the voices were more defined? You could tell from just listening to that tidbit in the cc?

Also, would it have killed them to separate the male and female voices?

Maybe it is the accent lol Wonder if that makes a difference...

I like it that all the voices are available for all characters, but given that for most characters players are surely more likely to be selecting from just four options, it agree it would make more sense to group them and, say, have the male-sounding voices 1-4 and the female 5-8. Or alternatively if, say, voices 1 & 2 were male and female sounding versions of a similar timbre/accent and same for 3&4 and so on. But as far as I can tell, there's no correspondence between the pairs in that way. For example, voice 3 is (I think) the best of a bad lot for a gruffer male voice, whereas 6 seems to be the closest female equivalent.

Though it's not a big deal for me, given the time spent on this in character creation is miniscule compared to the time actually playing the character. It's just a bit puzzling.

To voice my support I repost my argument from the closed orc voice thread:

Something I'm mentioning all the time concerning character creation. We need something that's more than average human adventurer voices. Orc, dwarves even dragonborn Tav for me always lack immersion when they start talking. Also why is there never a voice for older people. You chose to play a wise old wizard and as soon as he opens his mouth instead of a Gandalf/Saruman styled version you get a Hogwarts student in his last semester.

I'm not sure why they recorded multiple male voice sets that all sound basically the same. Surely for role-playing you'd want a set of exaggerated voices from gruff and dim-witted to posh and prissy.

The voices on offer aren't just unfit for many of the available races, they're also just... boring? So generic that they add nothing to the experience. Honestly in the absence of better options, I'd rather have my character be silent. 90% of the player character dialogue is just repetitive mumbling to themselves anyway.

It feels impossible playing an half-orc or a dwarf, or anything that you'd like to have a deeper more menacing voice. I'm hoping more voices packs will show up, but until then, how about an option to mute the player character? It bothers me to no end to run aroudn with my half orc with a posh brittish accent (yes all voice options rn sounds upp-beat or posh imo). Give me something guttural or let me mute my character voice please.

PS. If I would like to make my own voice pack, is there a way to? .DS.

I'll vote for this as well, my half-orc Barbarian sounds absolutely ridiculous.

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Am I wrong in thinking that the current voice sets for the custom character are just our main VA actors reading the Tav lines?

These are my guesses, you tell me if off the mark...

Voice 2 is Jen
Voice 4 is Devora
Voice 6 is Sam
Voice 8 is Amelia

I have a harder time with the male voice sets, but I think maybe

Voice 1 is Neil
Voice 3 is Theo
Voice 5 is Tim
Voice 7 is ???

Like obviously they're doing a different vocal performance than the one they delivered for the Origins, but it would make sense, since those are the actors who probably spent the most time recording. Adding on a few hundred lines on top for TAV barks might have been the deal there. Whereas calling JK Simmons or Jason Isaacs back in for that stuff to tell us about how "Something just woke up down here" might have been a little harder to schedule, and perhaps a bit of an embarrassing ask.

Like alright Jason, so in this scene, your motivation is that you really want to open that chest, but it sealed with magic - Go!" lol

I think they did pretty great job honestly, since it took me long ass time to put two and two together there, but we need a bunch of these if they want it to really carry. I'd vote for a couple North American or Indo-Pacific accents to round stuff out as well.

I just want to be able to go in and change my voice mid game if I don't like it!