Breakdown
- Twitch streamer Burbs allowed their chat chat to voice NPCs in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Subs or VIPs could create an NPC and give them a phrase to say
- AI voices resulted in NPCs saying some interesting phrases
A Twitch streamer allowed their chat to become Skyrim NPCs with their own voiced phrases, and it went exactly how you’d expect.
Full-time Twitch streamer Blurbs gave his chat the opportunity to become a part of the game in a new Chat Voices Skyrim series. By becoming a VIP or a subscriber to the channel, fans could enter the world of Nirn and become a wood-chopping Khajit or a little orphan girl.
Blurbs made it so that characters could be added to the game world and recite phrases sent in when talked to. Chat could decide if they wanted to be represented by a specific type of character including gender and more.
In the livestream, chatter YiruOnTwitch immediately set the mood by a young girl say: “Hey there, kids! Would you like some drugs?”
Other hilarious encounters include a city guard saying they’re sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends, a Khajit complimenting the player’s genitals, and another child who said: “I heard there’s an adventurer abducting children from their homes and bringing them with him on his twisted journeys.”
Alongside the fact that chat can voice characters, the Twitch streamer made sure there was some risk to the system. Those who voice NPCs that get killed will instantly be banned. This means that anyone who sounds like they’re going to say something they shouldn’t can be quickly struck down by the streamer and wiped from the stream.
Blurbs has yet to explain exactly how the Skyrim mod that makes this possible actually works. However, as the streamer’s first mod for the beloved Bethesda game, they’ve done a bang-up job.
“It's a *lot* of different things running to make it work. So much so I really don't think I can package it into a single mod (or at least I don't know how, I'm new to this),” the streamer said on Twitter. “I'll be posting a video in the next week or so giving more info about how it's done.”
The streamer has already started to improve upon the mods they made for the Skyrim streams. In the latest Blurbs stream, they noted that it now takes less time for the AI to generate speech for characters thanks to a “different model”.
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