Localisation producer described use of AI as a “special case” after a stroke caused Jacek Rozenek’s voice to change when returning for new expansion<\/p>\n
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For The Witcher 3’s Songs of the Past expansion, CD Projekt Red used AI to alter the voice of Geralt’s original Polish actor, Jacek Rozenek.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Rozenek suffered a stroke that left him unable to speak. In an interview with Game File, he described his recovery, which required six to seven hours of voice training daily.<\/p>\n
Rozenek briefly returned to voice Geralt in The Witcher 3’s 2022 next-gen update but found the sessions exhausting. CDPR wanted him back for Songs of the Past but recognised his voice now differs significantly from 12 years ago.<\/p>\n
“For future projects, when we consider Geralt is becoming older and has a deeper voice, this is not a problem for us at all,” said CDPR’s localisation director Miko\u0142aj Szwed.<\/p>\n
“It’s more about this specific situation here, where we have both the voice from 12 years ago and from now next to each other, which could kind of take people out of the experience and feel that like there is this difference.”<\/p>\n
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