I don’t get how that’s going to help with multiple keys on my cheap keyboard not registering properly, when pressed at the same time.

IMHO, nKRO is the best solution to get rid of ghosting.

The wall of text was the error message.

I just prefer using the parsed outputs from IDEs which also take you to the line of code on click.

= Were you “acting” ?

non-voice actors were paid

I feel like being paid for it would kinda make them a VA, but sure.

And if the quality of AI voice were that bad, it would be worthless anyway and noone would create/use packages for it.

I wouldnt pay extra for an AI version of an actor I liked.

If course. It is about paying less after all.
The actor decided to get some passive income by licensing their TTS and someone used it as they wanted. That’s all there is to it.

Apart from maybe, being able to get the AI to create different accented versions of a VA (which, said VA doesn’t do otherwise), the AI voice will mostly be of a lower grade than a good VA. Which is what makes it unfit for foreground roles, which the user will be actively listening to.
You definitely don’t want cutscenes to be filled with half-assed rubbish, which might be otherwise, fine for background chatter, where it is just filling the silence. And in cases where the background chatter is a part of the experience and the devs care about it, they will be getting active VAs like they currently do. There are more perfectionists in artistic fields than one would expect.

I don’t intend on pushing that one to the AUR. It’s not worth it.
Maybe I’ll make an AppImage at most.

I don’t know any formal requirements for it being on AUR, but I just feel like this one does not fit there.

Gatekeeping the word “software” here?
Here’s something not in the AUR. Tested on arch

If it’s C or C++, I get the source from the project’s GitHub / GitLab / Source Hosting thing and compile it for myself.
For programming languages that I don’t read, I usually use the AUR.

Also,

• GoG for games
• Xilinx website, for that one time, I got the ISE
• AppImage sometimes

In India, if I call out someone for coughing in my face, IATA.

So, unless you die of it, there are no repercussions to someone blatantly coughing at your face, again and again, despite protests.

I don’t feel sorry for anyone doing that.

When the world is built upon forgiveness…

Both can be done.

Depends upon who takes it first.
If VAs don’t make it efficient for themselves, their clients will make it so and the one who does it, gets to pocket the savings.

voice actors would agree with your license idea

The ones who won’t, are probably also those with good enough exp and able to get into “foreground” roles.

The ones who would, can now have a passive income.

viewable for free online

If you are viewing it on your computer, you have already downloaded it.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

already downloaded onto your computer and can be found in the browser cache

Exactly.

I don’t really think of it that way.
Instead, more like:

• If there’s no voice, noone got paid
• If there is a voice, someone got paid x (> 0) amount
  • And if the offered amount was lower than what the VA would expect ^[1], then the dev won’t get the license

Also, in the above condition, the VA only needs to make the TTS package once (then maybe a few upgrades if the standard gets updated) and gets to reuse it for multiple licenses.

Macintosh heat sinking into ice-caps.

Wise Mac users move to Antarctica to prolong the life of the badly cooled devices.

The system you described would mean only the biggest names get paid

Rather, it’s more like, we as the user get a greater variety of background NPC banter, for the same game price.

Take X4 for instance. The only banter we get is different types of “hello”.
Only in cases of quests, is there any dialogue variety. When there is any such banter out of quests, it’s mostly incoherent (or was that another game, I need to check again).
It doesn’t really make sense that 2 or more people meet in a docking area, say, “Hi”, “Hello”, “Good day to you” and then just keep on standing staring at each other’s faces as if they were using some sort of telepathy, or just staring at each other without any conversation.
It would be fun to be able to have conversations that, while clear that they would not be able to yield any Quest, should still have variety enough to be fun when the player stops by, eavesdropping.
This sort of thing is there in a lot of games by high budget studios, while at the same time, the games have pretty large file sizes.
This way, we can reduce both production and distribution costs.

And the VAs, they don’t need to do all the work of speaking each dialogue every time the story writers come up with new banter, but the studio will be getting their voice for those lines, essentially increasing the value of the licensed TTS package, meaning the VA gets more work done than the work they do and gets paid more (well, the last part depends more upon the market condition).

The content is… AI assisted (maybe a better way to put it).
And yes, now you don’t need to get the VA every time you add a line, as long as the License for the TTS data holds.

You still want to be having proper VAs for lead roles though. Or you might end up with empty feeling dialogues. Even though AI tends to put inflections and all, from what I have seen, it’s not good enough to reproduce proper acting.
Of course that would mean that those who cannot do the higher quality acting ^[1] will be stuck with only making the TTS files, instead of getting lead roles.

But that will mean that now, places where games could not afford to add voice, they now can. Specially useful for cases where someone is doing a one dev project.

Even better if there can be an open standard format for AI training compatible TTS data. That way, a VA can just pay a one time fee to a tech, to create that file, then own said file and licence it whichever way they like.

I just re-read my comment and realised I was not clear enough.
You bundle the text and the AI-TTS. Not the AI text generator.