Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown launches subsequent week, however gamers are more likely to encounter an amusing bug as they make their method by means of the sport. Engadget: One of many recreation’s NPCs is voiced by a text-to-speech program, full with the marginally robotic tones we have come to affiliate with these companies. It isn’t fairly Siri or Alexa, however it’s shut and definitely does not match the sport’s Persian-inspired setting. The NPC-in-question is a tree spirit named Kalux and appears to be voiced by a TTS program that is obtainable on-line without cost and sometimes utilized by streamers.
This is not an “AI is coming in your jobs” sort factor, however quite a mistake on Ubisoft’s half, as each different NPC is connected to a voice actor. IGN notes that Kalux does not have a voice actor within the credit. Moreover, Kalux solely has a couple of strains, so it doubtless will not be a troublesome repair to assign an actor to ship that dialogue. Ubisoft has readied a day-one patch, however it will not deal with the Kalux difficulty. Search for one other patch in late January or early February that replaces the bot with a human.