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CD Projekt Red Will Use AI to Bring Back Geralt’s Original Voice

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Newsrooms: 8
Last 3 hours: 1 report
Momentum: Slowing

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Where it’s heading

Probably peaked. Likely 12 to 13 newsrooms by 8:29am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we know

Against the past week

More newsrooms than 95% of the past week’s 4153 stories, and number 8 of 302 in Games.

Part of a bigger story

Geralt VA: 3 developments since Mon 9 Nov.

Meccha Chameleon’s 4 Golden Joystick Wins Set New Indie Record (shares CD Projekt and The Witcher); Geralt of Rivia Officially Returns in New Witcher Expansion (shares Geralt and The Witcher)

Why it’s moving

Cooling1 report in the last 3 hours, down from 4 in the 3 before.

The voice of Geralt's voice actor has changed significantly due to time and health conditions, so CD Projekt Red is using AI to restore it.

In Polygon’s words.²

Read the full story at Polygon

The bigger story: Geralt VA

3 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 1 more since this one.

Mon, 9 Nov, 10:25pm AEDT
Ahead of The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past, here's a "lore friendly unofficial expansion to Geralt's life in Toussaint" from a well-established quest modder
1 newsroom
Thu, 12 Nov, 8:07am AEDT
New Witcher 3 DLC Uses AI to Touch Up Geralt's Polish Voice Due to Actor's Health Issues
You’re here12 newsrooms. Linked by The Witcher, Past, Geralt, Geralt VA, song
Thu, 12 Nov, 8:51am AEDT
The Witcher 3 expansion uses AI to adjust Geralt’s Polish voiceover because the actor suffered a stroke
2 newsrooms. Linked by The Witcher, Geralt, polish, actor

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The story so far

8 newsroomsCooling

Reports: 15
Newsrooms and sources: 8
Last 3 hours: 1
Last 24 hours

Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 4 in the three before).

First with it: GamesRadar+, 53 min before anyone else.

Reported by 8 newsrooms.

Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: GamesRadar+ and Steam news hub and IGN and Destructoid and PC Gamer (the same headline).

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How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from

Where the coverage is from

How it spread

Newsrooms: 8
Reports: 15
Over: 17.3 hr
To three newsrooms: 5.8 hr

Newsrooms on it each counted once

Newsrooms reporting over time
Time	Newsroom	Total
8:07am AEDT	GamesRadar+	1
9:00am AEDT	Kotaku	2
1:55pm AEDT	Nintendo Life	3
9:40pm AEDT	Rock Paper Shotgun	4
9:53pm AEDT	Dexerto	5
10:38pm AEDT	Polygon	6
11:00pm AEDT	Push Square	7
1:26am AEDT	Eurogamer	8

When	Likely range	Most likely
Now	12	12
In 1 hours (3:29am AEDT)	12 to 12	12
In 3 hours (5:29am AEDT)	12 to 12	12
In 6 hours (8:29am AEDT)	12 to 13	12
In 12 hours (2:29pm AEDT)	12 to 13	12
In 24 hours (2:29am AEDT)	12 to 13	12

CD Projekt Red Will Use AI to Bring Back Geralt’s Original Voice

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Time	Source	Total
8:07am AEDT	GamesRadar+	1
8:11am AEDT	Steam news hub	2
8:52am AEDT	IGN	3
9:00am AEDT	Kotaku	4
9:01am AEDT	Destructoid	5
9:21am AEDT	Steam news hub	6
10:11am AEDT	Steam news hub	7
11:02am AEDT	PC Gamer	8
11:03am AEDT	Steam news hub	9
1:55pm AEDT	Nintendo Life	10
9:40pm AEDT	Rock Paper Shotgun	11
9:53pm AEDT	Dexerto	12
10:38pm AEDT	Polygon	13
11:00pm AEDT	Push Square	14
1:26am AEDT	Eurogamer	15

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