Russian voice acting released for Baldur's Gate 3. Modern technologies solved the localization issue

Baldur's Gate 3 is quite a large game and it's hard to expect localization from enthusiasts, but with the development of technology, a solution has emerged

Baldur's Gate 3 received Russian localization, but only text translation is available, while some fans would also like to have Russian voice acting. However, it is difficult to expect a full-fledged “human” voiceover for such a massive role-playing game in other languages, yet modern technologies still make it possible to bring such an idea to life.

SynthVoiceRu on Boosty presented a full Russian voiceover for Baldur’s Gate 3:

You need to download two files

• https://disk.yandex.ru/d/jtcPSGb6rqK6Sg
• https://disk.yandex.ru/d/ilz4nTeoWDCVBg

And then place the files in the modifications folder, example path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\Mods

Naturally, the project is not ideal, SynthVoiceRu himself notes:

1) Sometimes the voice tone is conveyed incorrectly (rarely)

2) There are unvoiced lines that did not fit into the timings (few)

I continue working on solving these problems and improving the model.

In the comments, one of the users shared their impressions — overall very satisfied, but still, such Russian AI voice acting for Baldur’s Gate 3 has issues:

“Played it, really like it, completely different feeling from the game. Among the downsides, it confuses stresses quite often (I'm no expert — is it possible to fix this by continuing training?), the volume to my ear is lower than the original voice acting, because of this the background sometimes drowns out phrases, some phrases are not voiced when giving squad move commands. Pluses, well what is there to say, everyone already understands that a huge, not cheap job was done and the result is impressive.”

Announcement video: https://youtu.be/zCzNGaV2w6A

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Cover author: Larian. Image source: steamcommunity.com