Ubisoft's New Game Features Character Voiced by Text-to-Speech

The company confirms the use of TTS as a placeholder, plans to replace it with human voiceover in an upcoming update.

Ubisoft's new game, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, has a minor character, Kalux, that is voiced by a text-to-speech (TTS) program.
Ubisoft confirmed the use of TTS, stating it was a placeholder and that the English version of the eight lines spoken by the character were not properly implemented.
The company plans to replace the TTS with a human voiceover in an update planned for late January or early February.
Despite this, the game has received positive reviews and is fully voiced in multiple languages with over 12,000 lines of dialogue.
The use of TTS and AI in gaming and voice acting has been a topic of recent debate, with SAG-AFTRA recently signing a controversial agreement allowing an AI studio to create voices on union projects.