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Nintendo announced on Twitter that Charles Martinet, 67, would become a "Mario Ambassador," rather than the iconic voice of the character.

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[–] GhostOfElectricity@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if Nintendo is considering training an AI voice model based on Martinet's recordings or something. Are they advanced enough yet to do convincing wahoos? I can't imagine another voice for Mario.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say this like it hasn't already happened.

[–] GhostOfElectricity@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Has it? I guess I shouldn't have phrased it as though they're just now considering their options. They've obviously planned for this.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they advanced enough yet to do convincing wahoos?

Doubtful. Nintendo isn't even advanced enough to host a single gameplay server for any of their top multiplayer games. Charging money for access to a P2P-networked game mode is not only an insult to the players, but honestly ought to be illegal, but that's another rant for another day.

I love Nintendo, but they really seem to be afraid of technology.

[–] GhostOfElectricity@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was talking about voice models, not Nintendo. Nintendo could make use of AI if they wanted to. And saying they aren't advanced enough is plain wrong. Whoever makes those decisions just isn't willing to spend their resources on proper online infrastructure.

[–] Thoth19@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Normally you'd be right. But Nintendo is just kinda bad at a lot of technology. Pokemon cheating, preventing hacks on their HW, bug bounty program, etc. To say nothing of their issues with older games being emulated etc.

From their track record id expect them to outsource to a vendor for the voice model. Then there is some minor problem that gets fans mad. The vendor fixes the problem but Nintendo decides that all attempts in the space are doomed and doesn't touch ai voice for years and uses a stupidly over complicated solution in the interim.