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by marcan_42 1997 days ago
It's TTS. They absolutely don't go dubbing around every line for this, that'd be insane. That's the whole point of this system, to provide some fun sounding audio for the lines without having to actually dub them. You can tell because they speak your island name and your own name exactly the same way as the rest of the text, accurately. And because it's pretty monotone and consistent.

Besides, can you imagine voice actors dubbing this stuff in this kind of voice line by line? They'd go insane.

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Yeah that makes sense. I guess I figured they could have processed the spoken audio, not that the actors would have actually talked like that. I was just fooled by the fact that their TTS sounds more passably human than any other I've heard (in an abstract way).