
Thankfully, Skyrim's modding community has created ways of alleviating this. Even talking to Arngeir, collecting all of the shouts, and meditating on them with Paarthurnax rewards players with relatively minor boosts that don't fundamentally change shouts. There is very little room for growth in the shouting system, and it is much too easy to rely on Skyrim's bread-and-butter shouts, like Unrelenting Force, Slow Time, and Marked for Death no matter what the player's intended strategy is. And if you're wondering why Ysolda's dress looks weird, that'll be the Vanilla Skinned Mesh Physics Clothing mod.Related: How D&D Dragonborn Characters Are (& Aren't) Like Skyrim'sįor instance, if the player wanted to roleplay as a student of the Way of the Voice - as they might in an RPG about using dragon shouts - they only have a limited number of ways to explore this in their character's build. (It's worth noting that video doesn't use the current version of the default voice, by the way. As you can see in the Dragonborn Voice Over showcase video, there's about a two-second pause before NPCs reply after each AI-generated line. May says this mod is a work in progress, with more voice packs to come as well as an update that will decrease the response time between player-character dialogue and non-player character responses. As well as the default, other modders have contributed voice packs based on Wang Yuanji from Dynasty Warriors and the female Sith Inquisitor from Star Wars: The Old Republic.

So far three voice packs are available, all based on women's voices. Skyrim's protagonist has more than 7,000 lines of dialogue, so you can see why it's easier to get an AI to generate dialogue than having someone sit down and record it. You can select from a handful of voice packs, each created with ElevenLabs AI.
