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Male Narrator Mod - CIV5 1.0 — Baldur's Gate 3

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Hello~! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ This mod replaces the default narrator with a male voice styled after the late William Morgan Sheppard; the narrator for CIV5. The voice model was made and trained with the power of AI. Over 7000 lines of dialogue has been edited.

Shout out to @orinEsque for providing me the necessary files to make a compatibility patch ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡

ଘ(੭ ᐛ )━☆゚.*・。゚ !!! DISCLAIMER !!!
I of course have not listened to every single line, so apologies in advance if any of the audio is unclear, sounds strange, or has incorrect/bizarre pronunciations!

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NameVersionTypeDescriptionUploaded
MaleNarratorCiv51.0MainReplaces the default narrator with a male voice.10-Jan-24
MNCVNAPatch1.0OptionalCompatibility patch for No Alphabets10-Jan-24



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  1. Make life easy. Use BG3 Mon Manager.
  2. Load Order. Give the patch the highest priority. Else it shouldn't really matter where you put the main mod.



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Should work with any mod that doesn't alter the voice files for the narrator! If your mod has customized voice lines, send me a PM and I'll be happy to make a compatibility patch! ♡✧( •⌄• )
I do not know if this works with the new epilogue party yet so *fingers crossed*




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If there are any missing lines of dialogue please let me know down below and I'll see what I can do (ง ͠ಥ_ಥ)ง




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If you enjoyed my mod please consider giving it a <3! Please let me know your thoughts and opinions~! And if you're feelin' a lil frisky:

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Could you clear something up for me(for legal reasons):
Was the original narrator's audio used at all for this, or just the lines as written by Larian?
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rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:23
Could you clear something up for me(for legal reasons):
Was the original narrator's audio used at all for this, or just the lines as written by Larian?
The model itself was trained with some YouTube video I found of Mr. Sheppard speaking lines from Civ5 without background noise.
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Prismatika wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:31
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:23
Could you clear something up for me(for legal reasons):
Was the original narrator's audio used at all for this, or just the lines as written by Larian?
The model itself was trained with some YouTube video I found of Mr. Sheppard speaking lines from Civ5 without background noise.
But not the narrator from BG3, correct?
I don't know her name, sorry.
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Sounds really good will try that out in my next 10th playthrough.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:39
Prismatika wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:31
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:23
Could you clear something up for me(for legal reasons):
Was the original narrator's audio used at all for this, or just the lines as written by Larian?
The model itself was trained with some YouTube video I found of Mr. Sheppard speaking lines from Civ5 without background noise.
But not the narrator from BG3, correct?
I don't know her name, sorry.
I don't think the narrator or her lawyers understand wtf they are saying. This is Internet is a series of tubes all over again.
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orinEsque wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:24
I don't think the narrator or her lawyers understand wtf they are saying. This is Internet is a series of tubes all over again.
I'm just trying to understand if the original voice actor's work is used at all. My assumption is no, but I want a clear statement from the author(s) of these mods.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:39
Prismatika wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:31
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:23
Could you clear something up for me(for legal reasons):
Was the original narrator's audio used at all for this, or just the lines as written by Larian?
The model itself was trained with some YouTube video I found of Mr. Sheppard speaking lines from Civ5 without background noise.
But not the narrator from BG3, correct?
I don't know her name, sorry.
If you want to convert voice A to voice B, the model you need to train is for voice B. Any voice then fed through voice model will then give you voice B. So to answer your question the narrators voice will never have been used to create a model.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:27
orinEsque wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:24
I don't think the narrator or her lawyers understand wtf they are saying. This is Internet is a series of tubes all over again.
I'm just trying to understand if the original voice actor's work is used at all. My assumption is no, but I want a clear statement from the author(s) of these mods.
This is speech to speech so her voice is input for the already created model

It's now has more than 20% difference and is transformative work. If someone took this to court i think she'd lose.
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orinEsque wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:29
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:27
orinEsque wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:24
I don't think the narrator or her lawyers understand wtf they are saying. This is Internet is a series of tubes all over again.
I'm just trying to understand if the original voice actor's work is used at all. My assumption is no, but I want a clear statement from the author(s) of these mods.
This is speech to speech so her voice is input for the already created model

It's now has more than 20% difference and is transformative work. If someone took this to court i think she'd lose.
:scratch:
I don't see how this is copyright infringement anymore than me uploading an audio file of me singing a rendition of a copyrighted song sung by Singer A based on lyrics that are owned by neither me nor Singer A.

That is to say, not at all.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:40
orinEsque wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:29
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:27

I'm just trying to understand if the original voice actor's work is used at all. My assumption is no, but I want a clear statement from the author(s) of these mods.
This is speech to speech so her voice is input for the already created model

It's now has more than 20% difference and is transformative work. If someone took this to court i think she'd lose.
:scratch:
I don't see how this is copyright infringement anymore than me uploading an audio file of me singing a rendition of a copyrighted song sung by Singer A based on lyrics that are owned by neither me nor Singer A.

That is to say, not at all.
If I understood well what Nexus said, I don't think she used DMCA or anything like that against the modders, she simply, extrajudicially, asked Nexus to remove them without any legal basis, just because she doesn't want these mods around, and Nexus complied because they are spineless.
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@rusty_shackleford Might be out of the blue, but I wanted to express my appreciation for how you handle this place. I had a very dear (now passed away) friend that just about gave me life in more ways than one, and you remind me of him many times with how you handle things around here. Thank you for making this place, and I hope it will only grow stronger! <3

Thank you for re-uploading this mod Prismatika! I hope there are plans to make Mr. D's voice also compatible with No Alphabets mod (might be risky for removal, but it would be amazing to place it on NEXUS as an optional file). Heard about the voice actress acting "peculiar", and I hope it is just her legal team acting like this, but if it IS her, it only adds yet ANOTHER nail to the coffin to the love I had for this game. It's Skyrim all over again for me, modding it to make it the game it should have been.
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Post by GOW LIKE A BOSS »

@Prismatika Does load order matter when using a compatibility patch for BG3 mod manager? (This is my first mod I've needed one).

Also, if you are taking feedback on any issues noticed, I noticed the narrator slurs his word on "compassion" in the scene near the beginning after you've crashed and you're talking to the injured mind flayer in the crashed nautiloid right before you either kill him or let him die slowly.

Screenshot is the only google image I found of the correct scene (it's not these lines though. It's when the narrator says something like "you feel compassion")

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DagothGeas5 wrote: January 10th, 2024, 17:45
@rusty_shackleford Might be out of the blue, but I wanted to express my appreciation for how you handle this place. I had a very dear (now passed away) friend that just about gave me life in more ways than one, and you remind me of him many times with how you handle things around here. Thank you for making this place, and I hope it will only grow stronger! <3

Thank you for re-uploading this mod Prismatika! I hope there are plans to make Mr. D's voice also compatible with No Alphabets mod (might be risky for removal, but it would be amazing to place it on NEXUS as an optional file). Heard about the voice actress acting "peculiar", and I hope it is just her legal team acting like this, but if it IS her, it only adds yet ANOTHER nail to the coffin to the love I had for this game. It's Skyrim all over again for me, modding it to make it the game it should have been.
Actually he already did that. Look at the opening post again :D

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GOW LIKE A BOSS wrote: January 10th, 2024, 17:51
DagothGeas5 wrote: January 10th, 2024, 17:45
@rusty_shackleford Might be out of the blue, but I wanted to express my appreciation for how you handle this place. I had a very dear (now passed away) friend that just about gave me life in more ways than one, and you remind me of him many times with how you handle things around here. Thank you for making this place, and I hope it will only grow stronger! <3

Thank you for re-uploading this mod Prismatika! I hope there are plans to make Mr. D's voice also compatible with No Alphabets mod (might be risky for removal, but it would be amazing to place it on NEXUS as an optional file). Heard about the voice actress acting "peculiar", and I hope it is just her legal team acting like this, but if it IS her, it only adds yet ANOTHER nail to the coffin to the love I had for this game. It's Skyrim all over again for me, modding it to make it the game it should have been.
Actually he already did that. Look at the opening post again :D

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Thank you but I did indeed see that! It is for the Civilization 5 replacer though, he has yet another wonderful replacement on Nexus https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/5679 that I hoped to use, though I love them both (a different narrator for different playthroughs is my goal to keep myself engaged after all the times I was forced to restart :( )
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Just here to say thanks for the mod and glad you found this site, cheers!
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DagothGeas5 wrote: January 10th, 2024, 18:00
GOW LIKE A BOSS wrote: January 10th, 2024, 17:51
DagothGeas5 wrote: January 10th, 2024, 17:45
@rusty_shackleford Might be out of the blue, but I wanted to express my appreciation for how you handle this place. I had a very dear (now passed away) friend that just about gave me life in more ways than one, and you remind me of him many times with how you handle things around here. Thank you for making this place, and I hope it will only grow stronger! <3

Thank you for re-uploading this mod Prismatika! I hope there are plans to make Mr. D's voice also compatible with No Alphabets mod (might be risky for removal, but it would be amazing to place it on NEXUS as an optional file). Heard about the voice actress acting "peculiar", and I hope it is just her legal team acting like this, but if it IS her, it only adds yet ANOTHER nail to the coffin to the love I had for this game. It's Skyrim all over again for me, modding it to make it the game it should have been.
Actually he already did that. Look at the opening post again :D

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Thank you but I did indeed see that! It is for the Civilization 5 replacer though, he has yet another wonderful replacement on Nexus https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/5679 that I hoped to use, though I love them both (a different narrator for different playthroughs is my goal to keep myself engaged after all the times I was forced to restart :( )
Ah, I did not know there was another. I thought the Civ 5 guy just had another name :lol:
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Post by GOW LIKE A BOSS »

The Mr. D voice sounds a lot like the Narrator's voice from Disco Elysium, now that I've checked it out. Definitely a good option too
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GOW LIKE A BOSS wrote: January 10th, 2024, 17:49
@Prismatika Does load order matter when using a compatibility patch for BG3 mod manager? (This is my first mod I've needed one).

Also, if you are taking feedback on any issues noticed, I noticed the narrator slurs his word on "compassion" in the scene near the beginning after you've crashed and you're talking to the injured mind flayer in the crashed nautiloid right before you either kill him or let him die slowly.

Screenshot is the only google image I found of the correct scene (it's not these lines though. It's when the narrator says something like "you feel compassion")

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Hahaha nooo not fucking COMPASSIN. Gimme like a day or two I'll have to manually fix this omfg 🤣🤣🤣
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orinEsque wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:28
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:39
Prismatika wrote: January 10th, 2024, 13:31


The model itself was trained with some YouTube video I found of Mr. Sheppard speaking lines from Civ5 without background noise.
But not the narrator from BG3, correct?
I don't know her name, sorry.
If you want to convert voice A to voice B, the model you need to train is for voice B. Any voice then feed through voice model will then give you voice B. So to answer your question the narrators voice will never have been used to create a model.
@rusty_shackleford This is precisely how it was made.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:40
orinEsque wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:29
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:27

I'm just trying to understand if the original voice actor's work is used at all. My assumption is no, but I want a clear statement from the author(s) of these mods.
This is speech to speech so her voice is input for the already created model

It's now has more than 20% difference and is transformative work. If someone took this to court i think she'd lose.
:scratch:
I don't see how this is copyright infringement anymore than me uploading an audio file of me singing a rendition of a copyrighted song sung by Singer A based on lyrics that are owned by neither me nor Singer A.

That is to say, not at all.
THANK YOU. Now imagine me trying to convince the moderators of this 😂🤣😭
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Great mod, great choice of the voice, tyvm for making it. I didn't think it would improve my game as much as it did, but now I can't imagine playing without it.
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Pretty amazing technical accomplishment. Opens the door to studios iterating on dialog more and generating voice lines for tweaks instead of the current options of cutting content or a lengthy pipeline to record in a studio again.
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Prismatika wrote: January 10th, 2024, 19:09
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:40
orinEsque wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:29


This is speech to speech so her voice is input for the already created model

It's now has more than 20% difference and is transformative work. If someone took this to court i think she'd lose.
:scratch:
I don't see how this is copyright infringement anymore than me uploading an audio file of me singing a rendition of a copyrighted song sung by Singer A based on lyrics that are owned by neither me nor Singer A.

That is to say, not at all.
THANK YOU. Now imagine me trying to convince the moderators of this 😂🤣😭
It's shameful to think that Nexus, being the biggest mod hoster there is, isn't remotely interested in defending their modders, who effectively sustain these leech fucks for free with their hard and passionate work. But that's far from being one of their worst defects, just a bit telling of what kind of people they are.
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Anon wrote: January 11th, 2024, 02:29
Prismatika wrote: January 10th, 2024, 19:09
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:40

:scratch:
I don't see how this is copyright infringement anymore than me uploading an audio file of me singing a rendition of a copyrighted song sung by Singer A based on lyrics that are owned by neither me nor Singer A.

That is to say, not at all.
THANK YOU. Now imagine me trying to convince the moderators of this 😂🤣😭
It's shameful to think that Nexus, being the biggest mod hoster there is, isn't remotely interested in defending their modders, who effectively sustain these leech fucks for free with their hard and passionate work. But that's far from being one of their worst defects, just a bit telling of what kind of people they are.
They also sit in the whitest part of the UK have like 1-2 white Women and 20 white guys in the team and then they virtual signal about diversity and representation, while they dont want to live with it.
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Anon wrote: January 11th, 2024, 02:29
Prismatika wrote: January 10th, 2024, 19:09
rusty_shackleford wrote: January 10th, 2024, 16:40

:scratch:
I don't see how this is copyright infringement anymore than me uploading an audio file of me singing a rendition of a copyrighted song sung by Singer A based on lyrics that are owned by neither me nor Singer A.

That is to say, not at all.
THANK YOU. Now imagine me trying to convince the moderators of this 😂🤣😭
It's shameful to think that Nexus, being the biggest mod hoster there is, isn't remotely interested in defending their modders, who effectively sustain these leech fucks for free with their hard and passionate work. But that's far from being one of their worst defects, just a bit telling of what kind of people they are.
The companies with the money to defend against this bullshit are the ones who always pass on the opportunity.
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Vaako wrote: January 11th, 2024, 03:06
Anon wrote: January 11th, 2024, 02:29
Prismatika wrote: January 10th, 2024, 19:09


THANK YOU. Now imagine me trying to convince the moderators of this 😂🤣😭
It's shameful to think that Nexus, being the biggest mod hoster there is, isn't remotely interested in defending their modders, who effectively sustain these leech fucks for free with their hard and passionate work. But that's far from being one of their worst defects, just a bit telling of what kind of people they are.
They also sit in the whitest part of the UK have like 1-2 white Women and 20 white guys in the team and then they virtual signal about diversity and representation, while they dont want to live with it.
Very curious how Nexus justifies having 20 employees.
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J1M wrote: January 11th, 2024, 04:32
Vaako wrote: January 11th, 2024, 03:06
Anon wrote: January 11th, 2024, 02:29


It's shameful to think that Nexus, being the biggest mod hoster there is, isn't remotely interested in defending their modders, who effectively sustain these leech fucks for free with their hard and passionate work. But that's far from being one of their worst defects, just a bit telling of what kind of people they are.
They also sit in the whitest part of the UK have like 1-2 white Women and 20 white guys in the team and then they virtual signal about diversity and representation, while they dont want to live with it.
Very curious how Nexus justifies having 20 employees.
https://next.nexusmods.com/about

"We undertake Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging training to be more aware of diverse views and of our own biases to make sure we don't leave anyone feeling unheard or left behind."

Ofc also there. But lots of developers.
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Vaako wrote: January 11th, 2024, 04:57
J1M wrote: January 11th, 2024, 04:32
Vaako wrote: January 11th, 2024, 03:06


They also sit in the whitest part of the UK have like 1-2 white Women and 20 white guys in the team and then they virtual signal about diversity and representation, while they dont want to live with it.
Very curious how Nexus justifies having 20 employees.
https://next.nexusmods.com/about

"We undertake Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging training to be more aware of diverse views and of our own biases to make sure we don't leave anyone feeling unheard or left behind."

Ofc also there. But lots of developers.
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1-2 white women? I think your mistaking my friend all I see is a bunch of white dykes and lesbians, no men at all my friend.
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Goblin_Hammer wrote: January 11th, 2024, 05:08
Vaako wrote: January 11th, 2024, 04:57
J1M wrote: January 11th, 2024, 04:32


Very curious how Nexus justifies having 20 employees.
https://next.nexusmods.com/about

"We undertake Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging training to be more aware of diverse views and of our own biases to make sure we don't leave anyone feeling unheard or left behind."

Ofc also there. But lots of developers.
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1-2 white women? I think your mistaking my friend all I see is a bunch of white dykes and lesbians, no men at all my friend.
At least one of the woman is supposed to be in a relationship with the owner I have read and thats apparently why nexus became so bann happy when it comes to anti woke mods. And who knows maybe they also sucked the tit of ESG.
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