CD Projekt Red AI voice conversion, Digi Mart USA News: CD Projekt Red has confirmed that the Polish Geralt lines recorded by Jacek Rozenek for The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past will be processed using Respeecher’s voice conversion technology. Rozenek has voiced Geralt in Polish since The Witcher launched in 2007.
Rozenek suffered a stroke in 2019 that left him unable to speak for months, and he rebuilt his voice through intensive rehabilitation. He still records every new line himself.
Respeecher then reshapes the audio using a model built from his original Witcher 3 recordings, including about 10,000 base-game lines, so the new dialogue matches the older material.
The studio’s localization producer, Mikołaj Szwed, told Game File that CDPR invited Rozenek to its studios about a year ago to hear how his voice sounded now. The session showed that new lines could clash with the originals, which often play close together.
With Rozenek’s blessing, CDPR contacted Respeecher, a Ukrainian voice cloning company it had worked with before.
CDPR describes the arrangement as a special case driven by Rozenek’s health, and says it does not plan to keep altering his voice in future projects. Szwed acknowledged that AI is a major concern for voice actors, but argued that this case can be handled ethically, with consent.
Rozenek told Game File, as reported by Kotaku, that he wants his voice to be as close as possible to how he sounded 12 years ago, and that he trusts the game’s creators. He has not listened to the AI-processed lines himself.
Songs of the Past, announced in May and co-developed with Fool’s Theory, is The Witcher 3’s third story expansion and is scheduled for a paid release in 2027. It will add new Geralt dialogue, battle cries, reactions and one-liners.
