Re: xVASynth Voice Compiler

[templeofninpo]

Am I correct to presume that there is no question as to the legal capacity to use Fallout 3 voices as 'trainers' for the new xVASynth (https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/70815) Voice Compiler? But what of Bethesda games outside of FO3 and FONV?

It's mod page suggests

Note on cross-game use: No game assets are uses/distributed by this tool. The game assets are only used during training as reference for the algorithm to drive itself towards a point where it can create voices close enough to the reference examples. The question of permissions is at the moment more a question about ethics rather than law, as nothing yet exists for neural speech synthesis.

I absolutely understand being better safe than sorry and am just thrilled that this program exists at all, its just that it would be cool to have such a library of voices to pick from.

[Keats]

A quick search seems to suggest that, at least in the US and EU, using machine learning algorithms to generate new content from copyrighted works should be legal... but it hasn't actually been tested in court yet, so no-one can say for sure(and if it is legal in some cases, what limitations might apply).