{"id":1828076,"date":"2026-03-15T15:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1828076"},"modified":"2026-03-15T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:47:44","slug":"arc-raiders-ceo-says-studio-has-re-recorded-ai-lines-a-real-professional-actor-is-better-than-ai-thats-just-how-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1828076","title":{"rendered":"Arc Raiders CEO says studio has &#8220;re-recorded&#8221; AI lines: &#8220;A real professional actor is better than AI; that&#8217;s just how it is&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/arc-raiders\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      ARC Raiders<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Arc Raiders CEO says studio has &#8220;re-recorded&#8221; AI lines: &#8220;A real professional actor is better than AI; that&#8217;s just how it is&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">&#8220;There is a quality difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/screenshot-from-arc-raiders-showing-a-chap-hiding-behind-a-car-overlaid-on-an-image-of-the-Hollywood-sign_w0CaAhN.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"screenshot from arc raiders showing a chap hiding behind a car overlaid on an image of the Hollywood sign\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"screenshot-from-arc-raiders-showing-a-chap-hiding-behind-a-car-overlaid-on-an-image-of-the-Hollywood-sign_w0CaAhN.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vikki Blake avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1533038852.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Vikki Blake avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1533038852.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/vikki-blake\">Vikki Blake<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-03-15T15:47:44+00:00\">March 15, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/arc-raiders-ceo-says-studio-has-re-recorded-ai-lines-a-real-professional-actor-is-better-than-ai-thats-just-how-it-is?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          6 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"6bd46880-2f1c-43d7-b873-ed10ed59c226\" data-name=\"ARC Raiders\" data-follow-text=\"Follow ARC Raiders\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following ARC Raiders\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow ARC Raiders\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following ARC Raiders\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow ARC Raiders\" title=\"Follow ARC Raiders\"><br \/>\n  Follow ARC Raiders<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/arc-raiders\">Arc Raiders<\/a> developer Embark Studios has re-recorded some of its AI-generated voice lines, acknowledging &#8220;there is a quality difference&#8221; between lines recorded by human actors and those generated by AI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We use AI as tools to assist in some content creation, but it&#8217;s always in the context of creativity, as an expression of the team,&#8221; CCO Stefan Strandberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/theres-no-shortcut-to-making-great-games-embark-studios-cco-responds-to-and-defends-ai-use-in-arc-raiders\">told Eurogamer back in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Text-to-speech] allows us to increase the scope of the game in some areas where we think it&#8217;s needed, or where there&#8217;s tedious repetition, in situations where the voice actors may not see it as valuable work. So it&#8217;s a wide umbrella, but the experience of the game doesn&#8217;t use any generative AI,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, talking to our sister site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/embark-studios-head-patrick-soderlund-explains-how-arc-raiders-was-made-on-a-quarter-of-the-budget-of-a-aaa-title\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, CEO Patrick S\u00f6derlund has revealed the studio has since &#8220;re-recorded some of the lines post-launch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We pay our actors for all time spent with us in the booth and continue to bring many of them back as we carry on updating the game,&#8221; the CEO explained. &#8220;For select usage, we also pay them for the approval to license their voices through text-to-speech for lines that aren&#8217;t as essential to the immersion of the experience, mostly ping system audio.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We re-recorded some of the lines post-launch and made them with real voices,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There is a quality difference. A real professional actor is better than AI; that&#8217;s just how it is. We look at [AI] first and foremost as a production tool. We can test things internally. We can test 15 different lines without recording them, and then we know what to record. It&#8217;s also a way for us to work, not replace actors. We don&#8217;t necessarily believe in replacing humans with AI all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other Arc Raiders news, <a href=\"http:\/\/stored\/\">Discord has responded to a recent data security issue<\/a> that arose with Arc Raiders&#8217; Discord Integration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/arc-raiders-discord-messages-security-problem-fix-incoming\">which was storing users&#8217; private Discord messages locally on their PCs<\/a>. While this has now been hotfixed by the developers at Embark, a Discord spokesperson said it was &#8220;providing guidance to developers and updating the Discord Social SDK with additional protections&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/arc-raiders\">Arc Raiders<\/a> developer Embark Studios has re-recorded some of its AI-generated voice lines, acknowledging &#8220;there is a quality difference&#8221; between lines recorded by human actors and those generated by AI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We use AI as tools to assist in some content creation, but it&#8217;s always in the context of creativity, as an expression of the team,&#8221; CCO Stefan Strandberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/theres-no-shortcut-to-making-great-games-embark-studios-cco-responds-to-and-defends-ai-use-in-arc-raiders\">told Eurogamer back in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Text-to-speech] allows us to increase the scope of the game in some areas where we think it&#8217;s needed, or where there&#8217;s tedious repetition, in situations where the voice actors may not see it as valuable work. So it&#8217;s a wide umbrella, but the experience of the game doesn&#8217;t use any generative AI,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, talking to our sister site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/embark-studios-head-patrick-soderlund-explains-how-arc-raiders-was-made-on-a-quarter-of-the-budget-of-a-aaa-title\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, CEO Patrick S\u00f6derlund has revealed the studio has since &#8220;re-recorded some of the lines post-launch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We pay our actors for all time spent with us in the booth and continue to bring many of them back as we carry on updating the game,&#8221; the CEO explained. &#8220;For select usage, we also pay them for the approval to license their voices through text-to-speech for lines that aren&#8217;t as essential to the immersion of the experience, mostly ping system audio.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We re-recorded some of the lines post-launch and made them with real voices,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There is a quality difference. A real professional actor is better than AI; that&#8217;s just how it is. We look at [AI] first and foremost as a production tool. We can test things internally. We can test 15 different lines without recording them, and then we know what to record. It&#8217;s also a way for us to work, not replace actors. We don&#8217;t necessarily believe in replacing humans with AI all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other Arc Raiders news, <a href=\"http:\/\/stored\/\">Discord has responded to a recent data security issue<\/a> that arose with Arc Raiders&#8217; Discord Integration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/arc-raiders-discord-messages-security-problem-fix-incoming\">which was storing users&#8217; private Discord messages locally on their PCs<\/a>. While this has now been hotfixed by the developers at Embark, a Discord spokesperson said it was &#8220;providing guidance to developers and updating the Discord Social SDK with additional protections&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News ARC Raiders Arc Raiders CEO says studio has &#8220;re-recorded&#8221; AI lines: &#8220;A real professional actor is better than AI; that&#8217;s just how it is&#8221; &#8220;There is a quality difference.&#8221; Image credit: Eurogamer News by Vikki Blake Contributor Published on March 15, 2026 6 comments Follow ARC Raiders Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,253],"class_list":["post-1828076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-eurogamer-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1828076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1828076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1828076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1828076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}