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For reference, the original Japanese doesn’t explicitly have the phrase ‘Sack up, Commander,’ but it fit both his English characterization and (just as important) the lip-flaps. Trying to match this effect exactly in English might have come across as a bit too affected or ‘tryhard’, so instead we kept close to the actor’s natural range while making him sound like an American delinquent he uses more ‘naughty’ words and a more aggressive tone to support his attitude. For example, Raz’s Japanese voice actor has a kind of deep growl to his voice – he’s a delinquent with some swagger. Sometimes that means the English and Japanese voices will sound very similar – Claude is a great example of that – but other times the English analogue to a Japanese voice or personality won’t sound exactly the same.

JS: What criteria does the team use in casting English voice talent? Do the actors’ voices have to sound like their Japanese counterparts?ĪD: We’ll do our best in matching English voice talent with their character. We want this to look as natural as possible, so we’d rather avoid the old English-dubbing trope of character animations being completely mismatched to their English VO. If we just used a direct translation or our first pass at a localized script, we’d likely end up with a script that’s very difficult to match to character animations. How does a Japanese script turn into an English VO?ĪD: In general, we’ll provide translations for the English voice director, then the director has to slightly alter the lines in order to match them to character lip flaps. JS: So, from what I can tell, this is a pretty extensive process. We also had to consider the length of the subtitles for each spoken phrase each line needed to be short enough in subtitles to look presentable, but the audio needed to be as long and drawn out as possible to match the heavy, deflated tone in the scene. However, Claude’s Japanese VO for this opening scene had so many extended pauses that it took a lot of work to match the English script and VO to the Japanese even without animation to worry about. Since you record to match lip flaps, is it kind of a nice break for the team when you have a scene like this without any animation?ĪD: In most cases yes, it’s nice to not worry about matching animations.

JS: This prologue cutscene starts with a black screen while Claude, the game’s lead character, talks over it. We kept the exact same team members present throughout the recording process to ensure consistency in the VO’s direction. We also had some re-recordings to fine-tune parts of the localization we wanted to improve. Jonathon Stebel: About how long was the English VO recording process for the game?Īndrew Davis: We spent about 10 weeks total in the studio, starting with the untimed lines – VO with no timing restrictions – and then moving on to the Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR), the scenes where we match voices to characters’ lip-flap.

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