CD Projekt Red has recreated Geralt's Polish voice with AI for a new Witcher 3 expansion, and it had the original actor's blessing all along.
The studio tapped AI company Respeecher to record and refine the Polish performance of Jacek Rozenek, who suffered a stroke in 2019.
His voice had since dropped lower and grown gruffer, and the team worried that shift would jar players moving between old and newly recorded dialogue.
So the expansion, titled Songs of the Past and due next year, leans on the technology to make his delivery sound the way it once did, with Rozenek signing off on the approach.
The studio's head of localization Mikoaj Szwed frames it as a rare responsible use of the tool: "I do think this is one of those ways where you can use AI ethically, with consent and also do something good."
Doug Cockle returns as Geralt's English voice for the expansion, which arrives after the game's September remaster on Switch 2 and other platforms.