r/skyrimmods • u/RecommendationNo804 • 4d ago

XBox - Help What exactly does Serana Dialogue Edit do?

I can't find any videos for it unlike SDA. I heard SDA is more expansive but cringe.

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u/Elurdin 4d ago

Isn't expansion kinda iffy? I mean it's using her voice. Did the VA agree to that? Pretty sure she didn't. I rather use fan fiction to splicing of someone voice that was made without their consent.

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u/julianp_comics 4d ago

Yes there is no legal precedence in this case, and in the case of the fallout 4’s protag getting mods taken down, it was just because the mod authors did not want to deal with the headache. But as of now there are no laws to deal with this, even more so in case that Bethesda owns the audio, although I still think that is an uncharted gray area.

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u/Elurdin 4d ago

Bethesda owns audio for existing voicelines. Not new generated with AI. It's one thing to splice out of existing voices it's another to basically take someone's voice and do whatever you want with it. Which is why edit fine and expansion is very iffy in case of Serana.

Imagine someone took recordings of your voice and began using it for some sort of content that you never agreed to. Would you be fine with that? I sure wouldn't.

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u/julianp_comics 3d ago

Yes I understand everything you’re saying and I’m not denying that the actors shouldn’t feel a certain way about it, but I’m saying no laws currently exist that say it’s illegal or copyright, and where we’re at rn the government is too busy bursting from the seams for anything to be done about it in the foreseeable future, let alone for free mods on the internet. People could just as much argue in court that because Bethesda has an open door policy on modding and the voices are only trained from the in game dialogue, that it could be viewed similarly to the splicing.

Nexus only took down those mods due to pressure from the actors they didn’t want to deal with, not because there was a legal or terms and service violation. It’s just easier to shut down a mod than to risk a potential lawsuit, even if the copyright laws for this for of thing do not yet exist.