MyRobot Development Part 17 (Patreon)

Video shows summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Bugfixes

• AI Response Improvements

• Custom Voices

Bugfixes

Since I'm gearing up for a release in the next 2 weeks, I needed to make sure that everything is stable. So I'm doing lots of testing and checking edge cases. Since I focused on the foundational part of the game (robot companion), I did not introduce many new systems for the actual "gameplay" part of this game, so I expect the build to be fairly stable.

AI Response Improvements

Switching to a newer realtime ElevenLabs voice generation model on top of some internal server optimizations, the voice responses are now about twice as fast! This honestly makes a huge difference when trying to have a regular conversation with the robot since there are no longer any long and awkward pauses before a response. Big win!

Custom Voices

So it turns out that Eleven Labs limits the number of custom created voices that I can have at a time. Therefore I am only allowing 1 custom voice per Supporter until further notice. This means that if you were to have multiple robots, they would all share the same voice. I expect things to change when ElevenLabs changes their policy.

There are also some massive legal landmines for voice cloning. I do not plan to include any copyrighted character sound files in my game. It will instead be left to the discretion of the user, you.

Couple weeks before build releases!

Stay tuned!