*UPDATE: After two long years, I have finally gotten around to updating this old thing. A new BA2 Version of the mod has been uploaded. Far Harbor DLC voice lines (among a few others) should now work as intended. You can always download the loose files version if you want (and even create an archive of those for yourself, if you know what you're doing).
I like this! Thanks for sharing, always boggled me how human he sounded. I'll just head-canon the sudden voice change when I ask him his thoughts as a glitch or something.
Valentine's vanilla voice sounds clearly higher than the mod to my ears. As to the mod itself, idea behind it's a good one but much too over-done imho. Remember, him & Dima were prototypes - an attempt to take a gen 2 to think & come across as human. Their voices should thus be almost human, and I think Bethesda got Dima's voice and intonations spot-on in this regard.
Exactly, they've built some gen 2 prototypes, uploaded memories of some people into them, making them think like humans, think and speak like ones. A robotic voice doesn't fit in their cases.
Amazing work, trully. But I don't agree with the idea. I mean, it's fine for people to try it out, if it works for them. For me it doesn't. It doesn't deliver. It's like trying to give a robot a soul (which FO4 does try indeed, but anyway), but failing at it. It's the delivery of the lines. The manner in which Nick speaks. This robotic voice doesn't fit the style. He speaks in a too human-like manner to have a robotic voice deliver the lines. If his lines were changed overall, the pace, the manner, the slang, everything, then the robotic voice would be fine, even a total fit for a 2nd gen Synth. But the way he speaks in vanilla game, the way his personality goes, the robotic voice doesn't deliver. At least not for me. Again, if it works for people, then go on, I'm not hating this mod, or anything, I'm just voicing my opinion on why it doesn't work for me.
Perhaps a version which would make him sound closer to the generic synths would work better. A more mono-channeled, raspy filter with slightly lowered pitch.
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Again, if it works for people, then go on, I'm not hating this mod, or anything, I'm just voicing my opinion on why it doesn't work for me.
Perhaps a version which would make him sound closer to the generic synths would work better. A more mono-channeled, raspy filter with slightly lowered pitch.