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Additional DBVO patches for the awesome Vampire voice, which works perfectly for any kind of adult male protagonist, so it's *not* just for bloodsuckers. This will be a growing patch collection, so if you use Vampire as a voice for your Dragonborn protagonist, I suggest you track this mod for updates. Credit for this AI voice goes to xXFEARTCBXx!

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Having been making Dragonborn Voice Over patches for this voice - Vampire DBVO Pack - for quite a while already, I thought I'd take some time to set up a Nexus page and share the labour I put into curating good lines for the Dragonborn. A big thank you to xXFEARTCBXx for the collaboration and help over the past year, and the consent to use his AI art to illustrate our affiliation on the Nexus and in the work we've put into this voice casting of the Dragonborn.

Aside from Text-to-Speech generation for lines for the Dragonborn, I have also started using the Speech-to-Speech function at Elevenlabs in order to get tricky lines just right. In that sense, the AI voice is merely a voice filter for my voice acting.

SAMPLE?
Please check xXFEARTCBXx's youtube video here to hear the voice:


When I find the time for it, I plan to record some more sample gameplay with this voice, using Improved Alternate Conversation Camera. I will also be recommending some settings for how to make the switch between the NPC and the DB work as best as possible within the constraints of that mod, even if it can be a bit of a roller coaster with the camera switch at times. I, personally, have gotten used to it. If there are any mod makers out there whom want to have challenge, there is a large community of DBVO users out there whom want a mod that has all that the above mentioned mod has, but also allows for instant switching between speakers in the conversation.


AVAILABLE PATCHES
This is an attempt at a complete list of patches for Vampire DBVO, starting with A) xXFEARTCBXx's page here on the Nexus, then below it, B) the patches available in the FOMOD here on this Nexus page.

A) Vampire DBVO Pack
Link above goes to xXFEARTCBXx's DBVO page for Vampire, containing the patches below. Download the top one in this list, then only those you need below it.
<< OBS: FROM THIS LIST, I HAVE REMOVED PATCHES THAT I'VE UPGRADED OR UPDATED.>>

B) Vampire DBVO Expanded
This page you are at now, where you can find all the patches below and latest available versions in the FOMOD under Files.
  • 0 Skyrim Base Game and DLC Fixes 0 <- FOR EVERYONE
  • AdamDunmer's Dialogue Expansions (All found Dragonborn dialogue)
  • A Cat's Life
  • AJO - Andrealphu's Jobs Overhaul
  • Anbeegod's Follower Dialogue Expansion Mods - All Inclusive. Check the date of the patch, covers releases for:
    • Aela v7.0
    • Aranea Ienith v2.0
    • Brelyna v3.0
    • Borgakh v1.1
    • Camilla Valerius v1.0.1
    • Elisif v1.0
    • Eola v0.1
    • Erik v2.0
    • Faendal v1
    • Faralda v1
    • Illia v3.0
    • Jenassa v6.0 (New!)
    • Jordis v1.0
    • Lydia v1.4
    • Mjoll v1.2
    • Rayya v2.0
    • Roggi Knot-Beard v1
    • Sapphire v1
    • Uthgerd v2.0
    • Ysolda v2.0
    • IDE Whiterun - Olfina Gray-Mane v1.0
  • An Evening with Angi
  • Aniya - A custom Voiced Follower
  • Amorous Adventures - All Inclusive Version (Not AA Plus - See list above this one )
    • Amorous Adventures Original (OStim, Flowergirls or Sexlab version don't matter. Same dialogue)
    • Amorous Adventures - Player Dialogue Rewritten (use this bug-free version)
    • Amorous Adventures - Text and Player Dialogue Revision
  • Ashe - Crystal Heart
  • A Secret to Hide
  • A Tale of Blood and Snow (CC)
  • Akela
  • Aran di Kono
  • AW Fjotra Remastered - The Sybil of Dibella
  • Azzan - Standalone Voiced Male Follower
  • Bard's College Excavation (New!)
  • Bards College Expansion (Creation Club)
    • There are three lines you users have to edit in xEdit yourselves since I don't have the mod and thus can't make an ESPFE for you guys. If you just remove the ... in these three lines, they will be voiced as well:
         ...I don't know! This is too nerve-racking.    ...You should give up and let me win.   ...You're stupid! Moreover, remove *yawn* from this line, so that it starts with "How", and it will be voiced as well:   *yawn* How droll. Do all your "witticisms" land with a lackluster squelch?
  • Become High King of Skyrim TNG
  • Beyond Reach (Stand-Alone Remastered Patch) 
  • Beyond Skyrim - Bruma SE (Stand-Alone Remastered Patch)
  • Bjorn - Fully Voiced Follower
  • Blood and Silver - Cidhna Mine Expanded (New!)
  • Blood of the Nord SE
  • Bloodbond + Dialogue Tweaks (New!)
  • Boethiah's Calling - Alternate Questline Patch
  • BUVARP SE RE - Barely Used Vanilla Actors Recycle
  • Celestine
  • Corrected 3DNPC part of EZPG
  • Daegon Legacy
  • Death Consumes All - DLC Quest Mod (Revamped)
  • Denizens of Morthal - Dialogue and Character Expander
  • Destroy The Dark Brotherhood - Quest Exp
  • Dragonslayer - Quest and Fight Expansion (CC) (New!)
  • DV's The Skaafin Prize - Follower
  • East Empire Company Expansion (CC)
  • Environs by Siberpunk (You don't need all three to install the patch)
    • Environs - Hroggar's House
    • Environs - Riften Warehouse
    • Environs - The Shrines of Talos
  • Expanded Towns and Cities SSE
  • Fare Thee Well - Spouses and Children Give Blessings
  • Fortune's Tradehall
  • Frea Reforged Echoes Awakened (A Frea Dialogue Enchantment Mod)
  • Frozen in Time - Definitely Not Another Snow Elf Waifu Mod
  • Geralt of Rivia SSE Voiced Follower
  • Gods and Worship
  • Gore - A Companion Mod + Vigilant Expansion
  • Gravewind
  • Guard Dialogue Overhaul SE
  • Headhunter - Bounties Redone (+ it's Missives patch)
  • Heart of Ice - Astrid. Custom Follower
  • Heart of the Reach
  • Hestra's Nest
  • Hjertsten Hall - Player Home and Settlement
  • Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions and Custom Home Support SE
  • Immersive Follower Dialogue - Lydia
  • Immersive Speech Dialogues
  • Immersive Wenches Dialogue Boost
  • Immersive Wenches Dialogue Rewritten
  • Inigo
  • Infiltration - Quest Expansion
  • Jesper the Guard - A Custom Voiced Follower (From the Series Skyrim Guard Tales)
  • Journey to Baan Malur and Morrowind
  • Kaidan - All Inclusive (See below for content and findings. No ESPFE)
    • Kaidan 2 v2.1.1 by livtempleton on the Nexus
    • Kaidan Extended Edition AIO v3.0.3 on https://kaidanmod.com/ incl. Immersive Features & Survival etc.
    • Kaidan Extended Edition v.15.0 by BarbWireBlonde on the Nexus
    • 2957 lines, where a few lines had ; and 5 or so started with ... that will all be unvoiced unless you edit them and replace them with , and remove the ... Too complicated to patch for me because of inter-dependencies between the mods above, and it will be different for each player's choice of installation. This patch is untested since I am not interested in Kaidan for my male DB. For those whom are interested in fixing things, I recommend learning zEdit, search for the sentences starting with ... and patch/delete those ... from the lines. Secondly, search for ; and switch them to , because then my DBVO patch will voice all those lines as well since I generated them like that. As always, however, if the mod makers have trailing spaces at the end of their DB lines, those need to be deleted as well, but I am not going over 2957 lines manually to do that. In the patch notes for AIO 3.0.3 they evidently fixed some of these though. Lastly, Elevenlabs pronounce "Kaidan" with a little bit of variation. Consider it a feature where the Dragonborn teases Kai or something.
  • Katana - Journey in Shadows
  • Katria
  • Khajiit Will Follow (Forgotten City & Vigilant patches included)
  • Koemia and the Big Bad Wolf
  • Legacy of the Dragonborn SSE
  • Less Generic Housecarls - Argis (Markarth) Dialogue Expansion and Quest
  • Light and Shade
  • M.E.I - Maven Elevnwen Ingun - Followers and Spouses - Quest Expansion Plus
  • Malryn - Custom Voiced Follower
  • Mehrunes Dagon's Shrine Unlocked - PoP Alt Ending
  • Melana the War Maiden - An Evolving Custom Voiced Follower
  • Memory - Daughter of Sotha Sil
  • Meridia's Order
  • Missives
  • More Immersive Player Dialogue
  • M'rissi's Tails of Trouble  (New! Remastered DBVO Patch, no need to keep the old one) 
  • Neiva Deep Water - The Prisoner of the Tides
  • Nether's Follower Framework (NFF) (Beta Version, some silent lines)
  • Nimwraith Quest Mods
    • A Conversation
    • A Good Death
    • A Dizzying Fall
    • Bark and Bite 
    • Before the End
    • Behind and Beyond
    • Blood and Grit
    • Final Farewell
    • Memorable Bounties
    • Mysteries of the Dwemer
    • Painted Torment
    • The Breathing Abyss
    • The Price of Art
    • The Serpent Covenant (New!)
  • Old Blood
  • Order of Aetherius - Mages Guild - Player Home - Followers
  • Orpheus
  • OStim Lovers
  • OStim on Demand
  • OStim Solutions Standalone
  • Pit Fighter plus Revamped and all addons
  • Redeeming Fultheim - A Blades Quest Addon
  • Remiel-Custom Voiced Dwemer Specialist and Companion
  • Remote Interactions
  • Resurgence of the Morag Tong (New!)
  • Return to the Hist - Argonian Burial Caravan
  • Riverwood Trader Is A Mess
  • Sa'chil - Custom Voiced Khajiit Follower
  • Secunda - Princess of Daggerfall - Custom Voiced Follower
  • Serana Dialogue Addon
  • Serana Dialogue Edit
  • Serana Dialogue Expansion
  • Shadows Over Ilinalta
  • Sidequests of Skyrim
  • Simple Hunting Overhaul
  • Simply Knock SE
  • Skyrim Extended Cut - Saints and Seducers
  • Skyrim on Skooma
  • Skyrim's Got Talent - Improve As a Bard
  • Sleepwalking Into A Nightmare - A new Daedric Prince Quest
  • Song of the Green - All Inclusive (Also Vigilant comments, 3DNPC and Kaidan) (Updated to 2.2!)
  • Taeka Elixi - Little Witch Custom Voiced follower
  • Teldryn Serious SSE + A Serious Wedding SSE
  • That Night on the Lake
  • The Dark Brotherhood Resurrection Part 1
  • The Drez'kth'ar Horror (New!)
  • The Gift of Saturalia - A Quest for the Holidays
  • The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal 10th Anniversary Ed. + Betalille's Hammerfell Quests Bundle
  • The Hidden Tomb of Hircine
  • The Iceheart Sisters - Followers - Location - Quests - NPC Comments - Banter
  • The Incredibly Fashionable Sir Dripsalot 
  • The Serpent Pít 
  • The Taste of Death - Quest Addon
  • The Thalmor's Shadow - Taliesin
  • The Thrassian Scare
  • The Tools of Kagrenac
  • The Welkynar Knight - Quest
  • Thieves Guild Requirements (Added lines for Thieves Guild Reformation from its Optional files as well)
  • Thogra gra-Mugur - Orc Follower and Quest
  • Unearthing the Past
  • Unfaltered Virtue - A Penitus Oculatus Story
  • Unmasking Sybille Stentor
  • Val Serano
  • Xelzaz - Custom Fully Voiced Argonian TF
  • Young Lovers
  • Vampire DBVO Remnant Patch (A collection of voice-files for mods with few Dragonborn lines. You don't have to have all installed.)
    • A Better Tomorrow - Replace Maven As Jarl
    • A Cure for the Keeper - A Keeper Carcette Quest Mod
    • A Fond Farewell
    • A Forelorn Hope - an addon for Seeking the Cure (New!)
    • A Lovely Letter Alternate Routes
    • A Milk Drinker Like You
    • A Path to Mephala - The Whispering Door
    • About Roggvir...
    • Additional Contracts For the Dark Brotherhood
    • Alchemical Appraisal Services
    • Auto Sleep For Me Now 
    • Blood on the Ice Redux SE
    • Buyable Golden Claw
    • CAM - Companions at Murmulnir 
    • Candlehearth - An Inn Overhaul
    • Carriages and Stables Dialogue Bundle + Wild Horses Patch
    • Chico The Comedy Khajiit - Reborn
    • Choose Your Own Arch-Mage
    • Citizens of Tamriel OStim patch
    • City Bag Checks
    • Clue Scrolls in Skyrim - Treasure Trails (New!)
    • C.O.I.N. - Treasury Exchange
    • Coldsun's Coralyn
    • Coldsun's Vayne
    • Collecting the Edda (New!)
    • College of Winterhold Fee Tuition (Small mod in Gate to Sovngarde collection)
    • Companions Dialogue Bundle
    • Deceive Degaine
    • Defeat the Dragon Cult
    • Dynamic Mercenary Fees
    • Edmond's A Change in Management - Seamless Transition of Guild Master to Brynjolf
    • Exchange Currency SE
    • Face Sculptor Expanded
    • Falkreath Bathhouse
    • Finding Derkeethus (New!)
    • Followers Ride Horses
    • Granite Hill (the one by SkyKing)
    • Honed Metal
    • Hunters Dialogue Edit
    • Hunters Mark Animal Dens on Map
    • Immersive Rejections 
    • Immersive City Gates
    • Improved College Entry
    • iNeed
    • Jarl Balgruuf Dilemma SSE
    • Kyne's Temple Consequences
    • Landscape and Water Fixes
    • Last Seed - Suvival Needs and Diseases
    • Liara T'soni - Voiced Follower
    • Lucien - Moon and Star Patch
    • More Carriages
    • More to do in the Soul Cairn
    • Morrowind Mint - Currency Swapper for Solstheim
    • Mr Ebony... Get Lost (New!)
    • My Home is Your Home (MHiYH 2plus) - SSE
    • NPCs Wear Amulets of Mara Plus
    • OMerchants
    • Open College (New!)
    • OPrivacy
    • OStim Community Resource
    • Outfit NPCs (Inventory-Equipment) SE
    • Pickups for Farengar - Bleak Falls Barrow Revoice
    • Poetic Duel (New!)
    • Prequel -What Happened Before Helgen-
    • Provincial Courier Service
    • Radiant Assassinations
    • Recruit Aventus to the Dark Brotherhood
    • Relic Hunter - Guildmaster Start (Legacy and ASAL Addon)
    • Report Talos Shrines to the Thalmor
    • Respectful Ravyn
    • Return Aegisbane (New!)
    • Revealing Rune
    • Sarcastic Player Dialogue
    • Save the Icerunner - Lights Out Alternative Routs
    • Sell Unusual Gems - Stones of Barenzia
    • Search and Seizure - Quest Expansion 
    • Serious Civil War Consequences for Jarl Balgruuf
    • Share Your Meal Simplifed And EAS Animated
    • Silence is Golden
    • Simple Fishing Overhaul
    • Simple Inn Bath 
    • Simple NPC Outfit Manager
    • Simple Outfit System
    • Singalongs of Skyrim
    • Skyrim Cut Content Restoration
    • Skyrim Wayshrines
    • Sleep in Lingerie
    • Soldier of Stendarr - Voiced (New!)
    • SRQ Amren Recommendation new quest
    • Stay in Shape - Pumping Iron
    • The Great City of Winterhold SSE Edition 
    • The Quaint Hamlet of Soljund's Sinkhole 
    • Thugs not Assassins
    • Tome Trials - Bardic College Books Exams (New!)
    • Turn in Contraband
    • Unofficial Skyrim Modders Patch
    • Vanilla Hug Dialogue
    • Vilkas Spar Skip (New!)
    • Vittoria's Alternate Wedding
    • Wait Carriage in Inns - Fast Travel Improvements + More Carriage Routes
    • Winterhold Bathhouse
    • Whiterun Battle Brothers
    • Wounds Add-Ons - Healers - Spells - Patches
    • You Got Caught - Cheating reactions


REQUESTS FOR FUTURE PATCHES
If you have patch suggestions, feel free to post them in the comment section. I will likely not reply to those requests since there might be quite a few there over time, but I do promise to read them. Unless I am interested in trying a mod, however, I will not likely patch it on a whim, since doing so is money straight out of my pocket and into Elevenlab's. 

Moreover on that topic, please don't be snarky or entitled. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same thing I am doing. Learn how to do it, it's not that hard, and go spend some money making patches you need for yourself.


INSTALLATION
These should be all the steps to follow. Make sure you meet the requirements for each of the listed mods!

  • Install Dragonborn Voice Over mod via mod manager.
  • Install the Skyrim +DLC patch and all the optional patches you need from Vampire DBVO Pack via mod manager. List A above.
  • Install all the patches you need from the FOMOD on this mod page, mentioned as B above. FOMOD is listed under Files.
  • Make sure the mods are enabled after installation. Also, enable all the DBVO patch plugins too!
  • Your protagonist will still be silent, so don't stop reading here...
  • In game, enable Vampire DBVO Pack in the MCM menu for Dragonborn Voice Over.
  • Your protagonist will now speak. This will be a good time to try it out. As you'll notice, you cannot not see your DB speak yet since the camera is directed at the NPCs. If you want that...
  • (Optional) Install Improved Alternate Conversation Camera, and then spend the time you need to figure out the settings you want.
  • (Optional) In case you think your protagonist is too loud or quiet given your audio set-up, install Dragonborn Voice Over (DBVO) - Plugin Replacer and let it overwrite Dragonborn Voice Over. If you still aren't happy, you can edit the plugin replacer's settings to your liking in xEdit. How to do this can be found in the comment section of that mod, but if I find the time, I could screenshot some instructions and post them here too.
  • (Optional) "But what about combat grunts!" I use xXFEARTCBXx's Vampire PC Head Tracking Pack, which is the second file listed in Vampire DBVO Pack. Play around with the MCM settings for PC Head Tracking and Voice Type SE, removing stuff you don't like. (I recommend disabling menu entry comments since that grows old quite fast)
  • Not working? You may have installed Various Dialogue Tags, which states on it's mod page: "Not currently compatible with Dragonborn Voice Over (DBVO). Further tests have confirmed a solution, but not a priority at the moment."
  • Still not working? Then you may have installed some UI mod and not patched it with the patches available on the Dragonborn Voice Over (DBVO) mod page.
  • Still not working?? Then you are using non-English subtitles, and DBVO doesn't support that unless you get local language mapping json files for each individual mod outside of non vanilla main game dialogue (which has built-in support). This, for your particular language. My advise: Just play the game completely in English. Supposedly this may not have to be a requirement in the future with DBVO 2.0.
  • Lastly, please Track Dragonborn Voice Over here on the Nexus, because Version 2.0 is due with a lot of improvements!
   
   
LIMITATIONS
The way DBVO works, is that when the dialogue window displays a line that the Dragonborn is to say, and you click it, DBVO will pull the exact fuz-file that corresponds with the dialogue shown on the screen. This means, unfortunately, that there are a few limitations for all DBVO voices out there - not just for Vampire.

  • Your protagonist's name is generated by an Alias code, which picks the name you've picked for your DB. This means, however, that there is no fuz-file available that shows that name. In the current version of DBVO, at least, the fuz-files must be named in exact accordance with what the dialogue states on your screen. The only workaround is to generate fuz-files for all instances where the DB speaks his name, in all its many permutations across all the patched mods out there. Unless you get an Elevenlabs account and become a patch-maker yourself, you will simply have to settle for those lines being silent for the time being. There is, however, a Player Names patch with a limited selection on this mod page. The names currently included is listed in the pinned Post.
  • The same issue occurs when there are other Aliases in the dialogue. A prime example for this are radiant quests in Skyrim, which has you go somewhere to kill something and then return to the Jarl's steward to get your bounty. Both the creature and the location are Aliases in those dialogue lines, so unless all such instances are patched somehow - having the DB say something non-specific instead - those lines will also be silent. This can be done with some work, and there are patches out there for other DBVO voices that does this already which I will seek to make for Vampire as well (and have made in the past, I might add.)
  • If a mod-maker puts (These things) in-front/first before the voiced line, DBVO will currently voice the contents within those brackets. If put in the end of the dialogue option on the screen, however, the DBVO tools we patch makers use removes it. Same if the mod maker [uses these], regardless of where they are in the voiced line, they will be generated voiced. Moreover, if there is a backspace at the end of a sentence.( ) <- Like this, the fuz-file doesn't match the dialogue, and the DB is silent. This is the main culprit for why some lines in our patches are unvoiced. Those are simply hard to locate without a lot of manual labour.
  • There is also a current limitation in which any ; is found in the dialogue on the screen, DBVO can't find the fuz-file, and the DB is rendered silent. These instances needs to be patched in order to be voiced. It's not impossible, but like with previous issues, it requires an ESPFE that overwrite the source mod of the dialogue.
  • Finally, there is also a well-known problem that too long fuz file path names prevents Skyrim from launching, as they may exceed a 255ish character limit in their complete file path name on your computer. So, if you installed your game too deeply into your folder structure, you may not be able to use some DBVO patches unless you open those patches and start deleting the longest fuz-files you find there. That, or move your game installation.

That being said, limitations as there may be currently, Skyrim will feel like a new game if you give Dragonborn Voice Over a try! 


AI VOICE
The Vampire voice is an AI voice, and not a hired actor. Market economy dictates that unless there is a voice actor willing to voice the thousands of Dragonborn dialogue lines for all mods out there for the measly money it costs to generate lines for this old game, then AI voices will be used. Not just for sake of cost, but expediency and convenience. The future is here, so adapt to it because tech won't likely regress.

Quality will always be a slight issue, since some lines will come out a bit strange in the context of an interaction or situation, but I think xXFEARTCBXx's Vampire voice hit that perfect balance of being even-keeled to maintain a consistent quality, while not come off as too wooden and unfeeling. AI is good enough for the role Dragonborn Voice Over seeks to fill, but don't expect too much and be pleasantly surprised at the result! 


DISCORD
Both the creator of Dragonborn Voice Over and xXFEARTCBXx have Discord servers in case you are interested to join those.