According to the folks at ANN, two companies, the speech software developer, Animo, and the anime creation tool software developer Celesys, have joined forces in the hopes of creating a tool that will take good care of all the voice acting, be it in anime, or in certain video games. The said program, which uses Animo’s Free Speech software, will generate all sorts of narration and dialogue lines, all according to the shameless desire of the user. Now I personally don’t have a problem with this, it can probably help independent and/or amator developers in their work by drastically reducing the production fees (i.e. no more money spent on voice actors or on countless hours spent on recording, editing and two tones of coffee), but I do see this… computerization as a step towards consumerism. I’d rather have the lovely and rapeble voice of Yuko Goto whispering naughty things in my year, than a computer generated one, really. Oh well.