Amid ongoing concerns of AI acting in and outside of video games, Huzaifa Khan writing for Very Ali Gaming has stumbled on an EA games patent with some...very interesting implications. Namely, the EA games patent in question ("Generating speech in the voice of a player of a video game") is made with the goal of allowing for in-game characters to be fully voiced by the player.
In order for this functionality to work properly, lots of "input data" (meaning mostly speech samples, but also text samples) is required. Based on the patent, it seems like these goals could be accomplished either within game design or by sourcing external data (including from a server during gameplay).
