Wow, this conversation took a lot of tapdancing. I redirected the entire thing to be about Joker harmlessly prodding Traynor about her crush on EDI and sort of encouraging it, instead of this like... pseudo-rivalry, which doesn’t make sense in the current situation what with Joker being with Shepard and all. I think Traynor’s crush on her is really cute and I like the idea of it being talked about more. I considered putting Traynor into Joker’s vanilla spot in the photo but I do not want to touch that mountain of spaghetti again. I am damn proud of that “Since, you know... I’m sleeping with Shepard, now.” line, because that took time to get right and I, personally, think it’s one of the best AI/vanilla splices I’ve done.
I used Speech-to-Speech to puppet the AI’s vocal tone to match that of Green’s original delivery, but substituted the correct word, “I’m,” in. Then, spliced that into the original audio, blending it in with the rest of the words and adjusting the tempo to fit his normal cadence of speech. Basically, it was work, my guy. At one point I was zoomed so far into the waveform in Audacity that I could visually match up the spot where the audio was cut into and make it connect. In a different part of Citadel, there’s another splice that I consider to be of similar quality. I put Shepard’s name in a sentence that doesn’t have it in vanilla and it, again, required a very specific intonation to sound right. It’s paired along with one of the best pure AI lines I’ve done so far, too, and gated behind a few different conditionals. It’s pretty flirty so, like, I’ve made it so to get that version of the lines... One has to have told EDI to encourage Jeff to be more open, one has to have had the culmination scene, and during that scene, one has to have listened to a lot of dialogue... Thus proving you have patience for his nonsense.
