Seeing how it's been confirmed the other day that there are 70 different voices in Skyrim and there are 10 races in Skyrim, logically you would think..."Hmm. Seven voice actors per race? Not bad." That's what I think anyway. Just hopefully there's not too many NPCs of the same race, except in major cities of course, in areas making it possible to hear the same voice from at least 3 different NPCs. But as a reminder, seven voices per race is just my assumption. But on the other hand more of them may Nords, hence the game title "Skyrim". So say 25 of the actors do the Nord voices and then you have 5 voices for each of the other races...yeah, that makes more sense. But the main thing I hope for is that Bethesda chose wisely in who they hired and did a great job doing it. Opinions?

Remember beggars in Oblivion? They had a different persuasion and rumor voice than the begging lines. I hope it's not like that. :shrug:

I'm guessing about 5 or 6 actors per race and 10-20 'special' voices. Not as much as I would have liked, but far better than Oblivion. I've thought about it and I am an idiot

Weren't they all by the same voice actor, though?

Well that's a possibility, the same people doing different accents.

Well, consider that Esbern will most likely have his own voice actor, and some creatures, such as dragons or giants, if they can talk might have their own as well.

In fallout the woman who played Moira Brown did a bunch of other voices too. You could just barley tell it was her. I would not be surprised if the voice actors did something different with their voices, personality wise.

Luke think's its going to be 6 per race. 2 for children, 2 for younger folks and 2 for older folks, which leaves about 10 for Dragons/Important folks.

Let's not forget the Dragons they too will have a voice.

well there could be many more. most voice actors can do more than one voice. i heard there were only 14 for oblivion!

Maybe lower, middle, and upper class voices are different for each race?

We don't know how many unique voice actors the main quest and faction characters will call for.

6 voices per race (3 male 3 female) and 10 unique voices reserved for special characters in game?

Its not necessarily just 1 voice per actor right?

Im sure a lot of these VA's can do multiple voices

Posterboy Dovahkiin has the young Nord voice.
In the G4 video, the bearded guy, you can kind of make out the Nord voice from oblivion.
And you know there are going to be children. So that's another voice

Heres a question

I remember reading somewhere that Skyrim had over 60,000 lines of dialog, but i read in a recent article that it only had 47,000.
Which is right is my question?

Oh and 70 voice actors is a giant step up from oblivion!

It will probably be more like ~30 of them are specific characters, while there are like 5 generic voices per race. That's far better than the 10 unique characters, and 5 generic voice actors that Oblivion had.

One actor can do more than one voice. Sure, Oblivion was overkill in that regard, but the number of voices isn't limited to the number of actors.
http://georgeledoux.com/audioclips/characterdemo/

With that many voice actors, plus the additional voices each actor can do, I'm betting we're looking at 2-5 different voices PER ACTOR, minimum.

Multiply that by around 60, giving leeway for about 10 "special" single-voiced, unique characters, and you've got quite the collection of talent and possibilities.

My personal guess based on those numbers is that we'll hear roughly 200-400 "unique voices" in Skyrim.

I could be pretty far off, but I would bet that's a fair estimate. I certainly hope it's the truth.

Voice actors can create multiple impersonations. Don't expect one voice from each actor.

forget it

Double ninja FTW

I wouldn't expect the children actors to do multiple voices.

Good news!

I can see there being number of unique character voices. Esbern is one, probably 1 or 2 for dragons that we talk to, maybe another 7 associated with the main quest... have another 10 for major characters (ie, Archmage, Gray Fox equivalent, etc..)...

Comes out to 50 "generic" voice actors. 5 per race, as well as different vocal capabilities among each voice actor as well.

Capital!

Maybe. That's assuming they're actually done by children. And that's also assuming those children VA's can't do variations in voice or accent.

Not necessarily. Women can voice some of the younger males.

I never find that authentic.

Really, you wouldn't need extra voice actors to fix that, just include lines specific to beggars for those subjects, or if Bethesda didn't want to do that, they could just, you know, disable those topics for beggars.

But back on the subject at hand, 70 voice actors probably includes the voices of characters who get unique voices, such as Esbern, and the voices of dragons and other entities that are not among the default playable races but still need to speak, and since we don't know how big those numbers are, it's impossible to predict how many voice actors that leaves for generic race voices, but I'd say that AT LEAST we can expect each race to have a distinct voice for males and females, rather than being like Oblivion where some races shared voices (Nords and Orcs, Khajiit and Argonians, and all elves, namely.) hopefully, we'll also hear more characters with unique voices than Oblivion, though, and hopefully they turn out to be less underused than the Emperor. If you're going to go out of your way to hire Patrick Stewart for your game, you really shouldn't have the character he voices be someone who dies within the first half hour of gameplay.

Yeah I would expect the children's voices to be done by 10 different voice actors. Maybe less if one of them have really good voice talent.