NPCTalk Mod Brings Real-Time AI Conversations to GTA V

NPCTalk, an AI-powered modding toolkit from Universal Modder, lets players hold unscripted, real-time conversations with non-player characters in Grand Theft Auto V. The project’s developers say a free release is coming next week.

Players can speak to characters through a microphone and receive dynamically generated responses in AI-cloned versions of their original voices. The toolkit is designed to make replies reflect a character’s personality, surroundings and circumstances, rather than rely on prerecorded lines and scripted responses.

Universal Modder describes NPCTalk as an open-source project intended to bring similar functionality to virtually any moddable game. The source report says the developers have demonstrated the system, but does not provide further details about the demonstration or the models it uses.