Largest voice-over project in the entertainment industry
- Who
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (Electronic Arts, BioWare and LucasArts, 2011)
- What
- 200000 total number
- Where
- United States
- When
- 20 December 2011
The largest entertainment voice-over project was undertaken for the creation of the LucasArts videogame Star Wars: The Old Republic (Electronic Arts, BioWare and LucasArts, 2011). More than 200,000 lines of recorded voice-over dialogue was performed by several hundred voice-actors for the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), which was first released in some territories on 20 December 2011.
The audio team spent several thousand hours recording dialogue – the longest recording time for any videogame, film or TV programme. Most feature-film screenplays contain fewer than 1,000 lines of dialogue.
Below is a comprehensive breakdown of the achievement: Lines of in-game dialogue: 246,250 lines Number of Actors: 321 Number of characters: 4094 Number of Recording Studios: 17 Unique Alien Languages: 21 VO Sessions: 1600 Post processed VO: 37521 lines USEN words translated: 3,203,829 words VO runtime played consecutively: 982,204 seconds or 272.83 hours or 11.36 days Over 4,000 unique creature/droid sfx 6 original orchestral music hours 90 original cantina music minutes
Below is a comprehensive breakdown of the achievement: Lines of in-game dialogue: 246,250 lines Number of Actors: 321 Number of characters: 4094 Number of Recording Studios: 17 Unique Alien Languages: 21 VO Sessions: 1600 Post processed VO: 37521 lines USEN words translated: 3,203,829 words VO runtime played consecutively: 982,204 seconds or 272.83 hours or 11.36 days Over 4,000 unique creature/droid sfx 6 original orchestral music hours 90 original cantina music minutes