{"id":77732,"date":"2026-05-10T18:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77732"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:36:27","slug":"his-voice-and-delivery-was-human-darkest-dungeon-dev-says-red-hook-will-never-use-ai-to-replicate-the-voice-of-late-narrator-wayne-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77732","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;His Voice and Delivery Was Human&#8217; \u2014 Darkest Dungeon Dev Says Red Hook Will Never Use AI to Replicate the Voice of Late Narrator Wayne June"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/darkest-dungeon\">Darkest Dungeon<\/a> developer Red Hook Studios has said it won&#8217;t use AI to replicate the voice of deceased voice actor Wayne June.<\/p>\n<p>Studio co-founder Chris Bourassa spoke about how the passing of the iconic narrator will affect the series going forward in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/darkestdungeon\/comments\/1t6ofpm\/comment\/okj65xk\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">a reply to a post<\/a> on the Darkest Dungeon subreddit (via <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/darkest-dungeon-dev-would-never-use-ai-to-copy-deceased-narrators-iconic-voice-2000694393\">Kotaku<\/a>). He told fans to rest assured that Red Hook will &#8220;never, ever erode&#8221; June&#8217;s legacy by using AI to attempt to copy his performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In one of his last emails to me, Wayne gave us permission to train an AI on his voice, something he&#8217;d staunchly opposed prior to the end,&#8221; Bourassa said. &#8220;We&#8217;d never asked to do it. I think he was trying to put the game\/team\/fans first &#8211; offer us a &#8216;way forward.&#8217; I declined, and we donated to his family anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"darkest-dungeon-2-official-launch-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Red Hook <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DarkestDungeon\/status\/1885043495187980748?s=20\">confirmed<\/a> that June had passed away in January 2025. Bourassa shared a message at the time, saying that it was &#8220;one of my life&#8217;s greatest honors to have written for him&#8221; for the 10 years the actor contributed his voice to Darkest Dungeon. He added, &#8220;Though I never got to shake his hand, I knew him to be a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darkest Dungeon developer Red Hook Studios has said it won&#8217;t use AI to replicate the voice of deceased voice actor Wayne June. Studio co-founder Chris Bourassa spoke about how the passing of the iconic narrator will affect the series going forward in a reply to a post on the Darkest Dungeon subreddit (via Kotaku). He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":77734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77736,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77732\/revisions\/77736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}