Geralt will sound like himself in Polish in The Witcher 3’s new expansion, with help from AI. CD Projekt Red worked with the company Respeecher to make Geralt’s Polish lines in Songs of the Past sound closer to the voice actor’s performance in the base game, which came out about a decade ago, Video Games Chronicle reported on November 11, 2026, citing an interview with Game File.
Why it was done
Jacek Rozenek, Geralt’s Polish voice for years, suffered a stroke in 2019 that left him unable to speak. He went back to voice acting in 2022, but it required hours of training every day, and he said he was exhausted after recording for the base game’s next-gen update. When CDPR called him back for the expansion, his voice sounded too different from his earlier work.
How the AI was used
- Rozenek recorded all the new lines as usual
- Respeecher then adjusted them to match the sound of the base game
- Its tools were trained on Rozenek’s earlier Witcher 3 lines, supplied by CDPR
- The actor gave his consent
What they say
Rozenek said he trusts the game’s creators and wants the voice to be as close as possible to how it sounded 12 years ago. CDPR localisation producer Mikołaj Szwed called it an ethical use of AI, with consent and a good purpose, and said the studio only considered it because of Rozenek’s health. CDPR already used Respeecher in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, to create lines for Viktor Vektor’s Polish voice after actor Miłogost Reczek died, with his family’s consent.
This article was written with AI assistance from the sources linked above.
