Say my name

This mod changes vanilla game dialogue audio to make NPCs call you by your custom name, wherever they call you "Dragonborn".

What this is

I've gone through and manually picked out all the lines in the game where NPCs call you Dragonborn (leaving out lines where they speak about dragonborns in general, and such). I've then taken those lines and prepared a batch file that can be dropped into xVASynth, which will re-generate all the lines, but with your own custom name, instead of "Dragonborn". You just need to do a Find+Replace of "___" with your own custom name, in the .csv file (don't use Excel, use notepad or some other text editor, Excel has been known to break the formatting), before running it through xVASynth. You can then drop the output into the game folder, and that's it!

Read the full instructions below for more details.

Demo video

Here's a video showing some places where lines are changed, with some custom player names:

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Full instructions

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Step 1. Download and install xVASynth. You will need the following voices installed, as these are the ones with "Dragonborn" lines:

sk_delphine

sk_femalecondescending

sk_femaledarkelf

sk_femaleeventoned

sk_femalenord

sk_femaleorc

sk_femalesultry

sk_femaleyoungeager

sk_kodlakwhitemane

sk_maleargonian

sk_malebrute

sk_malecommander

sk_maledarkelfcynical

sk_maledrunk

sk_maledunmer

sk_maleeventoned

sk_maleeventonedaccented

sk_maleguard

sk_malekhajiit

sk_malenord

sk_malenordcommander

sk_maleoldgrumpy

sk_maleyoungeager

Step 2. Install the .lip/.fuz plugin for xVASynth, which will also generate the .lip and .fuz files for you. Make sure the .lip format is set to Skyrim, in the app settings, once you enable it

Step 3. Download the batch file from this page, and open it in a text editor such as Sublime Text, or Notepad (not Excel). Do a Find+Replace of "___" with whatever name you want the NPCs to speak out.

Step 4 (Optional - recommended) If your name has strange or unusual pronunciation, you can tell xVASynth exactly how you want it to pronounce it in the generated lines, by adding the pronunciation in the ARPAbet menu. I'd recommend you do this anyway, just to make sure it's always pronounced the same (correct) way. REMEMBER: You need v2. 0 models for this, so make sure you've got the latest voices. Note, you need v2. 1. 1+ of xVASynth to use ARPAbet for names with _ underscores.

Step 5. With Hz set to 44100 in the xVASynth audio settings, drag+drop the batch file into