You Can Now Drop Grogu Sounds Into Your Game Chat With Voicemod
Grogu has entered the chat.
Your Discord calls and livestreams are about to get a lot more Mandalorian, because Voicemod, the Spain-based company behind a popular voice changer and soundboard app, has signed a licensing deal with Disney to bring official Star Wars sounds to gamers and streamers (Deadline).
The first two packs are based on this summer's The Mandalorian and Grogu, with one built around Din Djarin and the other dedicated entirely to Grogu, and both became available on October 30 (CGMagazine).
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Here's the final trailer for the movie these sounds come from.
What do you actually get?
Each soundboard comes with 20 quotes and sound effects from the movie. You can buy them one at a time for $9.99 each, or $7.99 if you pay for Voicemod's premium plan (Deadline). Once a pack is connected, you trigger the clips with individually designed icons while you play, stream or chat with friends on platforms like Twitch.
Voicemod says it has approximately 5.7 million monthly active users. CEO Jaime Bosch told GamesBeat that people use clips "to express an emotion, almost like an emoji," and that they treat them the same way you would treat an emoji in a chat (Deadline).
Will it make you sound like Mando?
No, and that detail is important. Voicemod's app is capable of transforming your voice, but the Disney packs only let you play and share the official prerecorded clips (Deadline). That means you'll be firing off Din Djarin's real lines at just the right moment during a match. (Your squad will still hear a lot of Grogu coos either way.)
That limitation makes sense, since Disney has been licensing its characters to newer technology companies while Hollywood is still divided on how artificial intelligence should handle famous voices. Sticking to authentic clips from the movie avoids that entire controversy.
What's coming next?
More Star Wars packs are planned, and Marvel characters are on the way too, though neither has a date yet (Deadline). The Mandalorian and Grogu hit theaters on May 22 and earned $345.8 million worldwide, and it's been streaming on Disney+ since September 2 (Wikipedia).
My read is that $9.99 is expensive for 20 clips, although this is exactly the kind of collectible that dedicated Star Wars fans will happily pay for, because a perfectly timed "This is the way" in a group chat hits harder than any emoji ever could. I'd love to see a classic trilogy pack next, because a Darth Vader breath button is begging to exist. If you want more Mando before then, the movie's art book arrives on November 3.
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Images are official promotional art and stills from The Mandalorian and Grogu, from Lucasfilm.
