When Geralt speaks Polish in Songs of the Past, The Witcher 3’s third expansion due in 2027, some of what players hear will have passed through an AI voice tool. According to a report by Game File published on November 11, 2026, CD PROJEKT RED decided, with the actor’s blessing, to pair new recordings by Geralt’s longtime Polish voice actor Jacek Rozenek with AI so that they blend in with his original performance.
Why the studio made an exception
Rozenek recorded roughly 10,000 lines for the base game in 2014, followed by Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. In 2019 he suffered a stroke, and while he returned to record a handful of lines for the game’s next-gen update in 2021, his voice today is lower and rougher than it was a decade ago.
That is a problem for an expansion like Songs of the Past. The story, which sends Geralt to Letten to look for Dandelion, is set in the same period as the main game, and new dialogue will sit right next to old recordings, including Geralt’s existing reactions, battle cries and one-liners. Game File reports that the studio, through localization producer Mikołaj Szwed, invited Rozenek in to hear how his voice sounds now, and that the session confirmed new lines would likely not match. The studio then turned to an AI company it had worked with once before. Rozenek told Game File that he trusts how the studio is handling it.
What the AI actually does
Follow-up coverage from Beebom names the company as Respeecher and says Rozenek still records every new line himself, with the AI adjusting those recordings afterwards to bring them closer to his original Witcher 3 performance. Respeecher’s model is said to be trained on his existing lines from the game. Beebom also reports that the change only affects the Polish version, and that Doug Cockle, Geralt’s English voice, will record without any AI adjustments. CD PROJEKT RED has not published its own statement on the details, so treat those specifics as reported rather than officially confirmed.
This would not be the first time the studio has used the technology. Respeecher was previously used to recreate the Polish voice of Viktor Vektor in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, with the family’s permission, after actor Miłogost Reczek passed away.
Songs of the Past in 2027
Songs of the Past was announced in May 2026 and is planned for 2027, ahead of The Witcher 4 in 2028. Until then, the Witcher 3 hub has the quests, characters and monsters from the base game and both expansions, and the Build Planner is ready for your next playthrough of the Remastered version.
