A Bethesda job listing seems to suggest that voice acting on Starfield has begun. At E3 2018, Bethesda's Todd Howard did confirm that the sci-fi RPG is in a playable state after having been in development at the company for a very long time.

Bethesda has posted a job listing looking for a voice designer who will be part of the team "pushing the bleeding-edge of RPG development for the PC and consoles." The designer will help to create and outsource dialogue for Bethesda's next generation AAA games, explains the listing. Bethesda is only working on two announced games, Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6. The Elder Scrolls 6 is still in pre-production which means that the voice designer position is probably for Starfield.

The voice designer will have to respond "efficiently" to voice asset demands from several development teams, test the game's audio systems, get voiceovers ready for the final game state, create original voice audio content from scripts, and more. Candidates for the job need to have at least two years of experience in the game voice audio industry, as well as "excellent" audio engineering skills, and experience in production and the casting of voice actors.

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Other Bethesda games haven't had the best voice acting, and fans will remember the "I took an arrow to the knee" line from The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Bethesda's new voice designer may be able to make sure that lines like that don't make it into Starfield too.

The voice designer job listing does suggest that development on Starfield is going well. However, it doesn't mean that fans will get the game any sooner than expected. Howard has also confirmed that Starfield won't be at E3 2019, with The Elder Scrolls 6 skipping the annual games industry event as well. Starfield may be about to add voice lines but Bethesda isn't ready to show off the game just yet.

Bethesda has also said that Starfield is a next-generation game, so it probably won't be released until the PS5 and the next Xbox are released. These consoles are rumored to be releasing in holiday 2020, so the next generation of consoles and Starfield are all over a year away. For fans who have waited years to hear about Starfield, that may seem like a while but Bethesda may have much to show when it finally shares more about the game.

Starfield is in development for unspecified platforms.

Source: Bethesda