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Fan Audit Finds 236 Hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 Dialogue as Larian CEO Says Studio Didn’t Track It

A fan’s audit of the shipped files tallied nearly ten days of recorded speech, prompting Larian’s boss to say the studio never counted.

Overview

  • Redditor Everwhite-moonlight calculated 236 hours, 55 minutes, and 45 seconds of spoken dialogue from 173,642 files spanning about 2,068 characters.
  • Narrator Amelia Tyler leads with 14 hours, 43 minutes, and 55 seconds across 7,629 files, while Astarion clocks 13 hours, 6 minutes, and 23 seconds and the most lines at 9,658.
  • Shadowheart, Gale, Lae’zel, and Karlach each surpass ten hours of recorded speech, and even tavern voice sets run more than three hours per actor.
  • Swen Vincke acknowledged the team “wasn’t really keeping track” after the dataset went viral across the community and gaming press.
  • The scale matches Larian’s prior claims of a 2‑million‑word script and 240+ performers, with branching choices requiring many bespoke recordings.