New Female Guard Voices (2024)

Did you know that every single female guard and soldier in Skyrim has the same voice type (Female Nord)?

Well not any more. New Female Guard introduces two original voices - Female Guard for the Stormcloaks side and Female Breton for the Imperials.

Features

Will say anything a regular guard will say, including vanilla quest lines and scenes, with more than 2000 lines of audio included
50+ original lines added
New guards will spawn anywhere a regular guard will
Integrated compatibility and voice lines for a number of popular mods with patches available for others
Voice sample included so you can clone the voice and use it for your own expansions and other mods
Idle comments - guards will now talk to themselves and 'sing' if you're not too close to them
Directional bump dialogue - guards will say different things if you bump into them from the front or the back
Six new high poly faces for those that use helmet removing mods, three Nords for Stormcloak side and Imperial, Redguard and Breton for the Imperial side
Includes features from several of my other mods including going to sleep comments and snoring

Compatibility

The mod adds (by script) the new guard voice types to the following FormLists - DefaultNPCVoiceTypes, GuardVoiceTypes & VoicesCommonCombatant.

This means that any mod that uses one or more of these as a condition may need patching. otherwise you will get blank lines where the subtitles will say something but there is no audio.I've tried my best to ensure wide compatibility but it's highly possible that I've missed something.

If this is the case you have five options -

Put up with the blank lines
Make a patch yourself to block out the lines (instructions included in the article)
Generate the audio for the lines yourself using a TTS service
Kindly ask the mod author of the incompatible mod to make a patch (but don't expect them to)
Ask me to make a patch (but I can't promise that I will do it quickly, if at all)

I've generated all the lines for the following mods, so if you have them installed, my guards will say the lines from these mods -

Farts of Skyrim ("Here, this is for you" lines and follow up comments)
Extended Guard Dialogue - lines for both the ESP version and the ESL version are included.
Guard Dialogue Overhaul
City Bag Checks
Misc Dialogue Edits

If you have my mod Inn-Tegrated NPCs - Oblivion Style Conversations then you should see some of the new guard types as off-duty guards.

Installation

Simply install like you would any other mod using your favourite mod manager. Should be safe to install mid-game.

Patches

I've also added patches in optional files as follows;
Unisex Empire.
More to Say - City Guards - blocks my mod from the extra lines added by More to Say.
More to Say - Guard Encounters - blocks my mod from the extra lines added by More to Say.
Guard Dialogue Overhaul - blocks several lines. The patchcurrently only works with the ESP version of GDO and not the ESL version. Not tested with GDO Redux.See spoiler for more details.

Spoiler:

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I'm currently using the older version of Creation Kit with no plans to 'upgrade' it. I've tried to open the GDO ESL version in CK (after taking the recommended steps in xEdit) and it simply won't open. If someone wants to make a patch, they're welcome to, but currently as it stands I am not able to provide this patch. All that needs to be done is to mirror the GetIsVoiceType / FemaleNord == 0 lines to also exclude FemaleBreton and FemaleGuard voice types.