Montgomery Announces Britain's Surrender | BBC 1945 (TNO)

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery announces Britain's surrender from Leeds.

[Epentibi]

This is my first video and I wasn't at all serious about it myself. It was just goofing around with the voice cloner, obviously there's a lot of issues you could point out there and then and if I had to remake one now it'd be a lot better, but hey let's just enjoy it (or not).

[mitchhosking]

The AI's stiltedness does this one some favors. It almost makes Montgomery sound like he's being put up to say this by force.

[SuperValue]

Crazy how in TNO timeline, this broadcast was made just 26 years after the peak of the British Empire.

[leeboy]

Not the first person in history to spend a few days in Leeds and feel like surrendering.

[doctorbobcat]

This is very cool, but I think it also shows that voice AIs so far have been mostly design to emulate American accents. In both the announcer and Montgomery you can hear a bit of an American accent on some words, like an American attempting a British accent. (Obviously, this isn't something you can really help, but I just found slightly noticeable.)

[hinsonbob]

When you are a British soldier fighting in the front and you hear this announcement:

[shepherd]

Montgomery says that 'her majesty' and her family were evacuated to canada, is this just a mistake or is this a deliberate decision, maybe king george died in the blitz whilst staying in london and elizabeth had to ascend to the throne

[leotard]

one of the harder hitting parts of this is that historically montgommery was a very energetic and loud man so hearing him so baseless and dejected is a subtle but definitive sign something is very wrong

v good video, your editing fucks

[kapatidtomas]

I gotta admit, although the emotions of the AI voice aren't very expressive and does sound like he's forced to make a message, I've got to say and not deny that it got Montgomery's voice on point realistically still. This is such a well made alternate history scenario video, most of your videos are, well done.

[ithinkinoahguy]

I strangely find the that fact that he repeats the line "it is with a heavy heart and profound sadness that i bring this to you" twice, quite emotional, its as if he's stopped reading a script and spoke freely at the end, dumbfounded at what to say next he cant think of anything but to say the same thing again, stuttering the second time.

[nowhereman]

This is the only use of AI to make art that I approve of.

[vedantdesai]

To think that every time a peace conference happens in HOI4, something like this is played on the radio. I haven’t even played TNO, but I play a lot of vanilla where I win WW2 as Germany. For me it’s just moving divisions and painting the map. But every time a nation surrenders, millions of people hear statements like this

[gregbeyer]

I'm going to play this for all the old people at the care facility who thought that Germany lost the war.

[adrielsebastian]

0:57 I had to do a double take at the HM the Queen line. That means King George VI was probably killed in a Luftwaffe bombing and Elizabeth became Queen... at the age of 19.

Or it just meant HM Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and young Elizabeth and Margaret.

[sjrescapades]

There is a risk that in 20, 000 years time an archaeologist sifting through ancient servers after the devastation of world war 3 and a rise in sea levels thinks this was a real event.

[danw]

His accent is wayyy too transatlantic. In fact, it sounds more American than British much of the time 😄

[theflipgaming]

Excellent work on elaborating the TNO lore 👍

[ImColombiaa_]

just an idea: this would be better if there were long pauses between disturbing news, it'll make it more realistic imo

[Naturewalkingthrough]

“They think the war is over; but they are dead wrong!”

[bongerworld]

That American accent wouldn't fool George Formby