Text to Speech

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Introducing TTS to World of Warcraft will help many people with reading-related issues get a better handle on what’s being said in-game.
So why text to speech doesn’t read quests, or is there any option that I haven’t seen that allows it, if not what ridiculous half implemented feature is this?

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I would imagine that doing it for quests is a consideration that goes a bit beyond the immediate intent of text-to-speech.

If you consider doing it for quests, then you might also consider using actual voice actors, and you might even consider revamping the whole storytelling format all-together so it doesn’t rely so much on text – as various other games have opted for.

And it might also be that design-wise the distinction between quest-related text and semi-quest-related text is a bit blurred, and where do you draw the line then, if at all? Should you then also have text-to-speech for tooltips and NPC dialogue?

Maybe Blizzard are just starting with text-to-speech where it’s straight-forward and simple to implement. And then if it’s useful and people like it, then they can tackle all the troublesome text in the game on a broader level afterward.

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Never tried this, but seems to have been updated for SL;

Edit, was supposedly to be a TTS feature for 9.1;

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I haven’t tried it either but I looked at it some time ago as I struggle to read the quests (that squiggly font on the yellow background). Apparently it uses Windows built in text to speech functionality.

I found a different addon called Storyline which displays quest text in bigger font with light text against a darker background (much easier to read). It also allows for keyboard options for dialogue and Accpeting and Completing quests which is handy as mouse pointers can be fiddly.

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Could anyone possibly mod using imported voices for text to speech. i wanna listen to eminem

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