Spoken

Expressive, character-driven AI voiceover for WoW Forever and Classic. NPCs speak their quest text and gossip, zones tell their stories, and books read themselves aloud.

Voiced with care:

• Voices fit the character, not just race and gender: a dwarf warrior and a dwarf official don't sound alike.
• A narrator reads quests from objects such as wanted posters, and stage directions like <Advisor Belgrum opens the note.>
• Sounds are performed, not spelled out: *hic* is a hiccup, not "asterisk hic asterisk".
• Names and places are pronounced right, from a pronunciation dictionary.
• A more natural performance throughout.

What's inside

Three modules, each can be switched off in the settings. The voices are not included: install the voice pack for each module you want to hear, or the addon stays silent.

Want everything in English at once? Install Spoken: English instead: it brings this addon and every English pack.

Translations

Translated quests audio packs are not yet available on CurseForge, you can download them from GitHub Releases.

For updates, you can follow our Discord: https://discord.gg/HEGUgn6Yf

More details

• Quests: the quest text plays as the dialog opens, and NPC gossip and greetings are voiced too. Every quest in the log has a Play button.
• Zones: the story of each zone and area in a panel beside the world map, with a picture of the place. An area you discover for the first time is narrated once. Lore of Azeroth browses every story without the map.
• Books: open a book and it reads every page in order, following you as you turn them. Your mail is never read.
• One queue: quest lines, zone stories and books wait their turn; nothing talks over anything. Stop, Replay and Skip from the screen, the minimap button or a key binding.
• Your choice of display: subtitles low on screen with the speaker's picture, a small window, the large classic window, or voice only.
• The game makes room: music, ambience and NPC voices are turned down while a line plays.
• Interface in nine languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and both Chinese scripts.

Coming from the separate downloads?

Spoken Quests, Spoken Zones and Spoken Books are no longer separate downloads. Install this one, then uninstall those and delete the SpokenQuests, SpokenZones and SpokenBooks folders from Interface\AddOns. Your voice packs keep working.

Settings and commands

Game Menu → Options → AddOns → Spoken, or /sp options.

/sp            stop or replay the line
/sp skip       skip the current line
/sp stop       clear the queue
/sp options    settings
/sp reset      put the window and subtitles back in place
/sp share      how to send gathered lines
/spq, /spz, /spb   each module's own commands

Contributing

Bugs. Something wrong with a line, a wrong voice, a mispronounced name or a broken quest? Press the bug button on the subtitle or the window while the line plays. It hands you a short link to that exact line; the page has the text, the audio and a form.

Missing lines and corrections. When Spoken has no voice for something on screen, it shows a Contribute button that hands you a link carrying the game's text; open it and press Send. Or turn on Gather missing lines automatically in the settings, play as usual, then upload SavedVariables/SpokenContributions.lua at spoken.rusty.one/contribute. Text that reads wrong can be corrected the same way. Nothing leaves your game until you send it yourself.

Code. The addon is open source on GitHub: issues and pull requests are welcome.

Voices and translations. Want to help a voice sound right, or the addon read well in your language? Come to the Discord.

FAQ and troubleshooting

Q. Can you add controls for faster playback, like 1.25x/1.5x
A. Unfortunately, I can't. The game doesn't allow addons to control playback speed. I will try to release a sped-up version on GitHub Releases in the future.

Q. Why does pausing/resuming restart the line?
A. The game doesn't allow addons to pause a track, only fully stop and restart.

Q. Are you planning to support Retail/MoP?
A. The scope of post-Cataclysm changes is too big to implement at the same quality, so it's not planned.

Q. What about TBC/WotLK?
A. Changes there are more additive, so it's theoretically possible, but not planned yet, as I am focused on polishing the Era and Forever experience first.

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