Every character speaks with their race's accent.

Eloquence reads the race of whoever is talking and renders their chat to match. A Dwarf sounds like a Dwarf:

I don't know if that will work, friend. -> Och, whit noo. Ah dinnae ken if that wull wirk, laddie.

26 dialects, covering the full modern roster rather than just the classic thirteen -- and at heavy strength, six of them speak real Warcraft languages.

By default Eloquence changes only what you read. Nothing you type is altered, and nobody else is affected.

Your own speech is a single three-way setting -- Show my chat in dialect to:

• Off -- your own lines appear exactly as you typed them.
• Only me -- you see your character's accent in your own chat frame. Nothing you send changes and nobody else is affected.
• Everyone -- your messages are rewritten before they are sent, so everyone reads them in dialect.

Three run out of the box:

• Dialectician -- the accents themselves, one per race, plus canon vocabulary at heavy strength
• The Spell Book -- spelling, repetition, ALL-CAPS
• Decompression Engine -- expands MMO and Warcraft acronyms

Two are off until you want them, because they rewrite a lot and are a matter of taste:

• Mouthwash -- profanity to euphemism
• Fantasy Writer -- modern turns of phrase into something that belongs in Azeroth

Two more describe your own character rather than anyone else's -- Lisp and Muffle -- and have a section of their own below.

Each has light, medium and heavy settings, and each can be switched on or off independently.

Turn the Dialectician up to heavy and six races start salting their speech with their own language:

Well met, friend.          ->  Throm-Ka, friend.
Safe travels.              ->  Al diel shala.
The spirits are angry.     ->  De loa be angry.

These sit behind heavy deliberately. A whole message peppered with untranslated words stops being flavour and starts being unreadable, so at light and medium strength you get the accent without the vocabulary. Pick the Immersive preset, or set the Dialectician to heavy yourself.

Every entry is attested. Each one traces to Blizzard's own material -- quest text, NPC voice lines, Warcraft III -- and nothing has been invented to pad a list out. The Darnassian glossary comes from Darnassian (Canon) Translation, a community-maintained document that keeps confirmed translations separate from speculative ones; only the confirmed side is used. Thanks to everyone who compiled it.

That discipline is also why some races have no glossary at all. Dwarves, Gnomes, Draenei and Tauren get none, because Blizzard never wrote enough of those languages to draw on -- Gnomish has no attested vocabulary whatsoever, and the Draenei words that do exist only ever appear inside place names like Shattrath. Inventing some would have been easy and would have made them no more canon than a fan dictionary. Their accents carry them instead.

Race decides how a character sounds. Class decides what they would never say.

A Human farmer saying "By the Light" is fine. A Human death knight saying it is not -- they are a corpse that kept its will, and the Light is the thing that burns. So a class layer sits on top of the race:

It removes rather than replaces. A Dwarf death knight stops invoking the Light and carries on speaking broad Scots -- the accent still belongs to the race, and only what clashes is gone.

Nine classes so far. Death Knight, Warlock and Demon Hunter all have reason to avoid the Light, and Paladin leans into it. Priest, Shaman, Druid, Monk and Mage each have an idiom of their own -- vows and the care of souls, asking the elements rather than commanding them, seasons and the balance, breath and form, and precision with a licence. A Dwarf paladin, priest and mage no longer sound like the same person.

Warrior, Rogue, Hunter and Evoker have none, deliberately: they say nothing their race would not, or their race already says it. If you would rather they all did, untick Adjust speech for the speaker's class in the options, or /elo class off.

A Night Elf raised in Ironforge sounds like Ironforge. A Forsaken who was Gilnean in life kept the vowels. So you can pick which dialect your own character speaks in, whatever the game says your race is:

/elo speak dwarf      ->  Ah dinnae ken if that wull wirk, laddie.
/elo speak reset      ->  back to your own

Every one of the 26 dialects is on the list, and the class layer can be chosen the same way with /elo speakclass -- a paladin raised among warlocks, or a death knight who never lost the Light. Both are in the options panel under Dialects, as I speak as and and as a.

This changes only how you sound. Everyone else is still rendered by their own race, and nothing you choose here affects what anybody else reads from anybody else.

Two filters describe your character's mouth rather than anyone else's:

• Lisp -- for characters who want the impediment.
• Muffle -- for a closed helm, a diving suit, or anything else between you and the air.

Yes, stand aside friend.   lisp   ->  Yeth, thtand athide friend.
                           muffle ->  Yeh, hnann ahine mrienn.

Both are off by default and apply only to what you send -- never to what you read. You cannot see what anyone else is wearing, and lisping a stranger's chat would be putting words in their mouth.

Because they change what you send, they need Show my chat in dialect to set to Everyone. Turning one on without that says so rather than quietly doing nothing.

Muffling keeps each word's shape and length. Collapsing everything to mmmph would be more realistic and impossible to roleplay against.

An emote is narration with your character's speech quoted inside it, and only the quoted part is being said out loud:

/e holds out a flower. "I don't know if you will like it, friend."

   holds out a flower. "Ah dinnae ken if ye wull like it, laddie."

The narration stays in plain English, because it is prose written about your character rather than by them -- accenting it reads as though the narrator had the accent. An emote with no quotes is pure action, and is left completely alone.

Only the accent is held back that way. Spelling, acronyms and profanity still apply to narration, since a typo is a typo wherever it sits.

Double quotes mark speech, curly ones included. Apostrophes are far too common in accented text -- no', dinnae, Lok'tar -- to treat as delimiters.

On a roleplaying realm, how somebody spells things is a choice. Eloquence never touches:

• Names -- Zethrrel and Zettle both survive exactly as written, and so do titles in front of them: Lady Jaina, Master Aelric, King Anduin. If your character is called Hope or Storm, their name is left alone too.
• Deliberate accents -- no' never becomes nae'
• How you address people -- friend, brother, sister, kin all stay as you typed them. The addon cannot see who you are talking to, so it does not guess their gender, their age or whether they are your kin. (Dwarves are the exception, and unrepentant about it.)
• OOC asides -- anything in parentheses, (single) or (( double ))
• Register tags -- [low], [Thalassian], [to the crowd]
• Links, colour codes and URLs -- passed through intact

The Spell Book stays off other people's chat unless you ask for it, because correcting a stranger's spelling means sanding off authored voice rather than tidying a typo.

And it never writes anyone's roleplay for them. Eloquence changes how a line is worded, never what was said. It will not add an emote, an action, or a line of dialogue your character did not type -- a dialect renders an accent, and what your character does is yours to write.

• Dialects apply to say, yell and emote, with emotes handled as described above. Party, raid, instance and guild stay plain: "interrupt now, bloodlust on pull" is not roleplay, and dialecting it just makes the useful chat harder to read.
• Whispers are left alone too. In-character whispering is conventionally done in /say opened with a [low] tag, so nearby characters get the chance to overhear. That leaves the whisper channel itself carrying out-of-character talk.
• Chat bubbles above characters' heads are rewritten as well, not just the chat frame.
• NPCs are not dialected unless you ask -- the Immersive preset turns that on.
• Nothing you type is changed unless you ask for it. Show my chat in dialect to is one setting with three states: Off, Only me, Everyone.

Four presets to start from: Roleplay (the default), Immersive, Clean chat and Off.

Install and log in. The defaults are already the Roleplay preset.

• /elo -- open the options
• /elo preset rp -- apply a preset
• /elo doctor -- diagnose anything that looks wrong

Free and open source (MIT): github.com/Zethrel/Eloquence

The muffle and lisp filters exist because Sleat -- Argent Dawn (EU) asked for them. Class flavour exists because Môrgrith -- Argent Dawn (EU) pointed out that his death knight had no business invoking the Light. The Darnassian dialect owes most of its accuracy to Trustbough -- Argent Dawn (EU), who also asked whether a character could speak in a dialect other than their own race's -- which is where I speak as came from. The Void whispers were reported by Anadelonbrin -- Argent Dawn (EU), creeped out by the voices in her head, and Vynlor -- Argent Dawn (EU), saying creepy stuff -- both due to a void elf bug. Feedback like that is welcome.

A revival of the classic Vanilla-era RP chat addon, by Zethrel -- Argent Dawn EU. If you'd like to support further work: ko-fi.com/zethrel