Eloquence

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.

Only you see it

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

Want your own speech to go out in dialect so others see it too? One opt-in setting.

Five filters:

Three run out of the box:

Dialectician -- the accents themselves, one per race

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

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

It respects what other people wrote

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

Names -- Zethrrel and Zettle both survive exactly as written

Deliberate accents -- no' never becomes nae'

OOC asides -- anything in parentheses, (single) or (( double ))

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.

What you get out of the box

Dialects apply to say, yell and emote. 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. Sending in dialect is a separate opt-in.

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

Getting started

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

A note on Darnassian - thanks to the community maintaining this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bD2qSEdWweR7xfIqUx_Iewv_4F40gboM-6ViSgfn1O8

The Night Elf dialect carries a glossary of canon Darnassian -- Ishnu-alah, Shaha lor'ma, Fandu-dath-belore? -- drawn from the community-maintained translation list. Only the confirmed entries; nothing invented.

Eloquence revived