Quest to Speech (QTS)

Quest To Speech reads quests aloud, as if the NPC were talking to you. Each NPC gets a voice matched to their race and sex, and named characters such as Thrall, Jaina, Brann and Velen speak in their own.

Requires the Spoken Players voicepack

The addon can't speak without it, and the voicepack is a separate download for Windows: https://spokenplayers.sahnet.ee/

Run its setup, then restart WoW.

What's the difference between Quest To Speech and Spoken?

Spoken plays pre-recorded audio, so a quest can only be voiced if a recording exists for it. That doesn't work on Retail, which has far too many quests. Quest To Speech has no recordings: it voices the game's text as you play, using the voicepack's voices.

That makes Quest To Speech the better fit for Retail:

• It isn't limited to quests that have been recorded, because it reads whatever text the game shows
• Quests from new patches can be read straight away, with no new audio to wait for
• Quest givers can say your own character's name, and you can respell it until it sounds right
• It also runs on WoW Forever

What it reads

• Quest story, progress and completion text
• Greetings and gossip
• Stage directions in angle brackets, in a narrator's voice
• Quests with no NPC, such as those started from items, in your own race's voice

Quest titles and objectives aren't read.

Talking-head window

Lines queue up and keep playing after the quest window closes, so you can get on with something else. A small window shows the speaker's animated portrait, their name, the quest title and the words as they're read.

• Skip a line, or stop and clear the queue
• Choose from three sizes
• Drag it wherever you like, and lock it there
• If you use DialogueUI, the window takes on its look in whichever theme you've set (you can turn this off)

Sounds right

• Warcraft names the voices tend to get wrong are respelled before they're read, while the window still shows them as written
• NPCs' own voiced greetings and farewells are muted so they don't talk over the reading (you can turn this off)
• If your character's name comes out wrong, type it the way it sounds on the "Your name" page, and hear it read back until it's right. It's saved per character

Settings and commands

Find the settings under Options > AddOns > Quest To Speech, or type /qts.

• /qts help lists every command
• /qts name opens the "Your name" page
• /qts who shows which voice was chosen for an NPC and why
• /qts voice <model> [speaker#] sets an NPC's voice by hand

Works on Retail and WoW Forever.

Quest To Speech is free software under the GPL-3.0-or-later license. The voicepack is a separate download under its own license.