Changelog

3.0.0 — the big voice update (October 2026)

The biggest update SpeakStone has ever had. Almost the whole voice library has been redone, and there is more of it than ever: over 103,000 voiced lines, nearly 350 hours of audio.

Better voices, everywhere

• Nearly every NPC sounds better. More than 55,000 lines have been re-voiced, and characters now speak with far more emphasis and personality instead of a flat read.
• Exclamations sound natural now.
• Big improvements to sound quality across the whole library: cleaner, clearer audio.
• Voices match the character better. Race and sex have been checked for every voiced NPC: no more female characters with male voices (or the reverse), and races now sound like their race (draenei no longer sound human, goblins no longer sound like gnomes, and so on).
• Children now have a child's voice.

More to hear

• Nearly 10,000 brand-new lines, including quest progress and hand-in lines that used to be silent and gossip for NPCs that had none.
• New voices for peoples who had none: Earthen, Vulpera, Tuskarr, Centaur, Broken, Nerubians, Brokers, Ethereals, Ankoan, Taunka, Vrykul, Dredgers, Sylvar and Faeries.
• More narration for books and for creatures that speak without a race of their own.

Fixes

• NPCs no longer read out long lists of quest rewards.
• Voices that sounded rushed or slowed down have been redone.

Also in 3.0.0 (folded in from the unreleased 2.0.7)

• Lots more in-game gossip found and voiced, thanks to data shared by players.
• Lots more books found and voiced, and a new book view for reading and listening to in-game books.
• A new narrator voice, and quality-of-life improvements across the add-on.

Thank you

A huge thanks to everyone who shared their game data: AuthenticSenpai, silvy, Pappnase, illset, Benny McBackstab and Vanadan, plus everyone who contributed anonymously. Thanks as well to Benny McBackstab and Pappnase for reporting voices that didn't match their NPCs. Report a voice, lend your own voice or send in quest text at https://speakstone.beanw.co.uk.

SpeakStone plays voices similar to the in-game NPCs. Unofficial; not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.