TypeWhisper

Dictate into the chat instead of typing. TypeWhisper turns your speech into text. With this add-on, a dictation goes straight into the World of Warcraft chat: the chat opens by itself, the text is inserted and sent.

Works in Retail, Classic, Classic Era and Forever.

What you get

• The chat opens by itself. An open chat stays open with what you already typed, so a dictation never closes it or sends half a message.
• A cast bar in the game's own style shows what TypeWhisper is doing: a waveform while you speak, a bar that fills while your speech is transcribed, and a red bar when a dictation is canceled.
• Long messages are split into chat messages of up to 255 bytes, sent one second apart.
• No game commands by accident. A dictated message never starts with a slash.
• Translate your messages: pick a language, and TypeWhisper translates each dictation before it goes into the chat.
• Reply to whispers: press your Reply key, then dictate.

Setup

1. Install TypeWhisper for Windows from typewhisper.com.
2. In TypeWhisper, open Settings › Advanced › Integrations and turn on World of Warcraft. TypeWhisper can install this add-on for you, or install it here.
3. In the game, type /tw to open the add-on's settings: sending, the cast bar, its size and position, and translation.

Dictate with your usual TypeWhisper shortcut while the game is in front.

How it works

Add-ons cannot talk to other programs, so TypeWhisper presses keys that the add-on understands: Ctrl+Shift+F11 opens the chat, and Ctrl+Shift+F8, F9 and F10 drive the cast bar. The add-on binds them as override bindings on top of your own bindings and never saves them. It never changes the chat itself; sending stays with the game's own code.

Settings you change in the game reach TypeWhisper when you type /reload or log out.

Commands

• /tw: open the settings
• /tw test: play a dictation on the cast bar
• /tw move: move the bar; type it again to lock it
• /tw scale 120: set the bar size, from 50 to 200 percent
• /tw reset: put the bar back in its default place