VoiceOver Redux HQ Audio: All

Install this and get the lot. It holds no audio itself — it is a few kilobytes that pulls in all four sound packs as dependencies, so your addon manager fetches them for you.

You still need the player: VoiceOver Redux. That addon speaks the lines, the packs are the lines, and neither does anything alone.

The packs

Most players want less than this. An Alliance character only ever hears Alliance + Shared Quests, a Horde character Horde + Shared Quests, and Gossip is optional chatter on top — so picking two packs saves a large download of dialogue your character can never reach.

Downloading the zip by hand gets you the stub and nothing else. Dependencies are something the CurseForge app and WowUp resolve; a manual download cannot. Install the four packs directly in that case.

Why the audio is split at all

A quest belongs to a side when its questgiver does: an NPC hostile to the Horde and friendly to the Alliance hands out Alliance quests. Givers who talk to both sides — the goblins in Booty Bay and Gadgetzan, and every other neutral hub — land in Shared Quests, so their lines play for everyone.

What this is

A rework of the original VoiceOver addon, which makes NPCs speak their quest text. Main changes:

• voices are matched per NPC flavor, instead of just race and gender, so a dwarf warrior and a dwarf official don't sound alike
• object quests are also voiced now, using a narrator voice
• stage directions (<Advisor Belgrum opens the note.>) are read by the narrator
• proper voicing of sounds — <hic> produces the sound of a hiccup, not the word
• tons of pronunciation fixes
• more natural-sounding performance

The audio is Ogg Vorbis rather than MP3 as of 1.2.0, which is most of why the packs are a fraction of the size they used to be for the same lines. Nothing was re-recorded.