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bloodraven43 has Wasteland 2

Jul 16, 2014 @ 7:37am

what is the option text to speech mean

does it read the text for you out loud....if so...its dosent work correctly

or is it that microsofts speech has to be enabled...i dont get that option in the options menu

hopefully it reads and speaks every word in the game, that would be cool...if not, its cool too

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bloodraven43 has Wasteland 2

Jul 16, 2014 @ 1:13pm

i know the @sea is rolling around in here every now and again...lol

tomimt

Jul 16, 2014 @ 1:57pm

I assume they are planning some sort of synthetisized speech option for the game, but at least for now it doesn't seem to do anything at all.

randir14

Jul 16, 2014 @ 3:40pm

Full voice acting brought to you by Microsoft Sam.

bloodraven43 has Wasteland 2

Jul 16, 2014 @ 5:36pm

COOL...thought that was it...lol

Last edited by bloodraven43; Jul 16, 2014 @ 5:37pm

jtaylor808 has Wasteland 2

Aug 8, 2014 @ 12:49am

When will this be implemented? Any system requirements? I want this sooner than later since reading all the text is tedious and the large text options is not working on my laptop.

ArchAngel

Aug 8, 2014 @ 2:49am

Originally posted by jtaylor808:
When will this be implemented? Any system requirements? I want this sooner than later since reading all the text is tedious and the large text options is not working on my laptop.

Why is it tedious? Do you have a medical condition?

jtaylor808 has Wasteland 2

Aug 8, 2014 @ 12:57pm

Originally posted by archangel:
Why is it tedious? Do you have a medical condition?

Old age

JessieC

Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:20pm

I homne the final version does have it working as an option for cases where lines aren't voiced. It would help some of us out.

Back to the Sam thing. Synthesis has come a long way since then. Look up Cepstral, Nuance, Ivonia, cereproc, etc.

I've had them work well for me with Text adventures (using WinFrotz TTS, an inform interpreter that is set up to make SAPI calls without needing a screen reader.)and Games like The White Chanber that run on engines that support SAPI as well. (in TWC's case I believe it uses the windows TTS API to read out tooltips as everything else is voiced.)

If you have Windows 7 or above, you already have TTS support installed with a voice that's at least better than Sam.

Probably pushing it, but the option to set one SAPI voice for males and one for female would be a nice touch, but I'm not sure how long they want to spend on an option that may only work on Windows.

Last edited by JessieC; Sep 5, 2014 @ 8:11pm

bloodraven43 has Wasteland 2

Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:40pm

Originally posted by sea:
As far as I know, this option only works if you have text-to-speech enabled at the OS level.

so you have to change that before you start the game....pretty cool idea

JessieC

Sep 5, 2014 @ 7:58pm

Ah so it doesn't make SAPI calls, it just makes itself more screen reader friendly? Makes sense. Like I said it would be a bit of work for something that only works with windows.

I'll try playing around with narrator at some point. Haven't had a full screen reader in ages. Remember those things being too explensive without a student discount for someone who's partially sighted to justify.

Last edited by JessieC; Sep 5, 2014 @ 8:05pm

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Lovidion

Sep 21, 2014 @ 2:35pm

Any new info on getting this to work? I'm visually impaired and this would be really helpful for me.

I've tried searching around but it doesn't seem like much is known. I've enable TTS and turned on Narrator. Once I'm in-game though, I don't know how to get it to read the text.

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