Release MQ2Speaker

[eqholic]

Version 1.0 Released

This plugin provides an interface to the Microsoft Speech Synthesizer. The selection of voices is trough the windows control panel (Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Speech Recognition -> Text to Speech)

Commands

/speaker speak Heal me -> Say "Heal me" using the default voice, wait for completion
/speaker speaka Invis faded -> Queue saying "Invis faded", return immediately
/speaker mute -> Toggle the voice on/off
/speaker mute 1/0 -> Set the voice output on/off
/speaker echo -> Toggle the echoing of the voice into the mq2 chat window
/speaker echo 1/0 -> Set echoing on/off
/speaker panel -> Open the Window speech recognition control panel

The settings are stored in MQ2Speaker.ini and default to mute=0, echo=0.

TLO

${Speaker.Muted} Is the voice muted
${Speaker.Echoing} Is the voice echoed
${Speaker.Done} Have all speak requests been spoken
${Speaker.Exists} Is the voice successfully initialized

Technicalities

The state of the voice (for example, rate, pitch, and volume), can be modified using SAPI XML tags that are embedded into the spoken text. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717077(v=vs.85).aspx
The standard selection of voices is rather limited, but more can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27224

Possible further extensions

/speaker nameds 1/0 -> Announce new named spawns
/speaker spawnmasteronly 1/0 -> Like above, but only when on spawnmaster list

 

[toots]

Some raiders might like the option of an interview with event triggers. I.e so and so glares at you> say "hey turn around now"

But mostly sounds like a fun extension of Gina.

 

[Maskoi]

 

[eqholic]

Version 1.0 released.
Now go /bcg //speaker speaka Wake up this is a named

 

[Redbot]

I'm happy to see assistive features for EQ, handy for the rest of us as well. Great work eqholic!

 

[Butters]

How does this work with spawns

Typically MQ2SpawnMaster.ini is like this:

Spawn16=Flamescale Overlord Takarious
Sound16=dkn_f_greet.mp3

I want it to do this:
/speaker speak Flamescale Overlord Takarious

Can I just put this in?:

Spawn16=Flamescale Overlord Takarious
Sound16=/speaker speak Flamescale Overlord Takarious