WoW Classic AI Add-On Gives Old-School MMO Full Voice Acting For The First Time
World of Warcraft Classic now has something that still isn't present in the modern version of Blizzard's MMORPG: full NPC voice acting.
Those who play WoW or have in the past are likely all too familiar with reading massive walls of quest text, with voice acting typically being reserved for faction leaders, raid bosses, or single lines of dialogue when interacting with minor NPCs. Though more recent expansions, like Dragonflight, do feature more cutscenes and dialogue than in WoW's early days, the vast majority of the game's NPCs and quests are not voiced.
That's where the fan made add-on called VoiceOver comes in. Created by Evan Pierce (who goes by MrThinger), the free VoiceOver addon for WoW Classic adds «high quality AI generated voices for NPCs,» and it's a bit of a game changer. The add-on takes into account the race and gender of the NPC giving quests when generating voices and overall makes for a more immersive, less text-heavy version of Blizzard's old-school MMO. Players can even replay NPC dialogue via the quest log, allowing users to listen for their next objective while on the move without the need to scan paragraphs of text for where they need to go or what they need to collect.
The add-on is currently only available for the vanilla version of WoW Classic, but on Pierce's Ko-fi page, it seems like a version for the game's The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions could be a possibility in the future. Pierce is seeking a fundraising goal of $2,000 (which is currently 35% funded) in order to expand the project. Pierce writes that the add-on could also be ported over to the current, retail version of the game, though the retail port would only support voice lines from the original version of
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