Solution to the Chat dilemma (I think)

[zdoofop]

The question: Legally speaking, all text chat needs text to speech and all voice chat needs speech to text. Currently there is no software that can be applied to games to do that for you.

The solution (according to a friend of mine who is into this stuff): Speech to Text may be a problem, but Text to Speech is natively built into Windows. All you guys really need to do is ensure all text is treated the same way and identify it to Windows as text. It will basically do the rest. (At least that is what he told me.)

@Grummz in case you miss this

 

[Pandagnome]

This sounds good but is it easy to do the text to speech?

 

[zdoofop]

This sounds good but is it easy to do the text to speech?

I...think so? That's the point of this post anyway.

 

[Pandagnome]

Ah have you seen this used in other games?

 

[zdoofop]

no, I'm just echoing what my friend said to me. I think.

 

[Valaetoshiru]

Something I had looked into briefly a while back: discord has an API for websites that let you insert a discord chat onto your web page. I was thinking it might be possible to use that API to insert a discord chat into the game itself. That way discord can handle all the text to speech, speech to text, etc...