what we haven't really done yet

[Spike]

[leileilol]

[Entar]

[scar3crow]

[FrikaC]

[frag.machine]

So, you want something really COOL but not done yet ?

A much needed feature to any game engine (not Quake only) is text-to-speech support. You know, let's say you're doing a RPG game, and there are lots of NPC's. With current engines, you either restrain the dialogues to boring text only, or you need to embbed a ton of wav/ogg/mp3 files with prerecorded speechs (which is usually another problem to small mod teams to create). With text-to-speech support (in the particular case of the Quake engine, through a simple QC built-in function) and a couple different voices you could offer to the modder a lot of opportunities, like creating sentences on-the-fly using the player name, or his score, or his inventory or anything else.

[leileilol]

Sin added a hacked-up M$ TTS library hookup in a 2001 patch , it was wacky listening to the chatlines in multiplayer

UT2004 also has speech on text.

problem is, most TTS libraries are non-Free, and are GPL incompatible.

[frag.machine]

[TargetPractice]

[neg!ke]

[frag.machine]

[TargetPractice]

[Lardarse]

You might want to look at the precessors to Quoth. They were Contract Revoked and The Lost Chapters.

[FrikaC]

[DieparBaby]