Text To Speech

Wolf_Eye

SilverBride wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

I think it’ll be a great feature and I’m sure it’ll be off by default, I’m not sure why theres so many “as long as we can turn it off!!!!” and “I don’t see the use” posts.

I remember reading in a different thread that voice chat was on by default on consoles. That is why.

Voice chat is not the same as text to speech, and I think a lot of console games have voice chat on as a default these days. It's not quite the same environment/culture as PC, who have always traditionally used discord for years.

I understand the concerns, but I think there will not be cause to worry. I don't think it will default for live; they MIGHT have it auto-enabled for the PTS just to encourage people to test it. But we will soon see tomorrow.

Soarora

SilverBride wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

I think it’ll be a great feature and I’m sure it’ll be off by default, I’m not sure why theres so many “as long as we can turn it off!!!!” and “I don’t see the use” posts.

I remember reading in a different thread that voice chat was on by default on consoles. That is why.

Voice chat is a communication method, text to speech is an accessibility feature. Regardless, if I recall correctly during the stream it was mentioned that specific chats can be turned off and on (because yknow, zone chat), further adding to my confusion as to why so many people are worried about it being togglable.

SilverBride

Wolf_Eye wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

I think it’ll be a great feature and I’m sure it’ll be off by default, I’m not sure why theres so many “as long as we can turn it off!!!!” and “I don’t see the use” posts.

I remember reading in a different thread that voice chat was on by default on consoles. That is why.

Voice chat is not the same as text to speech, and I think a lot of console games have voice chat on as a default these days. It's not quite the same environment/culture as PC, who have always traditionally used discord for years.

I understand the concerns, but I think there will not be cause to worry. I don't think it will default for live; they MIGHT have it auto-enabled for the PTS just to encourage people to test it. But we will soon see tomorrow.

It doesn't matter to me if it's voice chat or text to speech, it's still something that I don't want to listen to.

As far as discord, I only use it if doing a group activity that requires it, and that is rare. I don't think it's the norm for PC players to use discord every time they play. Maybe some do but I haven't met them.

Wolf_Eye

SilverBride wrote: »

Wolf_Eye wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

I think it’ll be a great feature and I’m sure it’ll be off by default, I’m not sure why theres so many “as long as we can turn it off!!!!” and “I don’t see the use” posts.

I remember reading in a different thread that voice chat was on by default on consoles. That is why.

Voice chat is not the same as text to speech, and I think a lot of console games have voice chat on as a default these days. It's not quite the same environment/culture as PC, who have always traditionally used discord for years.

I understand the concerns, but I think there will not be cause to worry. I don't think it will default for live; they MIGHT have it auto-enabled for the PTS just to encourage people to test it. But we will soon see tomorrow.

It doesn't matter to me if it's voice chat or text to speech, it's still something that I don't want to listen to.

As far as discord, I only use it if doing a group activity that requires it, and that is rare. I don't think it's the norm for PC players to use discord every time they play. Maybe some do but I haven't met them.

No no, I meant when PC players need or want voice chat, they usually use Discord. Not that PC players alway use voice chat or always use Discord.

Ragnarok0130

Four_Fingers wrote: »

Uh, why not just add voice chat to PC like console? lol
Can't wait to hear sales and guild adverts in robot voice.

Probably because it's not really needed since the majority of the PC player base uses Discord or Teamspeak when they run content. It would make PUGing trials and dungeons easier to coordinate without inviting strangers into one's discord but in game VC would probably go mostly unused on PC IMO so it's probably seen as a waste of development resources. There's also the point that many players would simply turn off in game VC but say they're in it unlike in Discord when you can see if they're not there or have muted the channel.

Soarora wrote: »

RaikaNA wrote: »

I don't understand why ZOS would implement a text-to-speech when they could just very well ADD A VOICE chat option..


Why ZOS?

Not everyone wants to or is able to use a voice chat

I really don't get this "don't want to use voice chat" phenomenon that a subset of players in many different games seem to present nowadays. When we put together trial groups and have to PUG DPS we say discord is required but you don't need to speak because call outs are important in mech heavy content and there are players who don't even want to be in discord to just listen. I've seen this with my daughter's generation who love to text but seem scared to actually call a business to order pizza. It's bizarre from the standpoint of someone who's been online gaming since the mid 90s and has made a lot of long time IRL friends from chatting in gaming - even as one who's mostly introverted.

Four_Fingers

Whether it be console or PC I am always in my guild discord, must be a PvP thing.

Ragnarok0130

SilverBride wrote: »

Wolf_Eye wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

I think it’ll be a great feature and I’m sure it’ll be off by default, I’m not sure why theres so many “as long as we can turn it off!!!!” and “I don’t see the use” posts.

I remember reading in a different thread that voice chat was on by default on consoles. That is why.

Voice chat is not the same as text to speech, and I think a lot of console games have voice chat on as a default these days. It's not quite the same environment/culture as PC, who have always traditionally used discord for years.

I understand the concerns, but I think there will not be cause to worry. I don't think it will default for live; they MIGHT have it auto-enabled for the PTS just to encourage people to test it. But we will soon see tomorrow.

It doesn't matter to me if it's voice chat or text to speech, it's still something that I don't want to listen to.

As far as discord, I only use it if doing a group activity that requires it, and that is rare. I don't think it's the norm for PC players to use discord every time they play. Maybe some do but I haven't met them.

I don't know which games you play outside of ESO, however in multiplayer games it is common to use Discord on PC when playing if you've got a guild/clan/community playing together even if playing together informally outside of an event. I've even seen when you're playing with randoms and you just "click" and want to continue to play together inviting people to discord either for better communication or to coordinate playing together again later. I am amazed at how quickly discord's become a PC gaming staple over the past few years.

In ESO I've seen some of my guilds request that when you're playing to have discord running even if you're not in a VC in case they need to ping you for a raid/dungeon/etc.

SilverBride

I was going to reply but to stay on topic I will just say that I do not want to listen to any auditory text to voice when playing and suggest this be off by default.