When we think of the innovations of WoW Patch 9.1 "Chains of Domination" , the first thing that comes to mind is the new zone Korthia, the megadungeon Tazavesh or the new raid Sanctum of Domination. With the update, however, a lot of small adjustments and improvements have been made to the live servers. Among them are a whole series of features with which Blizzard wants to optimize accessibility. In an article on the official WoW website, the designers have now presented the accessibility updates in detail.
We're excited to announce that you'll be able to enhance your gameplay experience in Chains of Domination with several new accessibility updates. This will ensure that adventures in the Shadowlands are truly epic for all. All accessibility options, including these new updates, can be found in the game menu interface (default shortcut: ESC).
Transcription for voice chats
Don't miss a thing by using Voicechat transcribe
to convert spoken language into text chat. This allows you to follow each conversation at your own pace.When you enable this feature in the Accessibility menu, a new icon will appear next to the Voice Chat icon in the Chat Channels window. Click this icon to enable or disable voice transcription for individual voice chats. Enabling voice transcription opens a voice chat window that converts what other chat participants are saying into text. Players can choose where they want the voice transcription window to appear from a dropdown menu: "New Tab," "In Line," or "Both" (similar to in-game whisper messages).
Recommended EditorialContentThisiswhere you will find external content from [PLATTFORM]. To protect your personal information, external content will not be displayed until you click "Load all external content":Load all externalcontentIagree to display external content to me. This means that personal data is transmitted to third-party platforms. More about this in our privacy policy. External content Read more in ourprivacy policy.Read aloud text chats
Turns written text into audio commentary with the new Read aloud text chat
. This option enables the text-to-speech feature on all text-based chat channels and system messages.Clicks the Read aloud text chat option in the accessibility window to have the text in the chat window played back audibly by a synthetic voice from the operating system. The text-to-speech options include:
- Warning sounds for new chats, line breaks, and chat activity in a window without it having to be active
- Reading aloud a player character's name when their chat message is read aloud
- Different voices (depending on how many available audio packages are installed through the operating system; Windows and Mac are supported)
- Adjustment of speaking speed and volume
- Different voice for system messages
- Select channels and sources to be read aloud
Text-to-speech commands
To enable or disable various options, type /tts followed by the command:
menu - Opens the Text-to-Speech configuration menu.
mymessages - Enables or disables reading aloud your own messages.
channel [name] - Enables or disables a channel.
sound line - Sounds a tone that separates chat lines.
sound activity - Sounds a tone when there is activity in a chat window.
naming - Reads
nsc - Enables or disables messages from NPCs
system - Enables or disables system
emote - Enables or disables emote
whisper - Enables or disables whisper
say - Enables or disables "say"
shout - Enables or disables "shout"
group leader - Enables or disables group leader messages. group
- Enables or disables group messages.
success - Enables or disables successmessages.
officer - Enables or disables officer messages. guild
announcement- Enables
ordisables
guild announcements.
guild - Enables or disables guild messages.
raid leader - Enables or disables raid leader messages. raid
- Enables or disables raid messages. raid
warning - Enables or disables raid warnings.
instance leader - Enables or disables instance leader messages.
instance - Enables or disables instance messages.
blizzard - Enables or disables whisper messages from blizzard.
systemalternativevoice - Enables an alternate voice for system messages.
alternatevoice [1-10] - Selects alternate voice.
alt sample - Sample text for alternate voice for system messages volume
[0-100] - Sets the volume.
speed [0-10] - Sets the speaking speed. voice [0-10]
- Selects the voice.
default - Restores the default settings for text-to-speech.
sample - Speaks sample text.
settings - Reads out the current settings.
stop - Stops the voice output of the current message.
on - Enables text-to-speech.
off - Disables text-to-speech.
help-
Reads out a list of all settings.
help [name of command] - Reads out information about the named command.
/tts stop - Stops the speech output of the current message.
/tts altbeispiel - Sample text for the alternative voice for system messagesRecommended
Speak for Me (Synthetic Voice)
The new Speak for me
option turns your text into speech. When this feature is active while you are in a voice chat with other players, you will gain access to the new PartyVoice text chat channel. Everything you type in PartyVoice will be read aloud in a synthesized voice to other players in your voice channel. Please note that this feature is only available on English clients.Tip: Show solidarity with other players by activating "Speak for me" - you never know who you could help that way!
Recommended EditorialContentThisis where you willfind external content from [PLATTFORM]. To protect your personal data, external embeddings will only be displayed if you confirm this by clicking on "Load all external content":Load all external contentIagree to external content being displayed to me. This means that personal data is transmitted to third-party platforms. More about this in our privacy policy. External content Read more in ourprivacy policy.Contrast for quest texts
Make reading easier by enabling contrast for quest text
. This new setting will give your quest log window a solid color background to make the quest text easier to read. Contrast Comparison OriginalFull Screen SliderEnabledContrastAdjust light reflections
Adjusts the intensity of reflected light with light reflections
. In chat, type the command "/console specular" with a multiplier between 0.0 and 1.0. A multiplier of 0.5 allows the reflection effect partially.Example: "/console specular 1" is the default.
Source: Blizzard WoW: The in-game sun is reflected off the rippling water at full, radiant default intensity. Source: Blizzard WoW: Customized light reflection with a multiplier of 0.5 dims the intensity of light reflected from water. Source: Blizzard WoW: Setting the light reflection to a multiplier of 0 will cause the light reflected from the water to disappear completely.Enhancement of the accessibility settings
With the additional options listed here, we have expanded our accessibility menu. You can now find the settings for colorblind mode in a submenu of "Accessibility".
Support buffed - it only takes a minute. Thank you!All readers get free daily news, articles, guides, videos, and podcasts on World of Warcraft, Pokémon Go, and other favorite games from us. Up until now, we've funded this site through advertising and kept it as free of paid articles as possible, but since COVID-19, that's become increasingly difficult. Many companies are cutting or eliminating their advertising budgets for 2020. Budgets that we unfortunately have to rely on if we want to continue offering buffed for free in the future in the form we are used to.
For this reason, we are now turning to you. You can support us as buffed supporters so that we can continue to offer our content for free in the usual form without introducing a paywall or publishing misleading news. Every contribution, big or small, is valuable. Support buffed - it only takes a minute.
Support nowWe thank you in advance
. Advertisement: Order World of Warcraft now on AmazonAlso read these interesting stories 0buffedCast: #575 with WoW Lore, Fake Leaks and Destiny 2
Episode 575 of the buffedCast is all about the WoW Lore, the latest fake leaks and the new expansion for Destiny 2 . 0WoW: Rextroy as (almost) immortal sorcerer
In Rextroy's latest WoW video, he sets out as a near-immortal sorcerer to beat up Hordeans outside Orgrimmar and explore the world . 1WoW: Blizzard finds no solution for Sylvanas lags
The next WoW Shadowlands ID reset will fix some lags in the Sanctum of Domination, but Sylvanas remains a lag battle. 01:31WoWPatch 9.1: The launch trailer for Chains of Domination is here (German) World of Warcraft from€14.99 From Karsten Scholz
Editor
Karsten has been writing about his favourite hobby since 2009 - it all started back then as a rogue class spokesman at buffed. Is something missing in the article? to the homepage to the gallery The links marked with * are affiliate links. Affiliate links are not ads, as we are independent in our research and selection of featured products. For product sales we receive a small commission, with which we partially finance the free content of the website. 0
