Soundblock Text to Speech (TTS)
Assuming sound blocks return in SE2, one of their biggest limitations in SE1 was that every sound had to be predetermined by the developers or modders. If you wanted a specific line or message, someone had to think of it first and include it in the game. If you didn’t like the voice or tone, there was no way to change it.
A good solution would be to add text-to-speech support. Players could enter a sentence and select a voice to read it aloud. As a fun touch, Marek’s voice could even be included as an Easter egg. This would make sound blocks far more flexible and useful for many different situations.
This idea is not unprecedented. Text panels and antenna broadcasts already allow players to send custom messages, and whatever systems servers use to moderate those could easily be extended to text-to-speech as well.
With this feature, any status update that would normally appear on an LCD could instead be spoken to the player. Ships and stations could feel more alive, and the scripting possibilities would be endless.
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