Text to speech for Pillars of Eternity

Text worth hearing in Pillars

• Unvoiced dialogue
• Scripted interactions
• The journal
• Cyclopedia and bestiary
• Books
• Tooltips
• Loading screens

Press CtrlShiftE and draw a box round any of it to hear it read aloud.

Obsidian's unvoiced text

Both games voice part of their dialogue and leave the rest as text. Add the illustrated scripted interactions, the journal, the cyclopedia and bestiary, books, tooltips and loading screens, and a Pillars campaign is a lot of reading.

One key per conversation

Save the dialogue box as a region and one key reads the current line.

Box a cyclopedia tooltip or a book page with Ctrl+Shift+E to hear it.

Compared with the Pillars of Eternity text to speech mod

Credit where it's due: VaultDoc's free Text-to-Speech mod for the first game, built for his wife who has dyslexia, reads unvoiced dialogue, the journal, the cyclopedia and loading screens with Windows' built-in voices, and skips lines that are already voiced. If you play the first game and it suits you, it's a great option.

Corvo Reader needs no mod, reads on demand in both games (Deadfire included), uses natural AI voices, and works the same in your other games.