Game text to speech
Text to speech for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Rogue Trader is a long read: much of the dialogue and narration is unvoiced and full of 40K vocabulary and glossary tooltips. Corvo Reader reads it aloud in a natural voice, without mods.
- Free plan, no card
- Windows 10 & 11
- No mods
Text worth hearing in Rogue Trader
- Unvoiced dialogue
- Narration
- Glossary tooltips
- Colony events
- Exploration text
- Encyclopedia entries
Press CtrlShiftE and draw a box round any of it to hear it read aloud.
Walls of 41st-millennium text
Much of Rogue Trader's dialogue and narration is unvoiced, the vocabulary is dense, and glossary-linked tooltips open inside each other. Colony management, exploration and the encyclopedia add more. Players on the Steam forums have asked for a narrator for exactly this reason.
Read a conversation with one key
Save the dialogue panel as a region and one key reads the current line.
Box any glossary tooltip with Ctrl+Shift+E to hear what the term means.
Compared with SpeechMod and AI voice mods
Credit where it's due: Osmodium's free W40K SpeechMod reads the game's text with your Windows voices (it needs a mod manager), and there are AI voiceover mods too.
Corvo Reader needs no mod install, reads anything on screen when you ask, uses natural AI voices, and works the same in every game.
Questions
Rogue Trader and Corvo Reader.
Does Rogue Trader have text to speech?
Not built in. Community mods add it; Corvo Reader does it without a mod.
Do I need mods?
No. Corvo Reader reads what's on your screen, so it doesn't install anything in the game or change its files.
Which display mode does Rogue Trader need?
Borderless or Windowed. In exclusive fullscreen, Windows keeps the game's picture away from other apps, so Corvo Reader can't see the text. Where to look: Display settings: windowed or borderless fullscreen. Check your game's display settings, as the exact label can change between versions.
Is it free?
Yes. The free plan needs no card: standard neural voices for 20 minutes of narration a week. Paid plans start at $6.99 a month and add weekly premium voice minutes, unlimited standard voices, Summarize and Translate.
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Read the guide
Hear Rogue Trader instead of squinting at it.
Download Corvo Reader free. No card, no mods.
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