Easy to find keyboard shortcut to immediately silence EDDI text to speech add on

[shodanx2]

I imagine most users have no choice but to permanently disable all text to speech function

A "shut up immediately" button would allow text-to-speech to remain usable.

[Darkcyde13]

You can always set up VoiceAttack (assuming you use it) to run the 'shutup' command, and assign a keyboard key to it. You can find information on this here: https://github.com/EDCD/EDDI/wiki/VoiceAttack-Integration#shutup

For a more permanent silencing, you can use 'disablespeechresponder' instead. With the right VA command, you could use this as a toggle along with 'enablespeechresponder'. Information on these commands are just below the 'shutup' one in the above link.

[Tkael]

Thank you for the suggestion, you are not the first to request this (please see #197). Closing as a duplicate of an existing item. o7

[shodanx2]

Thanks, if there's an issue with EDDI registering a hotkey, would it be possible to make a "shutup" hotkey with AutoIT ? I don't have voice attack

[Darkcyde13]

There is a free 'trial' version of VoiceAttack. It's only limited to one user profile, and 20 commands in that profile, but other than that, it's a fully functioning version. If you only want it to make EDDI shutup, you can easily use the free version to do that.

[Darkcyde13]

I've had a (very) quick look at AutoIT. You might possibly be able to do it with that I guess. From what I can tell after only a cursory glance over it (so I may be way off here), you would have to have EDDI open on a second screen, and get AutoIT to use your mouse to select the Speech responder tab, and then click the Plugin enabled check box to deactivate the plugin. However, I don't know how well that would stop any speech that's in progress, if it would at all.

I would say that the free version of VoiceAttack would easily be the best way to go for you.