Is there a way to delay self-voicing playback?

[plaster]

I have a lot of lines that are accentuated with sounds (e.g., a punching sound effect with hpunch). Unfortunately, this tends to drown out self-voicing for a half-second, which might cause players to miss the name of the current speaker. Is there a way to even like, globally delay the text to speech function?

Also, semi-related, do we have any numbers on which Ren'Py accessibility features disabled players find most useful? Might be nice to run a poll or something

[XxrenxX]

I'm not sure about adding a delay. I only skimmed but are you using something like this?

As for your mention of ccessibility features for disabled players. What exactly are you thinking of doing?

Toggle the font size and resolution to make easier to see? Have an automated voice to read dialogue and narration for those with hearing problems? Kind of hard to give input when not specified what you are thinking of implementing.

[plaster]

No, but having voice lines in any capacity is another good reason to have a delay...

re: survey data, I'm mostly asking out of curiosity. It's hard to intuit what actually helps disabled players without soliciting their feedback, and when you have that kind of information you can better understand which accessibility features/areas need more focus and which aren't working. For example, Ren'Py games now include the option to switch the default font to OpenDyslexic. Intuitively, this seems like a good feature to have for reading-based games, yet what research we do have suggests it generally does nothing to improve readability.

[XxrenxX]

No, but having voice lines in any capacity is another good reason to have a delay...

re: survey data, I'm mostly asking out of curiosity. It's hard to intuit what actually helps disabled players without soliciting their feedback, and when you have that kind of information you can better understand which accessibility features/areas need more focus and which aren't working. For example, Ren'Py games now include the option to switch the default font to OpenDyslexic. Intuitively, this seems like a good feature to have for reading-based games, yet what research we do have suggests it generally does nothing to improve readability.

Aah I see. It's a hard question to answer, even in terms of those with set backs that could be caused by how visual novels are set up.

I think it could all depend on what you are making. Visual Novels are growing in popularity but they still are their own genre that isn't for everyone. Things I think that would probably be good idea in terms of those with disabilities is maybe taking a wide range if you wish to make it friendly for everyone.

Examples I can think of on the top of my head is changing the games colour themes to be friendly for a variety of different colour blindness as well as those without. Theres ton's of graph's online that show how to go about colouring in this manner. For those with reading problems you could change the games main font to a dyslexic friendly one, as well as make the font's larger and maybe thicker to make it easier on the eyes. This obviously doesn't cover everything.

I feel if it's something you are genuinely curious about implementing into your own game, be it a VN or not, you should try and get more feedback then just here. Look up other games that have these types of features in their game and see if you can find out anything about how they did it and what challenges it created in trying to do said thing. Quick google search and i found this article that talks about games and game accessories made for various issues.

[plaster]

Oh. Actually, now that I'm going through it, it seems TTS has a built-in delay related to the voice statement. Does anyone know how to trigger that delay manually? I suppose I could make a dummy voice clip that's silent and call it to trigger the pause every time a sound is used at the start of a statement...

[Imperf3kt]

You use the text tag "w" - which is for wait. (You might want to supply it a time so it continues instead of waiting for a click, {w=1.0}, for example)
If you're running a recent version of Ren'Py, you need to disable a config default first.

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config.nw_voice = False

This is legacy behaviour though, so isn't really supported anymore.

[plaster]

You use the text tag "w" - which is for wait. (You might want to supply it a time so it continues instead of waiting for a click, {w=1.0}, for example)

Self-voicing ignores text tags.

[Imperf3kt]

Oops, missed the fact you are using self voicing.

Was basing my reply on this
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