Also would be great if games that use a lot of text could have an advanced option where the game would call an external script(or have modding support) with the

Also would be great if games that use a lot of text could have an advanced option where the game would call an external script(or have modding support) with the text and some metadata. I was hacking at OpenMw (a Morowind open source engine) and experimenting with having teh dialogs,books,tooltips read using Text To Speech. I think it is important to allow the flexibility and not built the TTS into the game,