Voice Over

Speech is a feature currently undergoing testing in the game. It was first introduced in-game on 21 April 2010 in the update Slayer Challenges. In the tutorial, NPCs use voiced speech to communicate what is spoken in the chat window. Voiced speech can only be heard in the tutorial, Unstable Foundations. You can hear your character, Sir Vant, a goblin and several other NPC's talk.

The intention was to receive player feedback based on the voices in the tutorial and expand speech to a certain amount of the game based on how players reacted to the update. The response to the voices in the tutorial have been fairly positive. Jagex is still deciding on whether to put speech for all the NPCs in the game due to players' comments, but it is still being considered.