SpellSpeak

Now including Spell Combinations!

Spell combinations give you the power to cast multiple spells with one phrase. Check out the tutorial video to see it in action.

SpellSpeak is a program that enables you to speak the names of spells to cast them in Hogwarts Legacy®. It switches between the sixteen spell slots that the game has laid out as four spells each of up to four sets that you can obtain with your Talent points.

To be perfectly clear, SpellSpeak doesn't give you anything that you don't already have. If you have not spent Talent points on extra spell sets, although SpellSpeak will send the keyboard key to switch to that spell set, it will fail to switch in the game. SpellSpeak also can't cast any spells that you haven't learned. If the spell isn't loaded into the corresponding spell slot in the game, it won't be cast. SpellSpeak isn't a cheat engine, nor is it intended to be (not that judicious cheating is evil <grin>). It is designed to enhance immersion. It may help you to be marginally better in battle, but surprisingly that comes from the possibility of being quicker at yelling Protego than fumbling for the Q key, or using your Tools more frequently since you can speak the command while you're casting instead of finding the Tab key without losing hold of the 1-4 keys.

An unfortunate caveat with SpellSpeak is that speech recognition has latency. It takes somewhere around ¾ second to recognize the spell name (this will differ depending on your computer's capabilities). The processing that happens after the spell is recognized to send keystrokes to the game takes less than 1 millisecond, so almost all of the latency is outside of SpellSpeak's control. This may be a showstopper for you in battle; if it is, well, it is, thanks for trying. SpellSpeak also emulates keystrokes for the keybinds in the game, so you may still find it useful to say “Collections” to bring up your collection list, or “Okay” to dismiss a prompt.

To help mitigate the latency, SpellSpeak can use Auto Hotkey as an optional component. With Auto Hotkey installed, the last spoken spell will be mapped onto the number 5 key (this can be changed in the Auto Hotkey script) so that you can subsequently cast it more quickly.

While the technologies that SpellSpeak uses are complex, SpellSpeak itself is actually fairly simple and really dumb. You can think of it as if it were blind – it cannot see into the game to see which spells you actually have loaded in your slots. If you have told SpellSpeak that you have this layout:

Spell set 1: Lumos, Levioso, Reparo, Accio

Spell set 2: Confringo, Diffindo, Arresto Momentum, Depulso

Spell set 3: Expelliarmus, Bombarda, Arresto Momentum, Flipendo

Spell set 4: Incendio, Dissilusionment, Descendo, Transformation

When SpellSpeak hears you say“Confri