With someone mentioning the U8 speech pack, I had an idea... why not create a "speech pack" for U7... as a post-v1.0 addition...
People in the exult community who think they've got the right stuff could choose an npc from the game and record their lines and convert the recordings to mp3, which could be used in Exult.
Of course, the huge amount of speech in the game would make it a pretty big undertaking... and the speech pack download would end up being rather large...
As is evedenced by most talkie games, good voice actors are hard to come by at the best of times, so we can assume it would sound a bit off. Not to mention that every NPC would have a different accent. For example, if i was to voice Dupre he would have a thick Northern English accent (best summed up by the phrase "trouble at mill!"). Then you have to host x hundred lines of dialog somewhere, which is going to be pretty bandwidth intensive.
Now if EA were to remake U7 in the (for example) Deus Ex engine, with full speech, that would be a Good Thing (TM).
