Text chat or Text to speech or Built in Mute Helper

[Pinkyyyy]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

So I don't have a mic setup, and sometimes maybe people don't feel like talking, a native way for people without mics to talk to other people would be great, and in my opinion necessary. It is extremely cute to just be able to nod your head yes or no, but it's a limitation.

Describe the solution you'd like

Had a pleasure of being given a mute helper by the worlds host which made the whole experience a lot more natural feeling, even more when they gave me an add-on for text to speech. A solution similar to this one would work really well, with options for people to mute peoples text chat, host to mute someone in text, or give them permission to use text to speech etc. etc.

You could also have a text cloud next to the person, to see that they are typing, and then what was typed

Describe alternatives you've considered

Currently there doesn't seem to be a way to communicate natively in the game unless you have a microphone, the only other solution i saw was someone handing me a text box to type into, which was clunkier than the Mute Helper because i have to carry it around with me, and the Mute Helper just attaches to my avatar. It also resize text nicely, etc. etc. Plus the way Mute Helper handles text, by making it float next to your character, is a nice way to handle text chat, as it's not just a text box on the screen that gets cluttered and you don't know if the person typing there is close to you or not.

Additional Context

Apologies if this issue is formatted wrong, first time doing this.

[InconsolableCellist]

:+1: Super important for deaf and hard-of-hearing people as well.

[Pinkyyyy]

Definitely, a speech to text option would also be great, i think apex legends has this ability, not quite sure how well it works though.