we need a smarter text auto-advance

[eksynn]

could the text auto-advance have an option to only auto-advance voice-acted lines?
or perhaps have the two act independently from one another?

an issue i have is that i set it to auto-advance quickly when the cutscenes are playing, simply so i can sit back and relax without worrying about pressing num0 or clicking through, so as not to break immersion from the voiced cutscenes. however, i always forget to disable it just before the cutscene ends, as it's not always clear when it'll end, to begin with. so, the next cutscene will have texts sped up to the maximum as a result, and i miss what they say as i can't read that fast, so i have to disable it after having missed a few dialogues. (i also noticed this doesn't affect every non-voiced text in certain cutscenes, but i haven't found a pattern yet.)

edit:
i loved this idea too:

Another thing I'd find useful is an indicator of when the box is going to auto-advance. Sometimes I want to manual-override it and then hit the button just as it changes, so I skip the new box instead.

[Ilisidi]

Aren't the voiced lines typically advancing at about the rate as the speakers are speaking anyway? It appears to me that the system uses average voicing speed in relation to number of words at default speed. It even takes gaps and stutter into account as they appear in the text.

When I'm reading scenes out loud the auto-advance also goes at about my speed.

[Deveryn]

It would be nice to know this feature is there to begin with. I did a search on this and the first comment on the feature is "if you read the patch notes, you would know" (posted 5 years ago)

[NekoMataMata]

Aren't the voiced lines typically advancing at about the rate as the speakers are speaking anyway? It appears to me that the system uses average voicing speed in relation to number of words at default speed. It even takes gaps and stutter into account as they appear in the text.

When I'm reading scenes out loud the auto-advance also goes at about my speed.

I've had auto-advance actually advance the text before the voice actors finish. It's not by a whole lot but by 10 seconds it can be annoying.

[Iscah]

I've had auto-advance actually advance the text before the voice actors finish. It's not by a whole lot but by 10 seconds it can be annoying.

That might be the occasional long dialogue boxes that overflow into a second box?

Agreed on the main topic – different settings for voiced and non-voiced would be good.

Another thing I'd find useful is an indicator of when the box is going to auto-advance. Sometimes I want to manual-override it and then hit the button just as it changes, so I skip the new box instead.

[eksynn]

Aren't the voiced lines typically advancing at about the rate as the speakers are speaking anyway? It appears to me that the system uses average voicing speed in relation to number of words at default speed. It even takes gaps and stutter into account as they appear in the text.

When I'm reading scenes out loud the auto-advance also goes at about my speed.

as true as this is, i didn't mean just the voice-acted ones. if you keep the skip option enabled and there is no voice acting in a cutscene, it skips way too quickly that you barely even read a few words in before it skips to the next dialogue. it works fine in voiced cutscenes though, but it got so bad that i had to disable the feature altogether.