# Disable interruption
**URL:** https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504
**Category:** Unreal Engine Plugin
**Tags:** question, unreal-engine
**Created:** [August 23, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504 "2024-08-23T19:33:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/1 "2024-08-23T19:33:48Z")
**Original Discord Post by focuskontrol | 2024-08-23 19:33:48**
Is there a good way for a NPC to ignore a player trying to interrupt them while they’re speaking? Sometimes it would be useful.
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/2 "2024-08-26T09:17:21Z")
**Reply by k3kalinix | 2024-08-26 09:17:21**
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/3 "2024-08-26T09:26:28Z")
**Reply by mighty\_brute | 2024-08-26 09:26:28**
Hello \<@249594950071746561\>, remove interruption method from blueprint.
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/4 "2024-08-26T09:50:34Z")
**Reply by focuskontrol | 2024-08-26 09:50:34**
Hey, this seems like a method to permanently disable interruption, I want to dynamically change it between different triggers. I guess for now I can think of something myself, but it would be useful in the future for the Invoke functions to have a bool “Can Be Interrupted”. Or just one bool for the chatbot component itself would be fine.
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/5 "2024-08-27T13:51:27Z")
**Reply by focuskontrol | 2024-08-27 13:51:27**
It seems removing the interruption method from blueprint isn’t possible as it’s a part of the ChatbotComponent C++ class. And there InterruptSpeech is not a virtual void, so it can’t be overwritten either in a C++ child class
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/6 "2024-08-27T13:55:23Z")
**Reply by k3kalinix | 2024-08-27 13:55:23**
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/7 "2024-08-27T14:11:04Z")
**Reply by freezfast | 2024-08-27 14:11:04**
You can ignore by setting a barnch right after the T keyboard event, and basically check if the character is currently talking or not, if the character is talking the we do nothing
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/8 "2024-08-27T14:11:58Z")
**Reply by freezfast | 2024-08-27 14:11:58**
\<@1216254232957685765\> could you provide a quick screenshot of how this can be done? It would basically us the IsTalking function on the ChatbotComponent
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/9 "2024-08-27T16:06:34Z")
**Replying to freezfast’s Message**
> **Reply by freezfast | 2024-08-27 14:11:04**
> You can ignore by setting a barnch right after the T keyboard event, and basically check if the character is currently talking or not, if the character is talking the we do nothing
**Reply by focuskontrol | 2024-08-27 16:06:34**
that’s a good idea, I’ll test that out. But yeah, that’s still a permanent change
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### Author:  [@K3](https://forum.convai.com/u/K3)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.convai.com/t/disable-interruption/1504/10 "2024-11-25T12:14:39Z")
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