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NPC "Impersonation" in chat

As GM, I'd like to click on a token and choose to "impersonate" it in chat, so that all my chat window shows that creature as the one speaking (the players would see this of course). I know many of Roll20's players won't bother with this because of the video/audio, but sometimes I like to interject something like that in the chat window, or perhaps I'm running a game with laryngitis and I need to rely more on text? PS: I see a drop-down box for the GM to choose who is speaking in the chat window, but I couldn't figure out how to assign a particular token name to that box. So I shrugged and wrote this post.
No worries, we're here to help. The drop-down menu uses character entries from the 'Journal' tab (up there next to 'chat' and 'art library'). Any character entered there with a name will be available to the GM. A player can speak as any character assigned to them.
OH! Duh. Okay...maybe a right-click command on a token to "add name to Journal" would be helpful to the GM with improvised token NPCs?
I've just added that suggestion added to the devs' list.
Also, the token or Character sheet image in the chat box would be a nice visual reminder of who is speaking, since as of now, the tokens represent no names on the map.