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Originally Posted by Simmy
Well theres your problem.
sh4speech "Only" works with pure stock game, or with TMO. Those are the only two games it works with, simple as that.
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This is not quite a correct statement. SH4Speech as downloaded, does not work completely with any version of SH4 currently available. Apparently, some of the scaling of dial controls has changed since the last release of SH4Speech. Some changes to the .csv control files are necessary even for stock SH4 and TMO.
To the extent that RFB uses the same keybindings and button commands as stock SH4, it can be used with SH4Speech "out of the box." RFB does mostly use the same key commands, unlike TMO, which IIRC converted the keybindingd to an "SH3-like" layout.
You certainly can use SH4Speech on a laptop. I haven't owned a breadbox computer in years. But all of the voice command programs, including SHSpeech and the voice command for SH5 should only be used with a headset with boom mic. The area mic in a laptop is OK for Skype, but not for voice recognition. It simply captures too much background noise. A trip to the local Shack and $15 will get you a wired headset that works perfectly well. Or you can spend 5 times that for a spiffy wireless version. YMMV. But don't plan to use the built-in on your laptop.
@suitednate: If your software is set up properly, then keypress commands will work just fine. For some reason, the SH4Speech software is not passing keypresses to the keyboard handler. Do you have any other programs running which interact with the keyboard handler? Like a keyboard macro program? Because anything like that will interfere. Obviously, the voice rec portion of SH4Speech is working properly since you see the commands interpreted properly in the dialog box. Does the dialog indicate that the correct key sequence is being sent? SH4Speech
should be run as administrator. I don't know whether it will work otherwise. And, BTW, I use SH4Speech and SH3Speech (same program, different csv files) under Windows 7 Home Prem, using the built-in voice rec front end software.
I find the most convenient time to give the SH4Speech setup commands ("I have X Tubes." etc.) is after starting SH4Speech and
before starting SH4. Those commands only set up control tables in SH4Speech, so SH4 isn't needed.
The dial setting portion of SH4Speech (dials.csv) needs to be modified to work properly, regardless of your screen resolution. I'm pretty sure that the button bar (command_bar.csv) needs fixup, too. This is not hard, but it does involve working with the csv files. You can get screen locations by taking screenies and opening them in a pixel-graphics program - Paint.NET is a good free one. Perhaps the simplest way to get going quickly is just to add a lot of key commands to commands.cfg and let SH4Speech do the keymashing for you.
If anyone is interested, PM me and I can provide complete sets of working csv files for RFB and TMO. Both work with a standardized (MY standard!
) keyboard layout, so there's a commands.cfg file included.