Watched the video - looks pretty cool, even with the occasional glitch. Still haven't gotten out to sea with this to try it out (had my version 1.63 install ready to go, only to see you had already released 1.7 - plus still trying to tweak leo's latest LBO to work with Kriller's update and a few other things - plus, had to spend a couple of days traveling to a neighboring state for a funeral and deal with some other RL issues) - seems like I just can't keep up with all the amazing progress being made by all the modders
Anyway, got stuck in traffic on the way home tonight, and started thinking about trying to adapt SH4Speech to use with IL-2 (got tired of waiting for Oleg's BOB to come out, so I picked up the IL-2 1946 expansion a few days ago and thought I'd give it a whirl with my new PC and projector setup). Now that you've got it so that SH4Speech will run from anywhere, I'm assuming that it should be OK and pretty easy to set up multiple instances of SH4Speech - one for SH4 and another one in a different folder for IL-2, for example - is that correct?
Although this may change once I get into it, all I really want to do with it in IL-2 for now is program it to let me speak some radio commands (simple stuff like asking my wingman or other flights to cover me, or asking the tower for clearance to land, etc.) - I hate having to type those and scan the menu trying to figure out how to send those messages, and they seem like a real natural thing to use a speech-recognition program for. IIRC, those require a two-step process like hitting the tab key and then a number key - I assume from what you've said about your macro ability in SH4Speech that it can handle that sort of key combination, right?
I assume that with only needing those few sorts of commands, for the IL-2 install of SH4Speech I can get by with a much-pared down version of the voice_commands.csv and key_commands.csv files, use the same key_codes.csv file and just use a blank/empty copy of the tubes.csv and variables.csv files (IIRC, you said it needs to have those files, even though they're empty, as opposed to just deleting them entirely?), and otherwise just copy everything in the SH4-related instance into the folder for the IL-2-related instance - any reason that sort of approach shouldn't work? I assume that each instance of SH4Speech would be able to use the same instances of perl, python etc that are already installed and being used by my SH4-related instance (not at the same time, of course), so I wouldn't need to have duplicate instances of those things installed - is that correct?
(BTW - my .csv file-related comments above are based on how you had 1.63 structured - I haven't really digested what changes you might have made to those file relationships in 1.7 yet, but I'll be plowing into that in the next couple of days unless RL gets in the way again - still, I'm sure you can see what I'm getting at as far as what parts it seems I would need and what parts it seems I could do without for the IL-2 instance).