Voice recognition in SH4

[DirtyHarry3033]

Sorry if this is a dumb post, maybe there is an "easy" solution for VR in SH4?

When I was playing SH3 I became totally dependant on a program called Shoot! for about 99.9% of my commands, i.e.:

"Dive Dive Dive!"
"All ahead full"
"All stop"
"Open tube one"
"Fire tube one"
"Depth under keel"

and so on. As a sub commander, there's just something not right about clicking a mouse to do those, you're supposed to open your mouth, give an order and it happens, right?

Well I had d/l'ed a fantastic "Shoot" profile for SH3 (by Cavalier889) and was wondering if it would work with SH4. Looks like maybe it does Haven't tested it thoroughly yet and I'm sure it will break some keystrokes that have changed since SH3, but the few things I've tried work great!

You can get Shoot! here:

http://clans.gameclubcentral.com/shoot/

The SH3 profile for Shoot! is here:

http://www.subsim.com/subsim_files/patches2005.html

Search the page for "Silent Hunter III Voice Command" and you'll find it.

After you've installed everything, browse to:

C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific\Data\Cfg

or wherever you installed, and back up commands.cfg!!!! Then copy the Commands_en(1.3).cfg file from the SH3 profile .zip to the above-mentioned folder and rename it to Commands.cfg. This will create key bindings for the less-used commands that don't have a key binding and they will be sent when you run Shoot! with the SHIII.xml profile loaded. (yes you can use them from the keyboard as well)

Like I said, I'm sure this will probably conflict with some key bindings in SH4 that have changed since SH3. But it seems to work and I'm sure any problems can be sorted out with a little effort.

Again, accept my apologies if this is "old news" and there's already VR built into SH4 (if so I ain't found it) Just trying to contribute something And nothing gives me more immersion than telling my crew what to do as opposed to wading/clicking thru endless menus of icons...

DH