Voice Commands for SH5

[FIREWALL]

I just hope you all have kids running around the house screaming and yelling.

[karamazovnew]

Girl: "Daddy, Eric is mean to me again!!!!"
WO: "Yes sir, firing torpedo tube 4."

[oscar19681]

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

Girl: "Daddy, Eric is mean to me again!!!!"
WO: "Yes sir, firing torpedo tube 4."

Girl: "Daddy i,m hungry again."
Cook: "Yes sir you can taste my soup sir"

[oscar19681]

But yeah if thers is one simulation that is perfect for some good voice recongnition its a subsim!!

[karamazovnew]

Not any subsim, mind you... SH5 seems to be perfect for this.

But it seems I need to underline my first post. I did not ask for a voice recognition plugin, as we already have such things, but a new order system that would allow an external voice recognition program to send in very detailed orders. For people not using it, this feature would be invisible. But even people moding the interface would benefit from this. Buttons for quickly going up/down one meter, buttons for specific tracking of sonar contacts, controlling dive planes, "makeshift" separate air tanks (realeasing a certain ammount of it) etc.

Each order is a sort of "sentence", made up of an optional number of words, each "word" can have a key input or a default value. Also the sentences themselves(with some values) can be given key commands. So changing depth is in fact Change_Depth([absolute/relative], [number of meters], [how many angles on dive planes]). "Go to Periscope depth" is just Change Depth(absolute,13.5,10 bow,10 stern).

Changing course is Set_Course([absolute/relative],[how many degrees],[rudder setting]). So "Hard Left" is just Set_Course(NULL,NULL,30port).

Combined with a Focus_Settings as explained in my first post, this can mean that unless you're at the periscope station, have your tubes flooded and opened, you kids can yell as much as they want. Without saying "Fire Torpedo One" they will not fire any torpedo.

[Pisces]

If they were to include voice recognition in SH5 that would be great for immersion, especially enhancing the 'commanding' experience.

However, as it is, voice recognition support in Vista is a bit of a problem if you do not have the English language pack (or of a few other major languages) OR Vista Ultimate. Otherwise Speech is useless. Which I assume applies to alot if not most people. Microsoft claims that it's speech recognition pack is part of almost every Vista edition, even Home Basic (just not the Starter edition iirc). But for some stupid reason Microsoft forced Speech to only look for a speech-engine that matches the installed user interface language. So, for example if you installed the dutch language pack at Vista installation(like I did), it complains that you cannot use it. Even if the (game) software requires you to talk in english, the Speech software stubornly tries to find the the engine for your own language. If you want to change between language packs you need to have Vista Ultimate (or Enterprise but thats only sold to large enterprises, not to single users). Which alot of user simply do not have. The only solution out of this is to upgrade to Ultimate, as there is no way back when you made the language choice in the other editions. But since alot of users only have an OEM license of Vista it does not apply to them. They would need to buy a completely new Vista license.

The problem would be easily solved if Microsoft provided an update to Speech that is less restricting to non-english speakers. But I won't hold my breath on that.

Read:

http://blogs.msdn.com/speech/archive...ows-vista.aspx

[martes86]

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

Girl: "Daddy, Eric is mean to me again!!!!"
WO: "Yes sir, firing torpedo tube 4."

[DigitalAura]

Seriously, this is a terrific idea. It sends shivers down my spine...is this possible to mod? Are you telling me you played SH3 with something like this?

[martes86]

There's no mod for VR. You just use external programs.
Back in the times of SH2, we used something called Game Commander 2.
I rescued it to yell at my SH3 crew (and draw some attention) when I was in the Campus Party this year at Valencia (last week of july), but apart from the usual looks from the pilot buddies beside me (basically, I was in the simulators area), not much to point out.