Anyone use voice commands

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Johnfb

Anyone use voice commands as in this video ???

On one of the Youtube pages (could also be his Klingon Academy Let's Play) he mentions it is done with VAC (http://www.dwvac.com/) On that site is a profiles page with a download for SH3. No experience with it myself.

[Frontier359]

Was never a huge fan of voice commands myself, but games like SH3 practically beg for it.

VAC is the program. It's not free, but it doesn't require any voice training. I also like the fact that it allows multiple phrase variants per command, so saying "Crash Dive" or "Emergency Dive" will still point to the same thing.

It's not perfect. You can't order exact numerical depth/speed. I've had to repeat things on occasion, but that's rare. The main drawback is human error. Sometimes I forget the phrase or the push-to-talk key. No doubt this will go away with time and practice.

Check out Chapter 23 of my LP if you want to see this system shine. I found it very convenient in concert with deck gun attacks.

[Mouftic]

After reading this thread I went and tried a couple programs. The only one I could make work is VAC and it has a preset profile for sh3

It's actually pretty cool, just have to clear some little problems.... I had a destroyer in a ramming run while I was at periscope depth and said "back emergency" it responded "yes sir! blow ballast"

You can imagine the result.

The program understood "surface emergency"... I changed it to "blow ballast".

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by Mouftic

I had a destroyer in a ramming run while I was at periscope depth and said "back emergency" it responded "yes sir! blow ballast"

You can imagine the result.

Sounds like the crew has a death wish...

I'm not feeling adventurous, so I'll probably stick with the old fashioned way until they work the bugs out...

[Mouftic]

Dead they are

The good thing about VAC is that you can say anything you want for a command.

If you wanna say "to the deep you go" for fire torpedo you can do it....

Anyway, sounds like im advertising VAC and I didnt even pay for it yet.

[King_Zog]

The biggest problem with shoot is that you have to write your own profiles in notepad, and I would assume VAC has a simple and quick point and click editor, and as you have to pay for it then I'd expect it probably is the better application overall so no arguments there.

But hey, I am a big fan of FREE over handing over cash, so if anyone is having problems making a shoot profile just say and I'll post mine here, and you can use it as a template.

I didn't need to do any voice training with shoot although it is recommended, and you can configure it to say anything you want also. Just make sure you download the fix for NET 2.0 to make it work on Windows O/S post XP.

[Mouftic]

Originally Posted by King_Zog

The biggest problem with shoot is that you have to write your own profiles in notepad, and I would assume VAC has a simple and quick point and click editor, and as you have to pay for it then I'd expect it probably is the better application overall so no arguments there.

But hey, I am a big fan of FREE over handing over cash, so if anyone is having problems making a shoot profile just say and I'll post mine here, and you can use it as a template.

I like free stuff too

Ill take your offer on your profile. I'm not into the script and coding anymore so I am pretty confused. I was a real pro with the basic language though . Now i'm feeling nostalgic about my TRS 80.