speech recognition

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by in_vino_vomitus

... also had problems with the voice control in the OS interfering with commands I was trying to give....

IVV, what make and model of headset are you using? I bought a spendy Logitech 960 wireless headset, and the 7.1 surround sound (in SH5 ) was awesome. BUT the voice recognition was terrible (in SH3, 4, and 5). I got a lot of commands misinterpreted as Windows commands, and some words, like "Fire" could not be recognized at all! I compared the audio traces from the Logitech with those taken with a Sony PS2 wireless headset and a Radio Shack $19.95 wired cheapo. The distortion in the Logitech traces was pretty apparent. With the Sony (and the R/S) the Windows 7 voice rec software has no trouble distinguishing SH3 voice commands from operating system commands. I haven't measured it, but I'd guess well under 1 in 100 commands.

@Mikemike : Shoot is good, but SHspeech lets you use all the on-screen mouse-controlled data entry functions as well. ("AOB port 75. Range... Mark!") And the SH games have a LOT of mouse-controlled data entry. I don't know of any way to teach Shoot to do mouse movement.