[REL] sh4speech - voice command for SH4 - Page 3

billko · 09-10-07, 07:01 AM

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I can always cycle them by saying "next tube."

Bill

Careful with that, if it missed a tube switch, say you start at 1 and say "tube 3" and it misses it, then you say "next tube" twice to reach tube three, it will actually think you're on tube 5. Then if you say "open tube 1" it will think it has to go 2 more to go 6,1 and it will actually end up opening tube five (cuz you're on 3 and it goes 3+2). So it's best we fix this. If you find yourself all mixed up of course just say "reset tubes" and click tube 1, and it should be fine from there.

I figured that, so I don't rely on it. If the torpedo room didn't "hear" me, I hit the "w" to make sure the command goes through. From the documentation you provided, I figured it was absoultely essential to do this or everything would get out of sync. And, of course, the few times I forgot, I went to "manual override" until I was out of the firefight, then "reset tubes" - after manually setting the tube to tube one, of course.

I hope that the delay thing will fix it. My theory is that when it starts to lag, the program starts loading the keyboard buffer more quickly than SH4 can read it; therefore, some of the "keystrokes" are overlooked. The other theory is that SH4 clears the keyboard buffer right before it reads it, instead of right after it reads it. While that seems to be just semantics, it comes into play when the game slows down significantly because the window of opportunity where the player can input a keyboard stroke and have it be cleared "accidentally on purpose" gets pretty big. A variant of that theory is that the computer slows down so much that the keyboard interrupt isn't serviced until it's too late and the SH4 dumps the keyboard input for the reason above. I dunno, timing gets hairy when the computer is under duress like that. The last theory would explain why, when deep in time compression, the mouse and keyboard become fairly unresponsive, and may be the reason why keyboard strokes are lost to me when the graphices slow the game down.

I hope this has given you some insight on how you might make this super mod accomodate slow rigs like mine. I say it's optional because there's nothing wrong with the mod; it's something wrong (read: slow) about some of the computers it's being run on.

Bill

tomoose · 02-24-08, 07:19 PM

Minsc_tdp;
finally gave this a shot. In a word, excellent!! It really adds to the immersion.

A couple of questions;
1. I can't seem to get my 10 torpedo tubes recognized. It's fine up to 'tube 6' but 7 to 10 won't work and I have to click on them. I always start my game with "I have 10 tubes" and "reset tubes". Am I missing something?
2. Is there a way to avoid having the cursor jump around in reaction to the voice command? If not, no biggie, it's just a small distraction.

I've also got TrackIR and I'm just now wondering if I use that on 'mouse emulation' mode if I can move my 'view' using the TrackIR? Hmmmmm:hmm:

Overall, SH4 Speech on top of the TM and RSRD mods has been the best addition to this game. I changed the direction commands to be "come left/right 10, 15, 20 degrees" as opposed to "heading...." and it is so cool to say "come left 10 degrees" and have the response come back "new course XXX degrees". I say "dive" and lo and behold, the sub dives. I say "make your depth 200 feet" and the diving officer responds with " new depth 199 feet" (I know the 199 is a quirk in the game but a very minor one in my book).

SH4 Speech rocks

minsc_tdp · 02-25-08, 02:08 PM

I'll test the 10 tubes problem tonight. Didn't know there was any issue there. Nobody has ever reported it.

Make sure it actually hears you when you say "i have ten tubes" by trying that command before you enter the game a few times.

This reminds me of another suggestion someone made - a simple audible feedback anytime a command is recognized and successfully processed. A very short, quick "blip" would be all that is necessary. Hopefully the game doesn't dominate the soundcard, I think I will add this tonight and make the MP3/WAV file interchangable of course so you can use anything you want.

No clue about TrackIR, sorry

minsc_tdp · 02-25-08, 02:09 PM

Forgot to post here - 2.52 updated with "Pause Recognition" and "Resume Recognition" commands. I'm thinking that this, combined with Press To Talk Mode is pretty good, but a nice third option would be a key-based recognition toggler. Just tap once and it ignores, tap again and it starts listening.

tomoose · 02-25-08, 03:17 PM

I'm probably pushing my luck (and your patience

) with more questions.

I'm running at 1650 x 1090 resolution. Because the .csv files etc come defaulted to the smaller resolution, what are the tweaks I must do and in which files. I edited the voice_command.csv but am unsure about the other .csv files as I don't want to screw it up.

Having said that, it seems to work pretty much flawlessly but I find the occasional command where I say a command and instead of executing that specific command my 'view' will pan and then point down (usually on the bridge).

I'm sure these issues are pure ignorance on my part and are not problems with the mod itself. It's really added a new dimension to the game for me, thanks very much for your work, well done.

BTW, the installation was a breeze. The only other download necessary was the actual MS SDK software. The SDK 'training' session, IMHO, is a must before using the mod. The other bonus is, if I forget to run the mod batch file to start it before starting SH4, no biggie, simply alt-tab out, start it then alt-tab back in.

minsc_tdp · 02-25-08, 04:42 PM

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