Voice Attack Profile Set Up Tips and Hints

[Koriel]

 

Very interesting video. Gonna get it....

[GeorgeLKMT]

Yeah, looks super useful, way better than messing with F keys. Too bad I can't use it because of no voice recognition support on my Windows... screw you Microsoft!

[Gladman]

I still think DWVAC is better.

[f4l0]

You should check out Vaicom: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2333187#post2333187

 

This profile is almost complete and easily extendable! Maybe someone can point Froogle to this, then he doesn't need to generate his own profile...

[DarkCrow]

Voice Attack Profile Set Up Tips and Hints

 

I'm new to Voice Attack but have been having a blast learning how to set up profiles and seeing how cool it is to use in DCS. I'm not a programmer by any means and do not use any scripting functions as of yet. However I thought it would be cool to have a thread that gave hints and tricks that people have discovered while setting up profiles that made it easier and/or gave deeper functionality in game.

 

This morning while working on my A-10 profile I had to duplicate allot of commands and just make simple changes to them for a new command. This was simple while the list was small but became more difficult as the list grew.

 

 

So what I did is created another profile called A-10C DUMP to copy the list of commands I wanted to edit to. I was then able to edit that list to their new commands and copy them back to the A-10 profile I was creating. This is making it go allot quicker.

 

 

 

Hope this tip is found useful by somebody!

Edited May 17, 2015 by DarkCrow

[f4l0]

Just check out VIACOM. There, a bit of 'programming' was used to utilize variables to 'group' actions, suffix etc. really cool and a good starting point for new profiles

[Kozmyk]

I must say that Froogle's explanation of setting conditionals in Voice Attack is the best and clearest that I've seen so far, whether for DCS or anything else.

I made quite an extensive Elite Dangerous profile but couldn't get my old brain around conditionals.

Now I understand... I think :idea:

 

The VIACOM VA profile is truly a fine piece of work.

Either as a copy-and-go or as a template for editing to one's own preference.

[doveman]

VIACOM is indeed a great work but it just demonstrates how complicated it is to setup a voice recognition profile to work the current F-key operated radio menus.

 

I have a suggestion which I believe would make things a lot easier going forward and I encourage everyone to take a look and discuss it here http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2523986#post2523986

 

Voice Attack's UI isn't ideal either though, for example it would make things a lot easier to follow if it locked all prefix commands at the top of the list and grouped any suffix commands under the relevant prefix commands, or perhaps a completely different UI, with a box on the left that just lists any prefix commands and when one is selected, a box to the right shows all the suffix commands associated with that prefix. VAC also has the advantage of storing profiles in easily editable xml files that look like this:

 

<?xml version="1.0"?><profile>

<!--DCS A-10C command Set-->

<command name="Navigation > Anchor Here" phrase="Two Anchor Here" feedback="0" soundcom="0" category="F1. Wingman" active="-1">

<key description="NONE + F1 + NONE + """ extended="F1" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

<key description="NONE + F1 + NONE + """ extended="F1" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

<key description="NONE + F1 + NONE + """ extended="F1" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

</command>

<command name="Navigation > Return To Base" phrase="Two Return To Base" feedback="0" soundcom="0" category="F1. Wingman" active="-1">

<key description="NONE + F1 + NONE + """ extended="F1" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

<key description="NONE + F1 + NONE + """ extended="F1" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

<key description="NONE + F2 + NONE + """ extended="F2" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

</command>

<command name="Navigation > Fly To My SPI" phrase="Two Fly To My S P I" feedback="0" soundcom="0" category="F1. Wingman" active="-1">

<key description="NONE + F1 + NONE + """ extended="F1" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

<key description="NONE + F1 + NONE + """ extended="F1" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

<key description="NONE + F3 + NONE + """ extended="F3" extended2="NONE" qual="NONE" pause="40" repeat="1" duration="40"/>

</command>

 

which means they can be edited in Notepad++, which is sometimes quicker than using the UI to create/edit profiles. Voice Attacks VAP files are text files that can be opened in Notepad++ but they're much more lengthy, which each command spread over maybe 10 lines, so it's not really practical to edit them by hand.

 

Then again, VAC doesn't have prefix/suffix commands, nor any recognition threshold settings, so neither program is ideal. As things stand, Voice Attack has more features so if it sorts out the UI and the profiles (it might be possible to improve the UI to the extent that there is no benefit in being able to manually edit the profiles but I'm skeptical whether that's possible, if you think about how quickly one can copy and paste and search and replace in Notepad++). However, if DCS exposes the radio commands as I've suggested in my wishlist thread, so that Voice Attack can send direct commands over UDP like "Kobuleti request landing" instead of sequences of F-keys, that would certainly simplify both the UI and the profile files.

[doveman]

I stumbled across this example of a MS Windows Speech Recognition Macro, which seems to use prefix and suffixes and I have to say, it looks a lot more easier to setup and to review than Voice Attack's method https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/174532-voice-command-sp/#entry2730730

[Hollywood_315]

Hey guys, just to share with you VAICOM 2.0 new release

Hope you'll like it!

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=151296

[Doum76]

This is what i call an awesome brainpuzzle idea to use VA, the only impressive once i have found so far, that uses not only keybindings actions, but more complicated stuff, impressive. :) Link to forum post in his comments.