VAC or Voice Attack?

[Thick8]

Both have been around for a little while now. Which has the most complete A-10c voice command profile? Don't feel like fiddling at all. I just want to issue the commands in a natural voice using the DCS commands. Like "Two, attack air defenses at my spi with missiles from the north".

I won't need to manipulate cockpit switches with it.

[Thick8]

Heck, me and Cortana are BFFs. She even knows all my bad accents.

[wormeaten]

Yes you got as well lot of profiles for DCS modules.

 

Read more ybout it here.

 

https://www.facebook.com/eagle.dynamics/posts/10159751855955341

[Thick8]

Hmm. Can't seem to get it working.

Installed VA, VIACOM, and Whartsell's static ATC.

Using the # pad buttons 1, 2, and 3 will bring up the Transmit dialog in VA. The command is recognized, yet it does nothing in DCS. Any ideas?

 

Have tried several commands.

Using the latest DCS 1.5.

Tried in both VR and monitor

Edited December 8, 2017 by Thick8

[wormeaten]

I don't know about all this buttons you are using.

I just have in game com radio button set up in VA. When I press comunication instead to press other buttons just speak and I communicate with tower or wing mans. You are confuse me. I have comm radio button on my HOTAS throttle.

 

Voiceattack just turn your speak in to pressed key. VIACOM is just set of profiles for different airplanes and actually don't have nothing else with VA. Its an upgrade for it. If your VA work properly out of the game should in game too.

 

Problem could be if speech recognition is set up correctly. You have to learn your speech recognition how you are speaking some words but after that it is recognized your words flawlessly.

[Thick8]

Got it working. For some reason VA wasn’t registering the joystick button presses via autohotkey. I reinstalled VA and it started working.

[wormeaten]

Got it working. For some reason VA wasn’t registering the joystick button presses via autohotkey. I reinstalled VA and it started working.

 

:thumbup: :pilotfly:

 

You will see its new immersion level.

[Johnny Dioxin]

Most people use Voice Attack because 1) it gets more publicity (because, imo,....) 2) It's a lot cheaper.

 

Personally I find VAC far superior, but it comes down to personal taste, I think.

 

Ron hasn't made an update to VAC in quite some time, but he is still very approachable for support, by email. Mind you, it doesn't need much updating imho

 

edit: here are the profiles available for download from the forum site:

 

http://www.dwvac.com/vac_phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=16&sid=cb8f2a8818c069e8c386f87b2cee5e97

 

I have many of my own - I can look to see what I have for the A-10C, if you go with it.

 

(deleted - nope - thrid option is only for checklists - my error)

Edited December 9, 2017 by Brixmis

[mr_mojo97]

There’s also going to big Viacom update (or at least a new version - 2.5) in the next couple of weeks which I think makes it more integrated with DCS world. It really is awesome and powerful tool, much better than VAC which I also used for a couple of years.

[Johnny Dioxin]

I have downloaded VAICOM and looked at it - I haven't used it because I prefer to write my own profiles etc.

 

I do have one for DCS comms only, but I'm pretty sure it was made for 1.2 and the comms function has changed since.

 

This is just the top bit of several pages:

 

Either way, I'm sure you won't be disappointed whichever way you go ;)

Edited December 9, 2017 by Brixmis

[Thick8]

Really enjoy setting my radios and calling out ATC, tankers, AWAC by name. JTAC is messing me up a little bit but I’ll keep practicing. The fact that the system uses keywords is very cool so I don’t have to follow an exact phrase for the system to recognize a command.

The system seems to have a problem recognizing me saying Vaziani. It kept sending the command to Sogalund. But I have easy radio turned off so... Then I switched to 139.00 to call Sogalund and my pilot voice said “ Vaziani, inbound”. WTF! LOL.

I need to read the commands list to Cortana a couple of times I think.

[wormeaten]

The system seems to have a problem recognizing me saying Vaziani.

 

This problem you should fix directly in windows speech recognition. Simply ad new word Vaziani and record it like you are normally speak and that's it.

You could run on some other words as well and teach your "secretary".

 

I know I do that for all airfields.

[GIJoe]

I have tried both, and have had more success with VAC recognizing my voice. Probably something that varies depending on the individual. To me, the price of either was reasonable enough to try them both.

[Gladman]

I've also had both. I'd agree with GiJoe's statement.

[Buckeye]

Really enjoy setting my radios and calling out ATC, tankers, AWAC by name. JTAC is messing me up a little bit but I’ll keep practicing. The fact that the system uses keywords is very cool so I don’t have to follow an exact phrase for the system to recognize a command.

The system seems to have a problem recognizing me saying Vaziani. It kept sending the command to Sogalund. But I have easy radio turned off so... Then I switched to 139.00 to call Sogalund and my pilot voice said “ Vaziani, inbound”. WTF! LOL.

I need to read the commands list to Cortana a couple of times I think.

 

VoiceAttack never understands me worth a shit...and I have an extremely plain American accent. Frustrating as hell.

[Johnny Dioxin]

The reason I don't like Voice Attack was very well demonstrated today.

 

I decided to give the HCS packs another go - the latest version of both HCS and Voice Attack - in Elite: Dangerous. I tested it first - as is always a good idea - to see how well it would recognise me - this was the result - all I said until it was finally recognised was "Hello ASTRA" - and the lines shown after that, which it then got right.

 

 

After that, I tried it in the game. Most of the time I kept shtumm, just in case it got me into trouble. But that didn't help - even when I wasn't saying anything, it thought I was - and came up with a command (stop engines) that I hadn't even said:

 

 

It wasn't a misunderstanding - I hadn't said anything at all.

 

What I don't understand is that I was under the impression that they all used the voice recognition API built into Windows. So theoretically, all of them should work as well as each other, but this is not the case - so the people writing these progs must be fiddling with the settings.

 

I've done extensive training of my PC voice recognition to understand my voice. I use VoxATC X in the two main civvy sims and it works almost to perfection. I used the standard Windows method through the speech recognition blurb, and in addition I have done loads of IFR calls for entire flights just to train it.

 

So why is it so poor in Voice Attack? Even Paul Endersby's free Sim Voice Checklists that I did some videos and downloads for a couple of years ago was far better.

 

*this was using the mic in the Oculus Rift