In-Game Scratchpad Mod Available - Works Great In VR!

[Chic]

Yah voice to text is rather imprecise but coordinates should not be a prob. “Nor” is fine. For numerals, avoid run-ons. Four, four rather than forty-four. Pause tween number sets. 4, 4, pause, 3,7, pause, etc... Before long you get the hang of it and miss cues become rare. With VoiceAttack, voice training goes a long way, also, mic sensitivity is important. For me, recognition is optimal when the VoiceAttack sound bar range is @ 25-30 %.

 

Edit: as a side note, your voice training can be saved so you can take it with you if you go to a different rig.

Edited August 29, 2019 by Chic

[Habu_69]

Spent a bit of time on this and did extensive voice recognition training. Scratchpad use seems to require some speaker training, as well as voice recognition training. Now I am finding that voice recognition consistently interprets "north" as a command and Scratchpad prints * each time "north" is pronounced. South == $, East == ^, West == @. I can find no documentation of this behavior and need to devise a work-around. "N" is interpreted as "and."

[Captain Orso]

I want to use scratchpad in VR to aurally record coordinates, from JTAC for example, but Scratchpad produces lots of misunderstood text. "North" usually prints as "Nor". Sometimes it produces numerals, sometimes spelled numbers. Mistakes numbers for other words, etc. I will try voice training again.

 

As kaltokri stated, what is input into Scratchpad depends entirely on what Window speech recognition understands ONLY. It has absolutely nothing to do with Scratchpad.

 

Windows has an app for training your windows installation to understand your speech. It basically has you say a word and then write what you mean. Do it often enough and windows will recognize your specific speech pattern in flight, so to say.

[Habu_69]

 

 

Thanks. I will check out the app and perhaps play with mic output gain.

[Habu_69]

Found the app AND turned on Win 10 Voice Recognition. Works pretty well now.

[RePhil]

I had this on last computer and it saved entry's so when I reloaded DCS they were there. I installed on this computer and now when I restart DCS all entry's are gone? What file might be missing that stored data entered

[=Panther=]

I had this on last computer and it saved entry's so when I reloaded DCS they were there. I installed on this computer and now when I restart DCS all entry's are gone? What file might be missing that stored data entered

 

Try these steps: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4021117&postcount=147

[RePhil]

Try these steps: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4021117&postcount=147

Thanks did and it worked now if I could only get text to speech to type in that box would have it made. Text to speech work perfect in say Word but will not work atoll in DCS witch scratchpad open

Edited September 15, 2019 by RePhil

[Chic]

Thanks did and it worked now if I could only get text to speech to type in that box would have it made. Text to speech work perfect in say Word but will not work atoll in DCS witch scratchpad open

 

If you’re saying that VoiceAttack’s speech to text is not working with the ScratchPad, make sure that you are positioning the ScratchPad window directly over VoiceAttack’s default cursor position which the center of your screen. The cursor needs to be focused on the ScratchPad window for STT to work.

 

EDIT: the aforementioned advice assumes you are using the VA profile offered in post #50 of this thread.

Edited September 16, 2019 by Chic

[Blech]

Hi,

 

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Thank you very much for "Multiple Pages"

I use it for CHECKLISTs

 

Works for me :

 

C:\Users\ xxx \Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Config\ScratchpadConfig.lua

C:\Users\ xxx \Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\Hooks\scratchpad-hook.lua

C:\Users\ xxx \Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\Scratchpad\ScratchpadWindow.dlg

 

C:\Users\ xxx \Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scratchpad\...

 

0000.txt

0001.txt

BF109 01 Start.txt

...

FA18 01 Start.txt

...

etc.

 

An older answer / CHECKLIST-picture in this thread

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3751142&postcount=20

[Nealius]

I've been having a bit of an issue with my scratchpad in VR and can't figure it out.

 

I'll have information written in the scratchpad, then delete it. But instead of being deleted, the text remains visible at a low opacity. When I write new text, the new text ends up getting mixed with the low opacity old text (that should have been deleted) and things are hard to read.

[Captain Orso]

Do you have the latest version? There was an update a couple of weeks ago.

[Lange_666]

assuming you already run VoiceAttack,

after installing scratchpad mod,...

 

The dictation commands come from the "OTHER " Menu, also {DICTATION} is a token (don't know what that really means) but its case sensitive

 

 

I'm having an issue with the dictation thingy.

It only records the first thing i say after i said scratch pad.

If i put the cursor into the scratch pad windows and say "display" it will display what i just said (or what Windows Recognition thinks what i said) but then i can't add anything else until i close the scratch pad again and re-open.

 

 

 

The "display" command stops the dictating mode which was set to start in the "scratch pad" command but there seems no way i can use another command to re-activate the dictate mode again without closing the scratch pad window itself. Tried a bit of everything to re-start the dictation but can't get it to work.

[Chic]

I'm having an issue with the dictation thingy.

It only records the first thing i say after i said scratch pad.

If i put the cursor into the scratch pad windows and say "display" it will display what i just said (or what Windows Recognition thinks what i said) but then i can't add anything else until i close the scratch pad again and re-open.

 

 

 

The "display" command stops the dictating mode which was set to start in the "scratch pad" command but there seems no way i can use another command to re-activate the dictate mode again without closing the scratch pad window itself. Tried a bit of everything to re-start the dictation but can't get it to work.

 

Are you running my profile from post #50.

[Lange_666]

No, i ran some stuff from post 47 but since that didn't work i changed it without much success. I'll take a look at yours.

[USA_Recon]

Is it possible to put an image file into this ?

[Chic]

Is it possible to put an image file into this ?

 

Not in it’s current state AFAIK.

[JSpidey]

I put together a beefed up VoiceAttack program that allows you to dictate hands free to ScratchPad. You can also opt to hear an audio playback of your dictation if you want to bypass ScratchPad. The playback will loop10 times or until you Say ENOUGH. It bypasses Windows Clipboard and handles all the text editing and window focus issues as well. Currently, the ScratchPad component is working in 2D but I'm not sure how its workin in VR. I'm not in VR any longer so I can't troubleshoot. Feel free to work on it and share. Please report bugs.

 

 

THANK YOU n26 for ScratchPad.

 

 

Update: The profile now working in VR. Profile version & ReadMe updated.

I already use VA for DCS World and have Vaicom profile, is there a way I can use that profile with this? Or do I have to do one or the other?

[Chic]

I already use VA for DCS World and have Vaicom profile, is there a way I can use that profile with this? Or do I have to do one or the other?

 

Yes. Just import the ScratchPad profile into your existing VA profile.

[JSpidey]

Yes. Just import the ScratchPad profile into your existing VA profile.

So with my Vaicom Pro profile loaded just click Import on the right drop down and I should be good to go?

[JSpidey]

Yes. Just import the ScratchPad profile into your existing VA profile.

Nevermind I figured it out, thanks!

[Chic]

Nevermind I figured it out, thanks!

 

Prego

[JSpidey]

Prego

Actually a new problem is arising, I run VR and I usually ALT+ENTER to fullscreen it, when doing that even adjusting the mouse cursor to primary window doesn't seem to work, it will go relative to my heads position, any ideas?

[Chic]

Actually a new problem is arising, I run VR and I usually ALT+ENTER to fullscreen it, when doing that even adjusting the mouse cursor to primary window doesn't seem to work, it will go relative to my heads position, any ideas?

 

 

 

I think that's an easy fix but I haven't been in VR for a long time now.

You should inquire in a VR thread.

[JSpidey]

I think that's an easy fix but I haven't been in VR for a long time now.

You should inquire in a VR thread.

This is a VR thread?