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I tried this out yesterday in Tanaris, and I gotta say I'm very happy with it. The reason I looked into it was that I noticed I was leaving out some spells to save key space. Example - Since I play a paladin and 4 shaman team, my shamans don't get hit a lot. Therefore, I said "Well, lightning shield won't help too much so I might as well not use it." That started to eat on me, because I felt like I wasn't playing my classes as efficiently as I'd like.

I set up Voice Commander, which turned out to be a pretty easy process. Then I went through my action bars and moved things to a new action bar for voice commands. All my seldom-used commands now go there. I have lightning shield, my train macro for cities to have my team form a line, my /dance macro, a ghost wolf macro, and many others tied to voice commands now. I don't lose reliability because all combat commands are still keybinds to my n52.

I think I'll probably use it even when I'm not multiboxing. I can't count the times I've had a spell that I don't use often enough to justify putting on a keybind. Example - On my paladin, I have keybinds for just about everything, but I leave a few out because I run out, like Judgement of Justice. Justice is a fabulous spell for using on rogues so they can't sprint, and druids so they can't travel form. (Among others) However, I just can't fit it into my keybindings. With voice commands, I can use Justice and not have it take up a keybind. Another example - Fear Beast on my hunter. It's situational, so I can't keybind it, I just don't have enough keys! But when I see a druid in animal form, I start wishing I could use it. Sometimes I even find it in my spellbook and click it from there!

I think voice commander can be a useful tool if people incorporate it's flaws instead of trying to twist its arm. Don't use it to control healing, or nuking. Use it for things that you want to be able to do but don't use in combat when it really counts, or for abilities you rarely use. If you try to rely on it, you will end up screaming at your computer "HEAL! HEAL! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HEAL!" but if you just want your guys to /dance in orgrimmar you're hardly going to sweat if it takes a few trys to get it to listen to you. (Although it's been 100% accurate for me so far. I have a very good microphone.)