keyclone + voice recognition a marriage made in heaven.

[Anozireth]

A bump to note the alpha release of my voice recognition program. See Update! WoW VoiceBox Alpha release! for details.

[Simulacra]

I tried the vrcommander trial - not bad, a little unresponsive here and there but not bad at all. I really like saying ATTACK and they do lol. One warning, when flying don't cough as it tends to unmount and it's a loooong way down.

[Toned]

Mute your mic ?

[Simulacra]

Mute your mic ?

Yep I learned the hard way, I have to have the mike right in front of me and it's got a big OFF button thank god. The prob with vrcommander is that it just stops responding after awhile.....no idea why, so what I have to do is stop it and start again, anyone else having the same prob?

On another note, after years of playing wow my wife finally took an interest last night as I was controlling the chars with voice lol. I got her saying MOUNT, STANDUP, SITDOWN, JUMP lol - she had a bit of fun there, it brought the control freak out in her.

[Fleecy]

All of the above (with the exception of the chat stuff) is supported by in game mechanics and is clearly allowed by Blizzard. I would equate "per voice command" with "per key press". I think you are clearly covered hear. If you were to program it with something like "back up" and it sent a key press to your crew that backed them up for 10 seconds by sending that one key press for 10 seconds and then releasing... that would be automation (at least as far as I understand Blizzard's stance on the issue) and therefor be against the rules.

As far as the chat things go I wouldn't think they have a problem with it.

I would, if I were you and had your programming skills, ensure that your program was not customizable to the point of being to add delays, But that is just my 2 c

I've had many chats with GMs over the definition of automation and the use of voice recognition to control the game. Basically 1 command = 1 key press - voice or physically pressing a key. As for the voice command "Back Up"; it presses and holds the down arrow key for X seconds. While it is a "timed" or "delayed" ability and it does not voilate the "automation" ruleing. I've had that chat with a number of GM's.

[Malekyth]

Xuthus is right, your voice does change when you get excited and it can sometimes inpact the recognition performance. But I've been using Dragon for quite a while and its been "trained" very well over that time. Regardless of the pitch in my voice or the scream as I yell for a heal its usually accurate.

I find, to my own amusement, that the commands I say to Voice Commander tend to be repeated so often that they settle into their own distinct timbers, or tones, or whatever I'm trying to say. I mean, I say "dot" at least twice per fight (castsequence, coa then corruption), so I tend to say it exactly the same way every time. "Drain life" too. Somehow I got myself locked into saying "Burn 'Em" (immolate, searing pain castsequence) like a supervillain directing his minions to turn the flamethrowers on the poor defenseless village. But maybe I'm hearing what I want to hear, I'll need to shoot some video some time and see whether I'm really as consistent when dealing with voice recognition as I think.

[Quarto]

Installed Dragon today. Got it working basically, however I cannot get it to send the same command to each instance. Using Keyclone, am I missing something?

If I mouse over an instance, it will send the command to that window. Basically I got the hard stuff done....just gotta make it work for all windows!

[Anozireth]

Installed Dragon today. Got it working basically, however I cannot get it to send the same command to each instance. Using Keyclone, am I missing something?

If I mouse over an instance, it will send the command to that window. Basically I got the hard stuff done....just gotta make it work for all windows!

If you're running Vista, you may want to give my program a try. I'm trying to design it specifically for multiboxing, so the ability to broadcast to multiple instances is built in. Click the link in the signature for more details.

[Sarduci]

Installed Dragon today. Got it working basically, however I cannot get it to send the same command to each instance. Using Keyclone, am I missing something?

If I mouse over an instance, it will send the command to that window. Basically I got the hard stuff done....just gotta make it work for all windows!

If you are using keyclone then as long as it is not on you DNP list it should be working fine. Unless keyclone requires some specific kind of input that only Rob would know about off hand.

[Deadly1]

I just set this up last night on my 3 box, 5 account setup, it was awesome! Took a little while to get it configured, and if you are modifying the program on the fly you have to remember to reload the template after you make changes, but its fairly simple to figure out, and the tutorial on VRcommander is 'fairly' thorough....

I am right now boosting my other 4 accounts, and placing the Macros for follow, grouping, "accept all", and stop following on voice command has let me quit hitting the other keyboards for anything.... It was nice to walk near my alts and say "follow" have them all snap to attention and start following. "Party", 1 send out the invites, "Accept", they all accept group invite and I get to take off running. Entering instance is a snap, just have to say follow, instantly back on follow again... was very nice, or any other encounter, fear... ect. The program does have to be spoken to very clearly to "hear" whats being told, but for me it opened my eyes to what i could do. I have friends that said Dragon Naturally speaking is better on learning your own voice, and different pitches, so i might swap the program, but the concept is incredible.

I loved it from a boosting perspective it was VERY handy..