keyclone + voice recognition a marriage made in heaven.

[Fleecy]

Check out my post in another thread. I've been using Voice Recognition to control my characters for months now.

Voice control

When I first started using voice control I took it a little too far and automated a few things. After chatting to a GM about it I realised my mistake and removed the autonation component. But I've had a number of chats with GMs and controling the game by voice is a perfectly legal way of playing. As long as you are not exceeding the functionality of the in-game macro system. Eg.. no waits or timed presses, also not casting more than 1 spell per voice command. I *had* a voice command "Buff Group" which would send CTRL-1 (Priest Fort), wait 1 seconds and send CTRL-2 (Priest Spirit). That is autonation. To make it legal I changed it to a cast sequence spell. I would still give the voice command "Buff Group" but I would say it twice.

[shaeman]

Thanks fleecy. Good to know that if you keep within the boundries it's fine.

[Xuthus]

I've done this it is awesome ,but there are a few flaws .Such as if you get excited you speech changes .You need to basically talk animatronically ,as with keyclone there is a delay up to a full second. I would still be using it, but built a new comp and haven't got it all reset up.A few tweaks and you've got your dream come true. GL

[Bradster]

It's a neat idea but voice will never compare to the speed of pressing a key instead, in PVE it could work out nicely. The other down side is when you press a key it understands and perform that action. Voice on the other hand "heal", "Heeealll" "HEEEAALLLLL" you die. Then after you rez, you wife comes in pissed that you woke her up, she tells you to go die and in a fire, your locks then cast hellfire and kill themselves, worst yet your sleeping on the couch tonight.

[Binaryzero]

I set up a system to do this a while back (when Vista First came out) and it worked very well overall. I used to to to control my priest for my priest and hunter team. I used http://www.codeplex.com/KeySimVoiceCommander to do it. getting it running is a bit rough but it worked well when done. It would NOT be hard to use it work keyclone and control a full team.

[blast3r]

I'm probably going to play around with this idea this weekend as well. This would make it a lot easier to run multiple classes!

Xinzu Fear
Xinza Enslave
Xinze Earthbind
Step Back
Turn left
Turn Right

Omg I can't wait to play around with this stuff.

Oh, and:

Gank Horde just for fun.

[Depherios]

Itep Back
Turn left
Turn Right

Watch out with these... not sure what blizz would call automation. I suppose you could use "Turn Left" "Stop Turning" -- but if they stop automatically that could perhaps be construed as automation?

[shaeman]

Just an update - I tried this out today. It absolutely rocks. It's beyond a marriage made in heaven.

I did a fraps of it - but it recorded my wow sound, but didn't get my voice commentary which made my video useless. I'll try and resolve that.

Basically this works exactly as I hoped it would.

I was running with 3 locks to try it out. I had them all keycloned up. Then I activated the voice recognition software.

Configuration was simple - create a template. Then within this template create a new command (by typing the name you would say) then set it so it does a keypress. This key corresponds to the hotkeys. You then save and load the template and voila voice input.

In this way if i said demonskin all three would pop demonskin. It was seamless. No voice recognition training. it took the command 95% of the time if not more.

I really cant wait to try this out on a group of different classes.

The software which i bought is $10. Is called VR commander available at vrcommander.com (I don't want to sound like an ad), but this software gave me the same warm and fuzzy feeling I got from keyclone.

Like I say - I'll see if i can fraps something, then figure out how I encode it and try and upload it.

[Catamer]

I would think that it would be ok as long as the voice commands mapped to single key commands.
I believe the G15 macro's are only ok as long as they are mapped to single key commands.
You can't make external macro's either by this voice software or by the G15 keyboard doing a long sequence of events or timed events.

sounds interesting, I want to see the video of it in action!

[Fleecy]

I've had many many chats with GMs over the functionality of voice controlling games and avoiding Blizzard's defination of automation. I have the following move type commands setup, and I have confirmed with a GM they are fine.

Giving the voice "Turn 3 O'Clock" and my characters will turn to the 3 O'Clock position relative to their current position. To do this the voice command triggers the Right arrow key presses and holds it down for about 1 seconds. Likewise for "Turn 6 O'Clock" but holds the key down for about 2.5 seconds.

What you can not do is send more than ONE key press per voice command. You have to look at it like this, If you can perform the same function by pressing a single mapped key (or modified key combination - ctrl alt shift) on your keyboard, such as "A" then you can do it via a voice command.

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.

But there are times when it doesn't do what its told and is a great cause of frustration! Because you think if you had just pressed the button instead of using the voice command then you would have been able to kill that boss and not wiped. But thats a decision you have to make for yourself. I've become so reliant on voice control that I don't remember half of my key bindings for my abilities. Basically without voice control I would have to learn to button bash again.