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AG-51 Squad Operations (Secure) => Official Squad ADDON's and DCS MODS (Secure) => Voice Attack Information and Discussion => Topic started by: AG-51_Lahsoldier on November 27, 2018, 12:19:25 PM
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I use voice attack and it seems to work well. Does take some trial and error on some things to get them to work but now that I have played with it I can do pretty much anything. You can assign key binds or even mouse clicks. I have gone so far as to make the mouse move to a spot, mouse click, enter text (into a web browser) click and enter a forum for my re-enacting unit. All I have to say in the mic is "forum" and it does it all automatically (after set up of course). I use it for some of the key hits I need while playing I don't have on my hotas (map, NVG including making them lighter or darker etc.) If someone wants some help with it let me know. The free version includes 20 "commands" you can assign to wording under one profile. I think its like 10$ for the paid version which gives you unlimited profiles and unlimited # of command assignments. I am seriously thinking of getting the paid version since to fly the harrier I dont think I can assign all I want to to the hotas and thins would make it much easier than hunting keys while to hover. Its not limited to use just for games either. Pretty much anything you want to do in a computer you can make a profile for and use it.
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Sounds like this would be the cat's ass for a VR user! :thumbsup:
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What does this software cost? Assuming that I like the free trial, what would it cost to get a full product key? I'm only asking this because I'm at the office right now and can't download it.
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It
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Yup, 10 bones. I got it a while ago but just haven't gotten it to work how I want so I shelved it. Might be a good idea to get it rolling, especially since JESTER AI is coming soon...gotta tell that bozo the business!
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I found this while poking around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E-0-WoRMNA
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Yea I bought the full version also. One thing to keep in mind is it lets you make delays in the timing of the key presses.. Ex your command tells it to hit the LSK2 key and then another that depends on the first key actuating what you want. The second key may not work due to not having enough time for the first one to function. Just add some delay between the key presses and tada it works! Also you can map mouse moves/ click to locations on the screen but those locations MUST be in the same spot every time or else it wont have anything to click on. Just a few tips. I hear allot of guys use it for VR
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I can see using it for something as simple as just going through the comms menu while on final to the boat in order to get the carrier to turn the lights on! :thumbsup: Just press an assigned button on my HOTAS to enable Voice Attack and say, "F one", F three" or whatever the order is to get down to "inbound". Or, "Landing Gear", or "Landing Light". These are things that I don't have mapped to my HOTAS.
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I think when I get some time in a couple days I'm going to look into this. May be real nice for my vr setup. Get ready for some questions Soldier.
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I downloaded the free version of VoiceAttack because they recommend you do that first and make sure you like it before you buy it. I'm already loving it. This is going to make flying in vr even better! I found a turorial on YouTube that does a good job of teaching it to a first timer. He has a couple of videos on the subject. Here is a link to the first one, the second one gets into the actual setting it up. Anyone who thought about trying this I highly recommend it already.
The first time I tried it it worked fine. The next time I tried it I lost all inputs to DCS, mouse, keyboard, everything. I tested it by restarting DCS and just free flying for a few seconds, then I gave it a voice command and lost all inputs again immediately, so I shut down both DCS and VoiceAttack and restarted both and it's working like a charm now. All those little things I had to do that bugged me like extending and retracting the fuel probe ( switch is in a bad spot in vr), clicking the comms menus, all so easy now. The more I learn about this the more useful it will become. I'm sure Soldier will have some great tips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Vsg-VHcHw
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Looks appealing to me mainly for cockpit switchology and comms management.
Imfound these if it helps: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMd2J1iNJCMeUcBmOjJAMb0o-3BClzOPt
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Hey thanks Thud! For some reason I didn't see those.
I finished setting mine up last night. Right now I'm using 17 of the 20 commands the free version allows you. I didn't have any trouble getting commands entered or keys bound. It's very straight forward once you know what it expects. Right now the free version gives me enough key binds to do what I need but when I learn a bit more about it's capabilities I will buy the paid version and put it to better use. Now I just push my VoiceAttack push to talk button and say for example "Comms 1, F10, F1, F3" , and I'm good to go.
PS, for the commands needing a number ( Keys 1-10 or F Keys) I didn't use the actual number, I spelled out the word version of the number in the command line, example didn't use 8..spelled Eight. I don't know if that's required but that's how I did it and it worked first time. Also, the F keys do double duty even though you only have to program them once . If you program them they work in both comms mode and in regular mode, so I can access all my different views by saying the F key command but when I say Comms 1 or Comms 2 it then uses them in the comms menu, so that's pretty sweet too.
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You know, for an old retired guy, you're pretty switched on Sparky!! I'm going to get it also. Thanks Brother! :thumbsup:
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You know, for an old retired guy, you're pretty switched on Sparky!! I'm going to get it also. Thanks Brother! :thumbsup:
You're going to like it man!
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I can see using it for something as simple as just going through the comms menu while on final to the boat in order to get the carrier to turn the lights on! :thumbsup: Just press an assigned button on my HOTAS to enable Voice Attack and say, "F one", F three" or whatever the order is to get down to "inbound". Or, "Landing Gear", or "Landing Light". These are things that I don't have mapped to my HOTAS.
Speaking of this.... I was shown this add on to Voice Attack. It apparently makes it to where you can talk back and forth with the JTAC or person on the radio instead of the "pilot voice" doing it if I understand it correctly. Here is the link https://www.vaicompro.com/
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Own Thread now
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Hey thanks Thud! For some reason I didn't see those.
I finished setting mine up last night. Right now I'm using 17 of the 20 commands the free version allows you. I didn't have any trouble getting commands entered or keys bound. It's very straight forward once you know what it expects. Right now the free version gives me enough key binds to do what I need but when I learn a bit more about it's capabilities I will buy the paid version and put it to better use. Now I just push my VoiceAttack push to talk button and say for example "Comms 1, F10, F1, F3" , and I'm good to go.
PS, for the commands needing a number ( Keys 1-10 or F Keys) I didn't use the actual number, I spelled out the word version of the number in the command line, example didn't use 8..spelled Eight. I don't know if that's required but that's how I did it and it worked first time. Also, the F keys do double duty even though you only have to program them once . If you program them they work in both comms mode and in regular mode, so I can access all my different views by saying the F key command but when I say Comms 1 or Comms 2 it then uses them in the comms menu, so that's pretty sweet too.
THIS +1!!! I did not spell out the numbers and VA understood me perfectly! :thumbsup: Something as simple as taking a look at myself from the outside, "F2" and then back inside, "F1" is so simple now! I am loving this!! :thumbsup:
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I bought the paid version too. Well worth the $10. :thumbsup:
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I agree. I downloaded the free version of Vaicom pro, the add on to voice attack, and it works well on the comms menu. I think its only single player for the free version but is suppose to work on all planes and in multiplayer in paid. All you have to do is hit the comm key for the correct freq, speak the wording like Mosdak.. Hog 11 request taxi... and the AI responded back to you like you pressed those buttons on the comms menu. Pretty cool. Would be great for JTAC.
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I used the free version on our last squad night and it worked beautifully :thumbsup: I believe that the only limitation is the number of commands available to the free user - 21. I baught the full version and I can't see myself ever doing without it again!
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Glad you guys are liking VA. I use it for just about every game I play, including RoF, DCS, FSX, etc.
The nice thing about the paid version is that you can have as many "profiles" (ie. command sets) as you want *and* you can even nest them....
So, for instance, in my case, VA starts up when Windows does, and it loads a Default Profile automatically... In there, I keep generic Windows stuff like (Press F1... Start TrackIR, Start Teamspeak, Shutdown PC, Press Enter, Load Profile "prof-name", etc.)
Then my game profile inherits from the generic one, so for instance, I don't have make new commands for function keys in my DCS Profile, as they're already inherited from the Default Profile. With that in mind, my DCS profile is for generic DCS commands (show the scoreboard, default assignments like flaps and landing gear, default views, etc). Then for each aircraft I have a profile for that (ie. Load Aircraft Hornet or Viggen, or whichever plane you're flying). That profile has the specific stuff for that particular aircraft which is real handy for organizing, and changing stuff for a particular plane. One nice thing about that approach is: Say, the Hornet uses a different key assignment for "Gear Down" - the plane specific command will override the generic one (since that profile was loaded later than the default one), so I can use the exact same command and it works as expected.
Finally, and this is another feature I love, you can Use VA to do other VA commands in a profile... Here's a fun Hornet example I use. I have commands for extending / retracting speedbrakes, catapult launch bar, refueling probe, etc. So, if I want to make a "4 Down Check" command that extends the cat bar, fueling probe, speedbrakes and tail hook, that command just has to refer to the already made commands for each of those operations, without having to actually re-define all the individual keypresses. Just say "4 Down Check", and it does the whole shebang. Say "4 Down Complete" and it goes ahead and retracts them all again. Handy...
Like the tagline for the computer language Perl, I find that VA lets you do simple stuff very easily (like simple keypress combinations), but it also makes some pretty complicated stuff possible as well....
It's without a doubt the best $10 I ever spent on computer software, bar none.
Once again, I'm glad you guys are starting to experiment with VA... Pretty soon, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it -- I find it as indispensable now as trackIR (or equiv).
Cheers,
4 ~S!~
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Love the ideas man! So is there a way to share profiles or basic profiles to custom edit or anything. So far I've only messed around with it in Elite Dangerous = simple commands to get use to its functions. It would be cool to have those separate profiles to mesh into so if somehow I end up making something that is totally awesome I could share that out. Still n00b on it's full functions.
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You can import and export profiles by using the + button. It will give you the options. (see pic)
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Definitely worth every penny to get the full version. I'm really enjoying approaching sling loads in the UH-1.
Initially I did have some problems with it recognizing some of my voice commands but I went through the Speech Recognition exercises (Control Panel, Ease of Access, and then Speech Recognition) and I haven't had any problems since. Thanks for the tip on the command sets/Nested Commands. I'm going try it out by consolidating all the various commands with CTLD for troop pickup and drop off.
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I bought the paid version of VA and am trying to set a few things up. In my controls page for DCS F-18, the keyboard column for "Wing Fold Control Handle-Pull" and "Wing Fold Control Handle-Fold" and "Flap Switch-Auto" and "Flap Switch-Full" are all empty. Does anyone know what the default keyboard binding is for these actions? What I am wanting to do is create voice commands where I just say "clean up" when I take off, "dirty up" when I'm preparing to land and "on the deck" when I land on the deck and all the correct actions take place and need these controls to do this.
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You can create your own key command in DCS and then assign it in VA
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I bought the paid version of VA and am trying to set a few things up. In my controls page for DCS F-18, the keyboard column for "Wing Fold Control Handle-Pull" and "Wing Fold Control Handle-Fold" and "Flap Switch-Auto" and "Flap Switch-Full" are all empty. Does anyone know what the default keyboard binding is for these actions? What I am wanting to do is create voice commands where I just say "clean up" when I take off, "dirty up" when I'm preparing to land and "on the deck" when I land on the deck and all the correct actions take place and need these controls to do this.
Hi Sparky,
Regarding the F18, most of the key bindings are empty by default. As Thud mentioned you have to make your own... Over time, I've done that for nearly all the systems, including the MFD buttons, basic systems (flaps, gear, speedbrake, etc.), weapons, and pretty much everything else. Once you've defined those keybindings (I noted mine in a little notebook, since there's probably more than 100 (the 3 MFDs have 20 buttons, each, for instance), *definitely* save them in a file also. At that point, you can set up VA commands to make use of all those bindings.
For me, now, the only time I touch the keyboard for the F18 is during taxi (S key - NWS/HI, and W - Wheel Brakes), or zooming the view in and out. There is a small handful of stuff I still click with the mouse (mostly radio freqs), but everything else is done by voice.
Regards,
4 ~S!~