Training Speech Recognition for Voice Attack

[Silmar]

I have just installed Voice Attack and really enjoying it when it works, but there in lies the issue. The Windows Speech Recognition, I have Win 10, does fine on some words and is hopeless with others. I have read through the standard Windows Speech Recognition texts a few times now, about 30 minutes worth, but they keep repeating. So I was wondering if there are any good tips people have for training the Speech Recognition in Windows 10 so that my Voice Attack will respond better?

In particular I am concerned that just saying the same words, from the same texts, to Windows isn't going to teach it how to interpret the words that don't appear in the texts at all. Anyone have any tips?

 

[D.G.Cerberus]

I have just installed Voice Attack and really enjoying it when it works, but there in lies the issue. The Windows Speech Recognition, I have Win 10, does fine on some words and is hopeless with others. I have read through the standard Windows Speech Recognition texts a few times now, about 30 minutes worth, but they keep repeating. So I was wondering if there are any good tips people have for training the Speech Recognition in Windows 10 so that my Voice Attack will respond better?

In particular I am concerned that just saying the same words, from the same texts, to Windows isn't going to teach it how to interpret the words that don't appear in the texts at all. Anyone have any tips?

TBH, I did exactly as you have done and works just fine - spent about 30 mins on the texts.

Couple of thoughts.
1) VA seems to be very sensitive to microphone input. Too close to your mouth for example and it picks up too much and you will find a lot of "and and and and" in the VA log (Which I recommend you keep open on another monitor by the way whilst you see what is going on and how the microphone is affected - or if you just have the one then open VA without Elite and start reading the commands)
2) You can play with the Disable Adaptive Recognition in settings if you are in a noisy environment
3) You can also play with minimum confidence level settings on commands too
4) Some people have said that having commands with multiple words actually works better than single word commands e.g. "Landing lights" instead of "Lights" however I have not found this and the majority of my commands are single words.

My Microphone is the built in one on a HyperX CloudII Gaming Headset btw - you can with this also alter the "volume" on the mic.

Good luck CMDR

EDIT - and make sure you have the check box ticked that enables multiple commands to be run simultaneously, otherwise VA will wait until all previous commands have executed before acting on the next command

 

[Kellan Fell]

I spent about 3 hours training the Windows Speech recognition.
Voice Attack seems to have problems with northern English accents, so I find myself sometimes having to repeat phrases, or talk like a 1950's news reader to get it to understand me. It is definitely better with multi-word command phrases, and having one of the built in voice packs is useful (though you may have to change either your keyboard mapping or the VA mappings to suit).

Mine has a tendency to interpret any extraneous noises as "engage Silent Running", which has damned near killed me a number of times now. Eventually I simply deactivated the key press macro behind any commands associated with Silent running (I'll control that myself, thank you), so now I just smile every time a sneeze or cough or even some background noise results in Astra saying "Engaging Silent Running".

I would also recommend setting sleep and wake up commands. If I say "Thank You" this tells VA to stop listening (again this just stops odd crap like lowering your landing gear in the middle of a fight), then "Astra, Wake up" commands VA to start listening again.
When you get used to it, it is an amazing assist to the game. I play in a VR headset, so everything I do now is controlled through the HOTAS and Voice Attack.

 

[Luniticisi]

I only use VA for pip management .. keeps it simple (and incredibly efficient!) .. everything else I need is mapped on my HOTAS