Getting back into ED / voice attack

deezdrama

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I played ED way back in early access days then again a year or so back with oculus rift.

I still had the game installed and my hotas x co figured using a popular cfg from reddit someone shared.....

Anyway, a buddy at work plays and wanted me to play with him so I transfered game to steam, bought horizons and also grabbed voice attack and the astra voice pack.

Hcs had instructions for installing the voicepack and its installed fine and mostly seems to work. I have the base games ai speking over the voicpack at times and ive read that voice attack depends on keybindings and the hcs voicepack instructions mention key bindings at the end but I can find no info, guides, or explanations of why i need to go in there and mess with keybindings.

Its starting to feel overwhelming and about to give up after spending money on horizons,voice attack, and a voice pack.

Any suggestions?
 
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Flimley

Flimley
Regarding the game voice talking over the VA profile voice, the various in game voices can be switched off via the audio menu. It’s quite comprehensive so you will be assured to find any overlaps in voices and switch them off.
One good thing to do in general is to go into control panel and fire up the speech trainer, and do a session on that. Then Windows will hear your particular voice better.
Try their forum at http://forum.hcsvoicepacks.com/ and throw out some specific questions, normally matters can be resolved quite quickly.


Oh yes, regarding key binds and voice attack...if you have updated to the singularity?. VA now detects your keybinds in the game and produces a file on your desktop which informs you as to what binds are missing. so go into the game menu and add those in so VA then has key presses.

Flimley
 
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Faded Glory

Faded Glory
I think what you are referring to is setting up the VoiceAttack commands, because until you have done that neither your spoken commands or the voice pack commands will actually trigger anything.

If that's the case, open up VoiceAttack, create a profile and start creating commands. For example, if you use the J key to jump to Hyperspace, and you want your voice to trigger that by saying "Jump to Hyperspace", you create a VA command with the spoken command and configure VA to press the J key for you. I don't use voice packs, but I presume that if you want a voice pack command to trigger it you will type that command in, and I imagine there are instructions with the voice pack on how to tie in their commands with VA.

Flimley's advice to run the speech recognition software training in windows is excellent. VoiceAttack works much better after you have done that.
 

deezdrama

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Faded Glory said:
I think what you are referring to is setting up the VoiceAttack commands, because until you have done that neither your spoken commands or the voice pack commands will actually trigger anything.

If that's the case, open up VoiceAttack, create a profile and start creating commands. For example, if you use the J key to jump to Hyperspace, and you want your voice to trigger that by saying "Jump to Hyperspace", you create a VA command with the spoken command and configure VA to press the J key for you. I don't use voice packs, but I presume that if you want a voice pack command to trigger it you will type that command in, and I imagine there are instructions with the voice pack on how to tie in their commands with VA.

Flimley's advice to run the speech recognition software training in windows is excellent. VoiceAttack works much better after you have done that.
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Sorry if I wasnt descriptive in my original post, I was driving lol.

I just bought voice attack and the astra voice pack last night. It came with the singularity profile. All the basic commands I tried seem to work fine without win10 voice training although I will do this shortly.
The issues I had were when shifting or balancing power commands it seemed to keep cycling power into different cattegories over and over. I think it may of been the ai hearing itself speak since Im using mic and speakers since my boy confiscated my headset lol.

I thought I watched vids where the person calls out "computer" or "astra" or whichever voice pack name and the ai would reply "yes commander" .... I dont get that response.
Ive tested "launch, lights, landing gear, hardpoints, power to ****, galactapedia, galaxy map, left panel, right panel, look ahead, ......
All seem to work fine except for instance if I call for power to shift to weapons, when the ai speaks power shifting to weapons I think the mic picks up on the words "power to" and just keeps randomly shifting power around.

Other than that everything seems to work which had me confused because my buddy said I need to setup all my key binds. Maybe he isnt using singularity and had to manually do this?

Is astra suppossed to reply if I call her name?



Someone mentioned with singularity that it will automatically detect my keybinds and write a word doc for the ones I need to set. Where can I find this file at?


Maybe im just a noob all over again and just need to get in there and play, was just perplexed why I kept reading about keybinds and my buddy said same thing, then I couldnt find any info about it


thanks all!
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Ah.. OK. :)

It sounds more like a voice pack issue then if you already have VA setup with commands, and unfortunately I cannot help you there, sorry.

Maybe a trip to the HCS forums will help you.

Good luck. I'm sure you will find ED in VR well worth the frustration. It's a great way to experience the game. :)
 

deezdrama

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Found the missing binds doc.... right on the desktop duh...lol

Theres 50 - 60 missing binds

I noticed all the divert power binds are missing so that could be why I had issues with that, but I also know I have those functions bound to a modifier key and hat switches on my stick so not sure why they are listed as unbound.
Ill just have to mess with it some I guess
 

deezdrama

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The install manual that came with the voice pack was fine, but it said to make sure and set all keybinds but then just leaves you to figure it out on your own.
All the videos or articles I find say they are obsolete so dont know what to do.

I have a hotas x setup with a config file that was popular on the web for this stick,
Most of the functions that it says are missing keybinds are all already bound to my hotas x...... do I just need to randomly assign a secondary keyboard keybind for all of them?
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
deezdrama said:
The install manual that came with the voice pack was fine, but it said to make sure and set all keybinds but then just leaves you to figure it out on your own.
All the videos or articles I find say they are obsolete so dont know what to do.

I have a hotas x setup with a config file that was popular on the web for this stick,
Most of the functions that it says are missing keybinds are all already bound to my hotas x...... do I just need to randomly assign a secondary keyboard keybind for all of them?
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VoiceAttack does allow you to use HOTAS bindings, but certainly you can simply add a second (keyboard) binding in ED and then use that with VA. I certainly have done that for quite a few things, and not bothered to use HOTAS bindings.
 

A D

A D
deezdrama said:
I played ED way back in early access days then again a year or so back with oculus rift.

I still had the game installed and my hotas x co figured using a popular cfg from reddit someone shared.....

Anyway, a buddy at work plays and wanted me to play with him so I transfered game to steam, bought horizons and also grabbed voice attack and the astra voice pack.

Hcs had instructions for installing the voicepack and its installed fine and mostly seems to work. I have the base games ai speking over the voicpack at times and ive read that voice attack depends on keybindings and the hcs voicepack instructions mention key bindings at the end but I can find no info, guides, or explanations of why i need to go in there and mess with keybindings.

Its starting to feel overwhelming and about to give up after spending money on horizons,voice attack, and a voice pack.

Any suggestions?
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You shouldn't have any problem the HSC "Singularity" voice pack as it sets all the bindings automatically (i.e. no longer have to go through the ED settings and voice map them). It even reports the keys that are not bound (via a text file which shows up as a desktop icon).

However, if you're still having problems, from memory the HSC voice pack has a command (something like "import my control settings") which causes the HSC voice pack to retrieve and adopt the key bindings that you have set for ED (specifically for your controller).
 

Kingston@#

Kingston@#
couple of things to check with VA. make sure its running with admin rights. goto VA file location, right click on program exe, properties, compatibility and tick run with admin rights.
desktop mic is not good enough. headset is prefered. mic needs to be 1 inch from mouth.
mic should be around 90% gain any lower and it wont pickup clearly what your saying.
don't shout, speak normally.
train speech recognition.
if you had a broard accent, start up speech recognition there is an option for you to record and add to libary how you say things.
 

tony123

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To OP, I love the voice packs it makes the game so much easier. With the standard set up you get with it you have full but basic control over your ship. You can programme VP via VA to make more complex commands but this takes time and there are videos on how to do that.
Your problems are you need to do voice recognition otherwise va & vp`s wont work properly, I have done the basic and first step in voice recognition, still sometime va doesnt work, so keep training your computer to understand your voice.

Follow this link :- http://forum.hcsvoicepacks.com/foru...452-hcs-customizer-program-guides-by-rookfett
This is the best video and a step by step in setting up VA, VP`s, configuration and multi crew vp setup. These videos are fool proof lol, I am not a programmer nor an expert on adding mods etc, these videos helped me to set up everything in a clear step by step way and I was also able to make advanced changes to VA to make it more immersive, if I wasnt told about the videos I wouldnt know how to properly configure VA and packs and I would still be stuck with the basic set up of VA.
For your problem with over riding voices see the videos. I have 7.1 speakers and headset microphone I dont have any problems of cross over voices from speakers to mic and with a proper set up there are no cross overs of the ship main voice and voice pack ai.

For proper key bindings via VA you need to say " protocol override customize my settings". Then use the keybind creator. There is a video on the above link on how to do this, and it removes all missing key binds
 
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NW3

NW3
A D said:
...the HSC voice pack has a command (something like "import my control settings") which causes the HSC voice pack to retrieve and adopt the key bindings that you have set for ED (specifically for your controller).
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That's been disabled in the latest voice packs. Make sure your key bindings (in ED) have values in the first column. It's OK to have extra bindings in the second column, but the voice pack only reads the first column.
 

tony123

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NW3 said:
That's been disabled in the latest voice packs. Make sure your key bindings (in ED) have values in the first column. It's OK to have extra bindings in the second column, but the voice pack only reads the first column.
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not true use you need to say " protocol override customize my settings". Then use the keybind creator
 

Rock Hunter

Rock Hunter
I've only ever done my keybinds via the in-game menu. Singularity (the HCS voicepack profile for all character profiles) will read those keybinds and apply them. You don't need to have a certain key for a certain command e.g. L for Landing Gear as the Singularity profile will read whatever you've set your keys to command. All in-game menu key bind inputs in the left column and if you use a HOTAS you can use the right hand column to set particular buttons to individual commands. HCS have done a superb job of making this very simple with the new(ish) Singularity profile.


Voice Recognition training is a must, I tend to do both Windows training sessions and will also re-train using those training sessions every one or two months. If I unplug my headset I'll retrain when I plug it back in too just to ensure I give the packs the best chance to hear me. I tried various mics as I really wanted sound through my speakers but found a desktop mounted mic (3.5mm jack) and a clip on USB mic both picked up sound from my speakers way too easily and this affected commands with VP. I found a headset mic with no earpiece (kind of a call-centre type mic) which worked pretty well but was also a 3.5mm jack and I've found nothing truly beats a gaming headset for clarity. Sound levels are worth working out for yourself. I often have music, radio or TV playing so I have to get the balance right so that it picks up my commands but nothing else - how noisy or quiet the immediate environment is will make a massive difference.


I've used their forums for posting help requests and its excellent but you can also get help via their Discord (details on their website) which has always been the best way to get specific help.
 
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